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From: ken@nika.UUCP (Ken Pelletier)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Sharing modems with LWP for DOS
Date: 9 Nov 92 18:10:39 GMT
Reply-To: nika!nika.com!ken@uunet.uu.net
Organization: The Internet

This should clarify a question that I posted last week:

Does anyone know of a product that would allow me to make a pool of  
modems, which are connected to a UNIX box, available to a number of  
PC's running TCP/IP (Lan Workplace for DOS).  Novell netware has a  
product called NACS (Netware Async Comm. Server) that does this, and  
I'm looking for a similar capability w/TCP/IP.  The PC's s/b able to  
run a DOS program that talks to the modem as if it were attached to a  
serial port (not just telnet to the UNIX box and use tip).  Anyone  
seen/heard of such a thing?

Thanks!

Ken Pelletier (ken@nika.com)
NiKA Software, Inc.
From: cggarrat@csir.co.za (Craig Goble-Garratt)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: SMC and ODI
Date: 6 Nov 1992 07:52:41 GMT
Organization: C.S.I.R.
NNTP-Posting-Host: cggarrat.csir.co.za

We are trying to configure workstations, using SMC cards,
to use the ODI setup. We have fairly high expectations from
this setup (or do we?) and would like to use it in the 
following manner:

        Logical board #1: IPX
        Logical board #2: IP

We would use the board #1 to connect to our NOVELL file 
severs and we would want to use board #2 to connect to
our UNIX boxes. In order to connect to the UNIX boxes 
we use PATHWAY's telnet and this works fine. However,
in general, we use TRUMPET to connect to our news server
and this obviously requires ODIPKT in order to run it on 
top of the ODI driver. This can be made to work as well.

WHAT'S THE PROBLEM YOU MAY ASK?

Well, we would like to use both PATHWAY and the ODIPKT 
interface without having to re-configure our workstaions
in between their usage. However, once the PATHWAY kernel,
pwtcp.exe, has been loaded it seems to lock up logical 
board #2 and therefore the ODIPKT interface doesn't work. 
In order to make it work we must first remove the PATHWAY
kernel. In a DOS this is not too much of a problem but
if one is using Windows 3.x then one must load the kernel
before starting up Windows and therefore while within
Windows one cannot use the ODIPKT interface.

Could anybody shed some light on this problem for me?
If so please e-mail me or post to this group.

Thanks in advance,
Craig.

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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: dgj2y@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (David Glen Jacobowitz)
Subject: Re: SLIP, serial line, HELP!!!!!!! (DVX)
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:12:55 GMT

In article <1dfev8INN4vm@gap.caltech.edu> egrayver@cco.caltech.edu (Eugene Grayver) writes:
>I would like to use DVX to use X-windows on a pc.  However, I can not
>seem to make DVX use my serial connection.  I am connected from a 
>college dorm room to a 19.2 serial line.  I have so far found out that 
>I need a SLIP.  What is it?  I have seen many on ftp sites; are
>they all the same?  What else do I need to have tcp-ip on my PC?
>Also, are there any shareware programs that will let me use X-windows on a 
>PC besides DesqView/X.  If there are, how can I get one.
>Thanks
>Please reply by e-mail to
>egrayver@punisher.cco.caltech.edu
>

	I need this sort of information, too. Is there a FAQ for this
group or what? I have been reading awhile. Anyway, I have ka9q and
NCSa telnet available to me. Also have a 14.k modem with compression
and I have dialup access to router that supports slip. Now how do I
glue this stuff together????

				david g jacobowitz
				dgj2y@virginia.edu
From: pmod@pfbs.philips.se (Par-Mikael Odsater)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Wollongong TCP/IP vs. netBEUI
Date: 7 Nov 92 17:30:26 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment BCFI AB, Sweden

I would like to know the performance difference between
Wollongong TCP/IP and netBEUI that comes with MS-LAN Man.
If someone does know anything, PLEASE mail me.
I've heard that it should be possible to get them equal
but I don't think it's possible.

Waiting for info.

