HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: HDK@psuvm.psu.edu (H. D. Knoble)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: CU/NCSA Telnet/SLIP8250 Status Line
Date: 16 Dec 92 13:24:45 GMT
Organization: Penn State University


Can anyone tell us what the flashing numbers on the Clarkson TN3270/Telnet
status line are? These appear when using the SLIP8250 packet driver each
time some screen action (e.g. scrolling) takes place. We're guessing that
these are sizes of buffers or packets but are looking for a more exact
verification.                    Thanks.
From: uclywss@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Warwick Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Transfer Speeds from PC to SPARC 10
Date: 18 Dec 92 15:45:21 GMT
Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium


We need to periodically copy 1 gigabyte files from a PC to Sun SPARC 10's.
NFS, FTP and RCP give painfully slow transfer rates for this size of file,
typically 85 - 160 kbytes/sec.

The Sun SPARC 10's are model 30 workstations giving file transfer speeds 
on local disk of 670 Kbytes/sec, and 1.2 Mbytes/sec between them over 
the Ethernet using FTP.

The PC is a 486 33Mhz using a BICC 16 bit Ethernet card with MPS 4.2 
and PCNFS 4.0. File transfer speed on its local disk is 250 Kbytes/sec


Can anyone tell me:-

If it is possible to make such a PC transfer binary files faster to a SPARC 10
using Ethernet, and if so, how, and what is the maximum transfer rate 
possible. 500 Kbytes/sec would be the minimum acceptable.

Are there any products available for sending data from a PC to a SPARC 10
faster than is possible over Ethernet, and if so what file transfer rate
could be achieved.

Thanks

Warwick Smith
Dept of Phonetics
University College 
London
E-mail: warwick@phonetics.ucl.ac.uk
From: ashok@meds38956.cwru.edu (Ashok Aiyar)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: POP2 vs POP3
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:42:09 GMT
Organization: CWRU School of Medicine
NNTP-Posting-Host: axa12-slip.dialin.cwru.edu

In article <vanderwal.9.724412973@rc.tudelft.nl> vanderwal@rc.tudelft.nl (Guus van der Wal) writes:

>Maybe this is a stupid question, but I am rather novice in this area.
> 
>Are POP2 and POP3 completely different products, or is there some
>compatibility involved.

The POP3 protocol supercedes the POP2 protocol.  They are incompatible.
A POP2 server cannot service a POP3 client and vice-versa.  If I remember 
correctly POP3 is described in RFC-1225.  

>I use POPMAIL from boombox, this came with a POP2 server.
>This server I installed on a SUN an now I can do E-mail from my PC.
>Works great.
>After that I installed WINQVT on my PC. This program has a mail facility
>too. But when I invoke it the complaint is: "Missing POP3 server".
>Question: If I install a POP3 server, will both products work, or
>do I have to use POP2 for POPMAIL and POP3 for WINQVT?

POPmail/PC will talk to a POP3 server.   At least I am certain that 2.72 and 
later versions talk to a POP3 server.  Under Setup-Network-Advanced, change 
the POP port from 109 to 110.

I would recommend using the UCB POP3 daemon on your SUN as WinQVT/net seems 
to interact well with it.

Ashok

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                              Ashok Aiyar 
                      Department of Biochemistry
                       CWRU School of Medicine
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From: andres@scf16.scf.loral.com (Jeff Andres)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: 3c509 PD Telnet/FTP SW ???
Date: 11 Dec 92 20:45:59 GMT
Organization: Loral Space & Range Systems

Hi!

I tried piggy backing the last post about 3C509 discussion to try to
find out where if any software exists that is public domain to work with
3Coms 509 card. I got one response and it said to look to using a packet
driver and to configure the config.tel which I downloaded from NCSA
to the correct parameters.

Pardon my ignorance, but where do i find the packet driver and what/how
do I set-up the config.tel to look like ???

Thanks in advance,

Email direct...or post if you believe that you answer will help others.

Cheers,

Jeff Andres
From: donp@novell.com (don provan)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Netware and TCP/IP
Date: 17 Dec 92 20:11:50 GMT
Organization: Novell, Inc., San Jose, California

In article <1992Dec17.154011.20130@cc.gatech.edu> byron@cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff) writes:
>In article <1992Dec17.132149.5508@linus.mitre.org> Brian Fellows <bdf@mitre.org> writes:
>>I am about to add TCP/IP capability to an existing LAN running Netware IPX.
>
>I'll beat Russ to the punch and post his suggestion to me. The key component
>here is a interface program (called a shim) between the Novell stuff and
>the packet driver. Also by using a program called pktmux it is possible to
>have several TCP/IP stacks going on at once.

