Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: KA9Q and NCSA Telnet Question Message-ID: Date: 4 Jan 90 04:29:33 GMT References: <389@ai.etl.army.mil> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Distribution: na Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 33 In-reply-to: john@ai.etl.army.mil's message of 3 Jan 90 21:19:16 GMT In article <389@ai.etl.army.mil> john@ai.etl.army.mil (John Benton) writes: I have been comparing the features of KA9Q and NCSA Telnet and I have several questions that I hope someone will be able to answer so that I can make a decision on which system we should use. (1) Can the POP3 software from Clarkson University be used with NCSA Telnet. That's Clemson University. No, it's designed to work with PC-IP. (2) KA9Q has SMPT mail support but how does it handle the problem that your PC may not be turned on (or may be performing some other task) when mail arrives for your PC. Is a PC server required. That's SMTP. You've just spotted with big flaw in using SMTP to transfer mail -- both sides have to be up at the same time. Yes, you need a server. And it should probably have a POP[23] server so that you can use a POP[23] client to fetch the mail. (3) Are there performance penalties in using Russ Nelson's Packet Driver with NCSA compared to using NCSA's built-in driver support. You can go either way with the WD8003 card but only the packet driver supports 3C503, NE1000, etc. Good question. I don't use NCSA Telnet all that much. I can assert that there won't be much, if any, penalty with KA9Q. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667 Live up to the light thou hast, and more will be granted thee. A recession now appears more than 2 years away -- John D. Mathon, 4 Oct 1989. I think killing is value-neutral in and of itself. -- Gary Strand, 8 Nov 1989. Liberals run this country, by and large. -- Clayton Cramer, 20 Nov 1989. Shut up and mind your Canadian business, you meddlesome foreigner. -- TK, 23 N.