/P-M
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                                    | Box 904
 pmod@pfbs.philips.se               | S-175 29 Jarfalla, Sweden 
 ..!mcsun!seunet!dakotaS!pmod@pfbs  | Phone: +46 8 7594928, Fax: +46 8 7398676
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: luigi@pical2.uucp (Luigi Rizzo)
Subject: Re: ms-dos tar w/rmt protocol (& tcp) ?
Reply-To: luigi@iet.unipi.it
Organization: Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Univ. di Pisa (ITALY)
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 07:50:48 GMT

In article <BxKD8B.G3p@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> erick@sunee.uwaterloo.ca (Erick Engelke) writes:

...

>
>The best free implementation I have heard of was written by some fellows
>at Universita' di Pisa.  It's based on GNU TAR and Luigi Rizzo's work
>on WATTCP.  Sorry for missing the other credits, I can't seem to find
>any docs.
>
>You can pick up a copy in:
>	sunee.uwaterloo.ca : pub/wattcp/pisa_tar.tar
>

or by anonymous ftp on gwd2i.cnuce.cnr.it : pub/tar920630b.tar.Z

About 'The best free implementation' ... let's say it works, although
it's not as stable and reliable as I'd like to :) Thanks Erick...

	Luigi
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email: luigi@iet.unipi.it       Universita' di Pisa
tel: +39-50-568533              via Diotisalvi 2, 56124 PISA (Italy)
fax: +39-50-568522
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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: dbasinge@ucs.indiana.edu (D. Michael Basinger)
Subject: WINPKT: Where is the latest version
Organization: Indiana University
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 16:57:59 GMT

Where Can I find the latest version of WINPKT.

Mike
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From: ad@fermi.wustl.edu (Andrew Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: EXOS 205T and thin-wire Ethernet?
Date: 6 Nov 1992 21:39:48 GMT
Organization: Washington University Astrophysics
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: fermi.wustl.edu


We have an old Excelan EXOS205T ethernet card which works fine hooked up via
thick ethernet cable. We are using the Excelan NDIS driver and J. Doupnik's
dis_pkt9.dos MAC/DIS to packet driver converter, so we can use Clarkson's
telbin, ftpbin etc. The problem is we want to use thin ethernet cable, so we
set the 7 jumpers on the card for thin-net and hook up the coax cable, but
now we can no longer make a telnet or ftp connection. The board diagnostics
pass OK and the drivers load. The same coax cable works fine hooked up to a
different brand board in another computer.

Anyone know what's going on?

Thanks,
Andrew J. Davis
Washington U. Physics Dept.
St. Louis MO 63130
ad@cosray.wustl.edu
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Native Windows PopMail Client?
From: Michel.Davidoff@sonoma.edu (Michel Davidoff)
Date: 11 Nov 92 09:28:35 PST
Organization: Sonoma state university

In article <ddrg.721151782@cunews> ddrg@alfred.carleton.ca (Duncan Glendinning) writes:
>Subject: Native Windows PopMail Client?
>From: ddrg@alfred.carleton.ca (Duncan Glendinning)
>Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 15:56:22 GMT
>I'm sorry if this question has been asked a million times before, but I can't
>seem to locate a FAQ list.  I'd like to know if there exists a native
>ms-windows popmail client that sits on top of a packet driver.  Our mac users
>are really happy with their interface, but our pc users aren't (because they
>like to sit in windows all day).
>
>Thanks...  duncan
Yes, It's called WinQVtnet and it's also a Telnet/FTP/NewsReader/POP3
Can find it at ftp.cica.indiana.edu in the directory /pub/win3/upload.
Current version is 2.85

Thank You
Michel Davidoff
E-Mail Michel.Davidoff@Sonoma.edu
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: wihuri@polaris.utu.fi (Pauli Wihuri)
Subject: SMTP <--> MHS
Keywords: LANtastic FT MHS XGATE
Organization: University of Turku, Finland
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 07:43:44 GMT

Trying again...

I am trying to build email-connection from PC's to Unix with the
following software:

	MS-DOS 5.0 
	Windows 3.1
	LANtastic 4.1 (and for Windows)
	Futurus Team
	MHS version 1.5M (Action Technologies; Nick Systems)
	XGate 1.40 (Dave Frailey)
	SUN sparcserver 690

Has anyone done (or at least tried to do) anything similar to this?
Please lead the horse to knowledge (I am not saying that this horse is
bright so you may have to explain with details...) and I promise that
I will drink.