Send him off into the weeds, why don't you?

Mr. Fellows, your best approach to add TCP/IP to an existing NetWare
network is probably to switch from IPX.com to IPXODI.com (i.e., switch
from the old compiled in drivers to ODI drivers) -- you may have already
done that -- and then buy any of the several TCP/IP packages that
support ODI.  Then IPX and TCP/IP can share the NIC without any trouble.

The advice given by Mr. Jeff assumes that you are not planning to
actually purchase a TCP/IP product, but instead are planning to track
down a free TCP/IP implementation and work out how to use it on your
own.  The free implementations all use the packet drivers that Mr. Jeff
describes.  If that's what you have in mind, please feel free to take
his advice, but i'm guessing that's not the situation since one option
you're considering is buying additional NICs to support TCP/IP.

Coexistence of TCP/IP and IPX has been worked out in several
different ways.  Nowadays, most PC based TCP/IP implementations,
including the free ones as Mr. Jeff has explained, have some
mechanism for sharing a NIC with IPX.  The mechanism Novell
officially recommends is ODI, but that's not too surprising
since Novell's own TCP/IP product for PCs uses ODI.

In any case, you should not need to buy a second NIC to add TCP/IP.

						don provan
						donp@novell.com
From: John@Johns.FrontierTech.COM (John F. Moehrke)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: MS Window based News Reader
Date: 18 Dec 92 19:51:30 GMT
Organization: Frontier Technologies Corp
NNTP-Posting-Host: johns.frontiertech.com

All this talk about bad news readers has me eager to tell 
all about Frontier's Windows Based News Reader. It has
many options and is WinSock based.
From: tony@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu (Anthony Olejnik)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Q: Trumpet over SLIP
Date: 11 Dec 92 21:08:44 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Q: Does Trumpet support SLIP directly (via SLIP8250) or
   indirectly (via ETHERSLIP)?

Q: Is there a way to configure Trumpet to *NOT* read the
   group list at startup?  

I'm using Trumpet over SLIP8250 and it takes *FOREVER*
to read in the ~2500 newgroup names at startup.  I'm
not sure if this is due the 'wrong' SLIP driver (SLIP8250
vs. ETHERSLP) or something else.

Q: Has anyone used Trumpet over SLIP successfully?

Thanks in advance.

--tony
From: ekpc@access.digex.com (East Kentucky Power Cooperative)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Exceed/W to RS/6000 (INed keymap)
Date: 14 Dec 1992 14:51:45 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com

I am using Hummingbird's eXceed/W to start up xterms to an RS/6000. My problem
is in the INed editor. The hft (main console) for the RS has an ACTION
key. 
This should be the right control key, but nothing works.
I would like to hear from anyone in this type of arrangement.

Fernie
From: chris@distinct.com (Chris Bologna)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Wfwg over SLIP/PPP ???
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 19:51:11 PDT
Organization: Distinct Corp.

>>This for instance would allow me to configure my PC at home to use a SLIP/PPP
>>packet driver (e.g. slip8250.com) to access my office. Therefor I search for a
>>NDIS_to_Packet driver.

>>Of cause hints/help to either

>>1.) configure WfWG to use packet drivers or
>>2.) get a SLIP/PPPdriver with NDIS interface

>>would be appreciated as well.
                                                                              
Well we have another solution.  Distinct TCP/IP for Windows - Network
Applications 3.0 (which works also with WFWG) contains inbuilt PPP and SLIP
capabilities.  Since we talk directly to the COM port we do not require
any extra driver.  I believe that Frontier also has a PPP package that
works in a similar manner (this is an add on to their Super TCP).

Maybe this is a different way to achieve what you want.

