From: MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu
Subject: Re: Review: OS/2 2.1 BETA.
Organization: CARD
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 16:40:09 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.191023.15243@muddcs.claremont.edu>                                                                                              
ddulay@jarthur.claremont.edu (Daniel Dulay) writes:                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                      
>In article <1992Sep28.055510.1648@nuscc.nus.sg>                                                                                                      
>matcsp@nuscc.nus.sg (Chan Shih-Ping) writes:                                                                                                         
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>>The OS/2 requester for LAN Server 2.0 comes with "Virtual LAN support"                                                                              
>>which allows DOS requester to be installed in VDM and use one adapter.                                                                              
>>Can other DOS protocol stacks (NDIS ones to be precise) also use this                                                                               
>>Virtual LAN support, and if so how? (I am thinking of protocol stacks                                                                               
>>like NBP and XNSTP which come with 3COM 3+Open).  I need these DOS                                                                                  
>>protocols to coexist with OS/2 LAN requester.  Thanks                                                                                               
>>(I'm confused here - is this the same as asking for virtual NDIS support from                                                                       
>>the ethernet board driver?)                                                                                                                         
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>>Shih-Ping Chan                                                                                                                                      
>>matcsp@nuscc.nus.sg                                                                                                                                 
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>LS 2.0 Requester comes with a Virtual NETBIOS interface.  There is no Virtual N                                                                      
>DIS.  Any program that rides on top of DOS NETBIOS should work in the OS/2                                                                           
>DOS box on the same network adapter as OS/2 LS Req.  IBM DOS LAN Req. is a NETB                                                                      
>IOS application, so we can run multiple copies of this under OS/2.                                                                                   
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>LS 3.0 is coming with a new Virtual driver, the 802.2 Virtual driver.  This wil                                                                      
>l allow DOS applications that ride on top of 802.2 to function in a OS/2 DOS                                                                         
>box.  LS 3.0 will also come with a Virtual DOS LAN Requester API and Interupt                                                                        
>support in a DOS box.  This will reduce the need to have the real DLR to be                                                                          
>running in a DOS box, because the virtual one is there.                                                                                              
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>Do NBP or XNSTP ride on top of 802.2 standard? If so it may work with LS 3.0 be                                                                      
>ta can be ordered from 800-IBM-3040.                                                                                                                 
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>Mike Long                                                                                                                                            
>Iowa State University