More information and thoughts:

We have almost 1500 MS-DOS microcomputers in ethernet using LANtastic
(Artisoft) for LAN resources and NCSA Telnet, FTP etc for mainframes
(SUN Unix, VAX VMS).

When people want to use email, they have to remove LANtastic from
memory (batchfiles do it) and then connect into mainframe (batchfiles
do it also). They have to study the operating systems and editors like
Unix, emacs, VMS, eve, ... for email.

I have received Futurus Team (former Right Hand Man by ?) and
MHS-server software (Action Technologies) for testing email into
internet from PC's. I have also received XGATE-software (Dave Frailey)
in order to make a gateway into Unix-world using SMTP.

I have managed to install Futurus Team and MHS-software into our
LANtastic-server and they work fine, but the XGate refuses to be
installed properly: It says that there is 'No Active File Server'.

I know that XGate is for Novell and Charon, but I heard that someone
has done with it a gateway that works.

Thanks in advance,

	Pauli Wihuri
	Computing Centre
	University of Turku
	Finland
From: ken@nika.UUCP (Ken Pelletier)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: (how) Can I share modems w/ Lan Workplace?
Date: 5 Nov 92 18:22:55 GMT
Reply-To: nika!nika.com!ken@uunet.uu.net
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

I use Lan Workplace for DOS with Beame and Whiteside NFS connected to  
an RS/6000.  I have a need to share a single modem among PC's using  
this setup in the style that Netware does, except that the modem is  
connected to a tty on the UNIX box.

I've never seen any software that purported to do this, but it seems  
as if it s/b possible.  Can anyone shed any light on this for me?

I'll summarize.

Thanks!

--
Ken Pelletier
NiKA Software, Inc.
Arlington, MA
From: ivos@arwen.ics.muni.cs (Ivo Cernohlavek)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Packet driver reentrancy
Date: 6 Nov 92 19:39:14 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet
X-Unparsable-Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 19:54:16 CET

>    Are packet drivers supposed to be reentrant ?
>
> It's not clear.

Why ? Please, correct me, if i'm wrong, but if the packet driver
has to support multiple network stacks
(such as IP, IPX, ...), and the stacks may be TSRs, activated from
various events, potentially caused also by interrupts from any sources,
it must be able to process a call from one stack, while processing
call from another stack is in progress.
Maybe some drivers don't really solve such situation, but such
driver doesn't do its job correctly.
What about CRYNWR drivers ;-)  ( As i have studied (and used) code
of crynwr packet driver skeleton, i hope, that it IS reentrant).

>    In particular, is is guaranteed to be safe to call a p.d's send routine
>    whilst executing in a receiver upcall ?
>
> No.  Nonetheless, it works on many packet drivers...

I agree. But it's something a little bit different from pure REENTRANCY,
or it's a VERY SPECIAL kind of REENTRANCY.
With some drivers (such as ETHERSLIP, when processing ARP packet),
it can cause RECURSIVE call.

Ivo Cernohlavek, Institute of Computer Science, Masaryk University,
                 Brno, Czechoslovakia
ivos@ics.muni.cs
From: micjrs@mica.mic.ki.se (Richard Soderberg, MD)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: snmp under dos
Date: 9 Nov 92 11:46:52 GMT
Organization: The Karolinska Institute, Sweden
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
X-XXMessage-ID: <A724104FCD017A15@bart.mic.ki.se>
X-XXDate: Mon, 9 Nov 92 11:55:43 GMT

I am looking for a simple snmp implementation running undr DOS, 
preferably outputting to StdOyt so as to allow redirection for
later processing by some application
TIA
/RS
From: mtayler@pilot.njin.net (Mark Tayler)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Need Packet Driver for MCA card
Keywords: packet driver, wd8003e
Date: 7 Nov 92 04:10:53 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


I am having a problem configuring my ethernet card on a PS/2 model 80

I have an SMC 16 bit ethernet card.
When I run the diagnostics I get the following:

	8013WP/A
	BASE I/O	=0800
	IRQ INT	 	=3
	RAM		=16k
	RAM Address	=D8000
	ROM		=Disabled
	ROM Address	=C0000

	The card is in Slot 5

I am using the wd8003e.com (Nov 91) driver with the following setup:

wd8003e 0x60 -o 0x3 0x0800 0xD8000

The packet driver does not load.