Chris Bologna
Distinct Corporation
14395 Saratoga Avenue, Suite 120
Saratoga, CA 95070

Tel: (408) 741-0781
Fax: (408) 741-0795
email: chris@distinct.com
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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: erick@demorgan.uwaterloo.ca (Erick Engelke)
Subject: Re: Wattcp -> Silicon Graphics: (solution + questions)
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:30:05 GMT

kev@sol.acs.unt.edu (Kevin W. Mullet) writes:
>
>   I believe that WATTCP uses a config.tel file nearly identical in
>   format to the one used by both NCSA and CUTCP.  

Actually, I don't think so.  The NCSA/CUTCP model works on objects.  You
describe each host of interest and give it attributes like the ability to
gateway, the ability to do name service and desired screen/keyboard defaults.
Multiple lines in the config file refer to the same object until the next
one is started.

WATTCP uses some similar words, but it does not compile the lists of objects
in the same way.  Each line is treated separately and has no real knowledge
of previous lines.

>   At the end is the
>   equiv of the /etc/hosts file in the form of entries for each host
>   with (minimally, if you like ) domain names, aliases and IP
>   addresses.  This should suit your purposes.

You must be confusing WATTCP with something else here.  There ain't no
such feature.

The reason for this different approach is that WATTCP is often used in
TSRs and so it can't malloc up memory to hold umpteen-gazillion objects.
The NCSA model is not as easily fired up inside a tsr.

Erick


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Erick Engelke				 	            WATTCP Architect
erick@development.uwaterloo.ca     TCP/IP was easy but i still can't work VI
Organization: Ministry of Education, Computer Center NETNEWS system V2.3
Date: Wednesday, 16 Dec 1992 15:38:55 EST
From: Mac Su-Cheong (MSC) <NCKUS089@TWNMOE10.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Questions on transport layer network programming

Dear Netters,

  I am going to write a similar package to NCSA telnet with much simpler
functionality. Is there any book about networking programming based on
packet driver? I have got the source code of NCSA telnet and it is really
tired to trace through all the code. I would like to have a book with
detail description and examples. Thanks in advance.

Mac Su-Cheong (MSC)
msc@sun4.ee.ncku.edu.tw
msc@snoopy.ncku.edu.tw
nckus089@twnmoe10.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: hamish@cloud.apana.org.au
Subject: 3Com 3C501 adaptor
Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 21:58:00 GMT
Reply-To: hamish@cloud.apana.org.au
X-Posted-From: argolis.osf.rmit.oz.au
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu


I have two 3C501 3Com Ethernet adaptors, one in each of my machines. I've
finally got KA9Q and TCP/IP working between the machines (routing problems).
I know this isn't the place, but I need a Lantastic [3.x or 4.x] driver for
the card. Can anyone help, or give me an email address for Artisoft?
3Com, Sydney, have not been any help in this, though they have been otherwise.

Thanks.



Hamish Moffatt



Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: csfed@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Frank E. Doss)
Subject: Re: Where, Oh where is NCSA
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:40:07 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Eastern Illinois University

In article <1992Dec17.095257.16991@Cookie.secapl.com> ckw@Cookie.secapl.com (Kirk Woerner) writes:
>I've been looking for hours on various sites (not to mention reading this
>group), but no answer seems to be available.  I'm looking for the latest
>version of NCSA (2.3?) and the slip driver slip8250.
>  I'm reasonably sure that this is a FAQ but since I browsed through all the
>news we have without finding where that was either I figured I'd just post.


Try:		zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu

-- 
Frank E. Doss                            Academic Computing
csfed@ux1.cts.eiu.edu                    Eastern Illinois University
From: hcobb@fly2.berkeley.edu (Henry J. Cobb)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: SMC Elite 16T Combo Card and AST 286s?
Date: 17 Dec 92 07:05:55
Organization: /rubin/hcobb/.organization
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: fly2.berkeley.edu
In-reply-to: CART@OCVAXA.CC.OBERLIN.EDU's message of 10 Dec 92 23:12:18 GMT


	AST has new ROMs (required even for IDE!), you could go order that.

	Or (voted best use of AST286 case ;-) install 386SX motherboards...
--
	Henry J. Cobb	hcobb@fly2.berkeley.edu	SFB Tyrant
	"Once it becomes possible to do something, it gets very difficult to
undo it.  Whether its automobiles, computers or nuclear weapons, invention has
always been the mother of necessity."
From: brian@SJF.Novell.COM (Brian Meek)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: RE: ODI to NDIS mapping
Date: 21 Dec 92 04:39:17 GMT
Organization: Novell, Inc.

