From: MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu
Subject: Re: DOS packet drivers, NDIS and Token-Ring
Organization: CARD
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 07:34:28 GMT

In article <92239.103636A6054OS2@HASARA11.BITNET>                                                                                                     
A6054OS2@HASARA11.BITNET writes:                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                      
>I'm using OS/2 2.0 and have TCP/IP 1.2 installed with the IBMTOK MAC                                                                                 
>driver.                                                                                                                                              
>Since programs like Archie can only be used with ethernet packet drivers                                                                             
>(those progs are based on CUTE or NCSA telnet), I can't use these Network                                                                            
>Information Retrieval progs.                                                                                                                         
>However I lately read something about converting packet drivers to NDIS. Is                                                                          
>that possible and how? Or is there some info available on this topic? Or other                                                                       
>possibilities to use those programs?                                                                                                                 
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>All help is very much appreciated,                                                                                                                   
>                                                                                                                                                     
>Rachid Tebbal                                                                                                                                        
>University of Amsterdam                                                                                                                              
>Department of Information Systems                                                                                                                    
>The Netherlands.                                                                                                                                     
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Right now I am running the IBMTOKEN.COM packet driver and the IBM OS/2 LAN Requ                                                                       
ester and CUTCP all at the same time all on the same token ring adapter.                                                                              
You will first need the OS/2 NTS/2 Beta LAPS disks, they can be gotten from                                                                           
800-IBM-3040 (I see you are international, sorry for the 800 number).  This new                                                                       
 version of LAPS (or NTS/2?) comes with a Virtual IEEE 802.2 driver for DOS                                                                           
boxes.  Within LAPS I changed the System Key from its default of 0 to 0002 in t                                                                       
he OS/2 configuration for IEEE 802.2.  Then open the DOS box, and use the comma                                                                       
nd C:\IBMCOM\LTSVCFG S=16 C=18 N1=1 D=1.  Then load the IBMTOKEN.COM packet                                                                           
 driver, then load CUTCP, or NCSA, or whatever.                                                                                                       
This Virtual 802.2 looks to be very powerful at allowing OS/2 to share network                                                                        
adapter resources with DOS Network packet drivers that are written to 802.2.                                                                          
Mike Long                                                                                                                                             
Iowa State University                                                                                                                                 
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