If anybody has a solution to this problem please e-mail it to me.
All and any help is very appriciated.

****************************************************************************
*  Mark L. Tayler                               System Administrator:      *
*  mtayler@pilot.njin.net                       County College of Morris   *
*                                               (201) 328-5772    (VOICE)  *
*                                               (201) 328-5058    (DATA)   *
*                                               No Net Access Yet !!!!     *
****************************************************************************
From: duval@elpp1.epfl.ch (Basil P. Duval EPFL - CRPP 1015 Lausanne CH)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Fragmented IP packets: any PD implementations?
Date: 12 Nov 92 10:15:17 GMT
Reply-To: DUVAL@ELPP1.EPFL.CH
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne


Hello there,
	I suffered from fragmentaed packets from a SLIP link from a VAX to a
MAC (Yes I know this is not for Macs).
	I was trying to use the NCSA telnet package and discovered that they
had not yet implemented the IP defragmentation. The VAX vendor informed me
that defragmentation was not optional in IP packet handling.....
	Result: I modified ip.c in the NCSA package to defragment packets
by putting the defragmented pieces back together before sending them to the
uppper level.

	I see little reason why this code could not be put into the PC version
if it too does not have IP defragmentation.

	Why not cantact NCSA ??

Basil P. DUVAL
EPFL/CRPP
1015 Bassenges
Lausanne, Switzerland
Email: DUVAL@ELPP1.EPFL.CH
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System)
Subject: qvtnet 3.0 
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 19:57:03 GMT

Hi all,

I found the new version (3.0) of qvtnet re-uploaded today, still in
the uploads dir on cica.  I got it and gave it a test. It worked fine.


Jian
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: bielski@skyler.mavd.honeywell.com (Walt Bielski)
Subject: QVT/Net 3.0 FTP problems
Organization: Honeywell Systems & Research Center
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 23:32:42 GMT

Has anyone else seen a severe decrease (order of magnitude) in throughput
for FTP transfers under the new version of WinQVT/Net (3.0)? I was seeing
local transfer rates in the 100+ Kbytes/sec range using 2.85 and earlier
(I have a 486-50 with an NE-2000 clone). Now I am lucky to get better than
6 Kbytes/sec :-(. I have tried using the default TCP tuning parameters and
also setting them to what they were in my old .rc file. The funny part of
this is that with hash marks on, I notice multi-second pauses between new
hash marks being added, but the transmit light on my net card keeps blinking
furiously. No error messages are displayed in the console during this. If I
switch back to version 2.85 (re-booting to install the old pktint.com),
transfer rates return to normal. This eliminates problems with the net card,
drivers, network loading, etc. being the cause. Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks in advance.

Walt Bielski (bielski@skyler.mavd.honeywell.com)

My views, not Honeywell's.
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: losburn@teal.csn.org (Lynn Osburn)
Subject: routed message
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 20:49:28 GMT

Running tcpip 1.2.1 on os/2 ee, when I start tcpip the routed window
contains the following:

	SIOCADDRT: File exists

What file?  Why does this fail?  I haven't found this message in a message
book yet.  Can someone please enlighten me?

Thanks,
-Lynn    losburn@csn.org
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*IX Systems Guy                    Whatever hits the fan probably won't
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303-843-8000 x8162
From: trier@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Stephen C. Trier)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Fragmented IP packets: any PD implementations?
Date: 10 Nov 1992 03:53:09 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: odin.ins.cwru.edu

In article <BxH4xy.Euu@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz> davis@chem.canterbury.ac.nz writes:
>try ftping from Mac's on appletalk talking MacTCP via a pcrouter - or using
>slip , both of these result in fragmentation.

I've been fortunate enough to avoid the former, and the latter is a myth.
SLIP causes fragments on TCP connections only if the SLIP connection is
poorly configured.

-- 
Stephen Trier                                     
Network Services Engineering, IRIS/INS/Telecom    
Case Western Reserve University                   
trier@ins.cwru.edu
From: barilj@ere.umontreal.ca (Baril Jude)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: FTP Software e-mail address wanted
Date: 11 Nov 92 12:48:00 GMT
Organization: The Internet

===> Extrait du message de Gary A. Hildebrand
> 
> All,
> 
> I'm looking for the e-mail address for FTP Software Technical Support, if
> it exists.  Judging by their product line and the existence of such
> addresses for other companies (like Borland and Quarterdeck), I suspect
> they do have one.  We just got their 2.1 PC/TCP software, and there isn't
> even so much as a telephone number in their 1000+ page manual.
> 

	You could ask for support at the following address:

		support@ftp.com

	It may take a while to get an answer, but it works.