In article <9212201228.AA08813@ftp.com> backman@FTP.COM (Larry Backman) writes:
>From: backman@FTP.COM (Larry Backman)
>Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
>Subject: Re: RE: ODI to NDIS mapping
> >> Actually, ODINSUP does the inverse of what was asked for...  but then,
> >> as long as both interfaces are available to protocol stacks, this 
> >> frustrating and unfortunate need is met.
> >> 
> >> Latest version of said driver can be obtained via anonymous FTP to 
> >> ftp.novell.com in ~/novlib/novfiles/dosup6.zip.
> >>
>
>Out of curiousity since I have customers who ask this question:
>What is the performance hit of running ODINSUP?  Has Novell
>done the bemchmarks that would measure this?

This depends largely upon the quality of the NDIS driver being replaced 
and that of the corresponding ODI driver it's being replaced with.  I've 
seen one instance where replacing an NDIS driver for an NE2000 with the ODI 
driver for the same board and ODINSUP helped PC-NFS v4.0 perform noticeably 
better... and it saved memory at the same time (although I understand that 
on average the use of ODINSUP incurs an additional 4900 bytes of RAM).

On performance in general, I'll quote the ODINSUP.DOC file found in the 
aforementioned DOSUP6.ZIP:

    Limited performance comparisons were made using the 3Com EtherLink
    II adapter.  A performance comparison using the native NDIS
    ELNKII.DOS MAC Driver and the ODI 3C503.COM and ODINSUP.COM was
    performed.  It was found that both setup's provided the same
    performance results, i.e. use of the ODINSUP module incurred no
    performance penalty.  Use of other LAN Drivers may show different
    results.

The document also goes on to describe how certain types of protocol 
behavior may effect this...  Good reading for those interested.

-- brian
___________________________________________________________________________
Brian Meek                      Novell, Inc. -- Desktop Systems Group
                                Internet mail:  brian@Novell.COM
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: babiyd@mala.bc.ca
Subject: Christmas Wish List -- Software wanted
Organization: Malaspina College
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 04:45:39 GMT
X-Posted-From: malins.mala.bc.ca
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

Hello people.
  I'm playing with PC's TCPIP and I need some suggestions for software to
accomplish the following (in rough order of importance):

1) Mail send/read.   
2) NNTP client
3) telnet server
4) Talk client/sever
5) Finger server

I have played with QVTnet, and Trumpet, but don't have a POP3 server for mail
and am not particularly happy with eather of them as a news server... please 
mail, because getting an NNTP session going rihgt now is crazy....

Dale Babiy -- babiyd@mala.bc.ca
From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Win QVT & Clarkson Drivers... HELP !! 
Distribution: world
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 03:56:04 GMT
Organization: Crynwr Software

In article <1544@ozz.oasis.icl.co.uk> sch@oasis.icl.co.uk writes:

     I'm trying to configure qvtnet to run on a pc with a NI5210 card along with
   FTP PC/TCP.

Say no more!  You're trying to run two TCP/IP stacks on the same
network interface.  That can't be dont without some software torture.
One such beast is pktmux.

-russ <nelson@crynwr.com> What canst *thou* say?
Crynwr Software           Crynwr Software sells packet driver support.
11 Grant St.              315-268-1925 Voice  |  LPF member - ask me about
Potsdam, NY 13676         315-268-9201 FAX    |  the harm software patents do.
From: sch@oasis.icl.co.uk (Simon Hamner)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Win QVT & Clarkson Drivers... HELP !!
Date: 16 Dec 92 13:06:19 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Hi,
  I'm trying to configure qvtnet to run on a pc with a NI5210 card along with
FTP PC/TCP.

Everything seems to load OK, no errors showing from the autoexec.bat, and 
the DOS programs ping, rloginvt work. I've loaded the Clarkson driver using the
command line below in autoexec.bat:

     c:\pctcp\ni5210 0x66 7 0x360 0xD000
     c:\pctcp\pktint

When I try and run QVT I get dialog boxes containing the following messages:

     Packet Driver Error: TYPE_IN_USE (Access Type)

     Can't Access IP handler interface type 1

     netinit() error

     Network Initialisation failed


In the .rc file I have packet interupt (sp?) vector set to 66, and the packet
class set to 0.

Can anyone help ?

   Please reply by email.