> Thanks in advance,

__

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barilj@ERE.UMontreal.CA     sur mon p'tit    _ \<,_      Services Informatiques
(514)343-6111 ext: 5268     bicycle ..."    (_)/ (_)     Universite de Montreal
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: TN3270 with Extended Attribute support?
From: hauser_s@eis.dofasco.ca
Date: 9 Nov 92 13:43:26 GMT
Organization: Dofasco Inc, Hamilton, Ont. Can.
Nntp-Posting-User: hauser_s


	I am looking for a public domain implementation of TN3270 which
supports extended attributes.  The CUTCP TN3270 package supports most of our
users, but some require extended attributes.

Please respond by mail if you know of any.

Thanks in advance.
_______________________________________________________________________________
Steve Hauser                                            hauser_s@eis.dofasco.ca
Assoc. Platform Integration Engineer              hauser@photon.eng.mcmaster.ca
Dofasco Inc                                                      (416) 544-3761

Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: silano@newton.cs.jhu.edu (Mike Silano)
Subject: Crynwr WD8003e.com bugs?
Summary: intermittant keyboard failure on some bios's?
Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 18:59:33 GMT

Hi all.

I'm using version 10.7.1 (I think - actual file date and time 
is : wd8003e.com 6788 01-28-92 10:57p)

On some of our machines (generally cheap AT clones) we experience an
intermittent keyboard failure - the keyboard simply freaks out. 
The only solution is to reboot.  

This does not happen on some of our "better" machines (AST, etc).

I recall seeing a posted bug-fix for this version of the 
drivers.  Can someone direct me do it or repost it?

Thanks

-Mike Silano
From: sastdr@torpid.unx.sas.com (Thomas David Rivers)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: 3C503 settings?
Date: 9 Nov 92 02:32:50 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.


  Well, thanks for all the helpful replies; but I spent some
 time this weekend running the packet drivers and deteremined
 that I inherited a 3c501 - not a 3c503.  

  Things are working great now; in that I got lucky and the
 memory address happened to be what the packet driver expected (0x300).

  If someone has a second, could you please send me information as
 to the memory settings, and what values of what jumpers cause what -
 just for future reference.

    - Thanks -
  - Dave Rivers -
 (rivers@ponds.uucp (home))
 (sastdr@unx.sas.com (work))
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From: jrd@cc.usu.edu (Joe Doupnik)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Fragmented IP packets: any PD implementations?
Date: 8 Nov 92 22:44:15 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

In article <1992Nov8.203621.6902@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, dpayne@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dirk Payne) writes:
> I have reviewed WATTCP, PCIP, and both CUTCP and NCSA's versions of telnet
> but none of these implemetations handle IP fragments. In order to be a "real"
> TCP/IP package (connected to the "real" world) fragments cannot be ejected
> out of hand.
> 
> Has anyone implemented IP fragment handling in any of the above mentioned
> products? My personal favorite is WATTCP, but I would be willing to entertain
> any PD implementation that handles frags. My only alternative is to roll my
> own :-(.
> 
> Please mail responses to dpay@gwl.com (preferable to dpayne@nyx.cs.du.edu).
> If there is interest, I can post a summary.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> 	--- Dirk
---------------
	Real DOS TCP/IP packages which don't fragment reassembly, and that
means most of them, do two things. They set the do not fragment flag in
the TCP Options area and they set the MSS to be 534 bytes or less to let
99% of the long distance routers handle the frame without needing to fragment.
This leaves UDP packets, and they should be kept short.
	As mentioned by another reader, frag reassembly is memory hungry
and a performance limiter for reassembly busywork.
	Please note that Wollongong's TCP/IP for VMS has an old bug which
ignores the do not frag flag in the TCP Options field, and they have a
corrective patch.
	The only Public Domain TCP/IP packages I am aware of are PC/IP and
NCSA Telnet. The others you mentioned are copyrighted.
	Joe D.