 
    Thanks
       Simon.



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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: henrik@itekiris.kjemi.unit.no (Henrik Gudbrandsen)
Subject: Lantastic for tcp/ip and packet drivers
Organization: SINTEF
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 09:16:58 GMT

I just tested Lantastic for tcp/ip and it works great with their ftp/telnet 
BUT it don't support software using packet drivers (I far as I can see).

In my present setup I have 2 network cards, one for Lantastic and the other 
for packet driver (with pktmux). I had hoped Lantastic for tcp/ip used 
packet drivers so I could remove one card (this setup use memory! :-() ).

The tcp/ip driveres supplied by artisoft runs on top on their netbios, is it 
possible to have some kind of packet driver on top of this drivers?

Anyone got any information about this?


Henrik Gudbrandsen
henrik@itekiris.kjemi.unit.no
Organization: St. John's University
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 12:27:15 EST
From: Michael S. Holtzman <HOLTZMAN@SJUVM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Searching for TFTP server

Greetings.  I am desparately seeking a TFTP server for a PC.  If anyone
can point me in the right direction, etc.

Please respond directly.

My eternal gratitude....
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: dhess@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Drew William Hess)
Subject: Winsock available?
Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
Distribution: comp
Date: 15 Dec 92 01:51:45 GMT

Is Winsock available as a DLL anywhere, or is it just (as yet) an API?

-dwh-
dhess@cs.stanford.edu
From: chris@visionware.co.uk (Chris Davies)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: PC/TCP 2.1 & Xvision 4.1
Date: 17 Dec 92 13:44:25 GMT
Organization: VisionWare Ltd., Leeds, UK
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

catcim@eig.unige.ch wrote:
: I have installed FTP's PC/TCP release 2.1
: 
: I also installed X-Vision 4.1, but unfortunatly I don't bring them to
: work together. The local dealer tells me that the communication part of
: X-Vision only supports PC/TCP release 2.05.

If you are having problems with a VisionWare product please contact
support@visionware.co.uk or phone the technical support hotline on
+44 532 743234 (fax 783726).

Chris
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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: jallard@microsoft.com (James 'J' Allard)
Subject: Re: TCP/IP and Windows for Workgroups 
Date: 15 Dec 92 21:06:51 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <723836303snx@crynwr.com> nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes:
>
>James, here's my challenge to you: run an anonymous FTP server over
>Microsoft's TCP/IP stack, put something popular on that server, and
>announce it all over the Internet (don't forget comp.archives and
>archie).  If your server serves all comers, it's worthy of the name
>TCP/IP.  Until then...

What an excellent idea! There are of course some details to be worked
out, but I've initiated an effort to make this happen as per your
suggestion.

We spend a lot of cycles doing interoperability testing in house with
other vendors' stacks, but we clearly can't cover them all. We'll also
be participating in the TCP/IP bake off in February with (I'd imagine)
most all major TCP/IP implementations out there. This would be a great
way for us to get even better coverage.

I'll have to find someone with time to port FTPd to Windows NT (if 
anyone out there is working on this, please let me know), and I'll 
have to work out the details with our MIS department. Clearly this 
won't happen super-soon, but I'll be sure to post once we have a box
on the Inet that all can talk to.

In the meantime, you might want to take a look at the beta for yourself.

Thanks for the great idea.

-- 
_______________________________________________________________
J. Allard                                 jallard@microsoft.com
Program Manager of TCP/IP Technologies    work: (206)882-8080
Microsoft Corporation                     home: (206)860-8862
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: RE: Slip for IBM PC
From: mdlcpgs@lhn.gns.cri.nz
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 21:16:37 GMT  
Organization: Institute of Gelogical & Nuclear Sciences, New Zealand.

>Has anyone got a slip server application for IBM-PC?
>Alternatively, does anyone use SLIP other than through
>a dial-up bank of modems?

well I asked for this recently and mean to summerise once I
have got a besties working. I have three leads:

KA9Q (wuarchive or mit) apparently can do this. 

Use any system (eg NCSA telnet) that supports the packet
driver interface and get the SLIP packet driver from
Clarkson (or possibly columbia)

If you have Lan Man 2.1, then it is reputably possibly.

I am try lanman option first, as soon as I can get overworked
Lanman manager to look up the manuals. Will try other options
if that be got to work.
	Phil