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From: jost@jake.prz.tu-berlin.de (Jost Weinmiller)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.misc
Subject: packet driver interface
Date: 15 Oct 92 15:35:20 GMT
Organization: TU-Berlin TUBKOM, Germany


hi,
 
i am looking for a source code, building an addressable interface
to a packet driver.

i want to hand over packets from a higher layer to the
packet driver (got the driver already), have the driver
send the packets, grab the packets on the other end
and hand them over to the receiving higher layer again.

sounds quite simple, but i just cant find the interface.

any pointers welcome.

cheers
jost
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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.misc
Subject: Re: UNIX + MSDOS Clients
Date: 13 Oct 92 19:26:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: chinet.Bw2rCn.61D
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX

In article <1992Oct10.183017.26265@mccc.edu> pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>Is there a lan product that would permit the UNIX host to mount MS-DOS
>client disks on its file system?

There's the SOSS package that turns a PC into an NFS server, but you can't
do anything else on the PC at the same time.  

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us
From: x90farleigh1@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.misc
Subject: New to LAN technology-Any sage advice?
Date: 11 Oct 92 11:43:02 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

I am looking for some advice on coming up to speed on the LAN technologies ...


I have an electronics and communications background, and am a member (new) of
IEEE. I hack 'C" and assy, unix sysv.4, but have limited experience in Ethernet,
Token ring, FDDI, etc.

I am looking for a thorough explanation of how NETBEUI, 3+ 3Com works...


I have spent a great deal of time at Computer Literacy books stores in Silicon
Valley, but have still to find a good intro into the LAN systems in use, their
capabilities, error recovery theoretical-practical, and in general, an inside
look at their basic layout! For Example- I have read the 'C' programmers guide
 to NETBIOS, and understand the concepts - but how does that apply to any other
implementation of NETBIOS - When another vendor says NETBIOS, does he mean the
PC NETBIOS software interface, or just the whole name registering ordeal?

Utterly confused ...

Fred Farleigh ...
-New ideas for an old company-
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 11:29:13 EDT
From: <GSR103@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.misc
Subject: Moses Computers Choosen Lan

I would like to know if anyone has used or setup Moses' Choosen Lan.
I am doing some research on this Lan and I appreciate any comments
anyone may have.

Thank You.
Greg
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.misc
From: eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (Tan Jin Meng)
Subject: ARCNET and Token Ring
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 02:15:03 GMT

I know almost nothing about ARCNET except that it is a token passing
architecture. 

Question : 
What are the similarities and differences between ARCNET and Token
Ring? (this is really a question about what is ARCNET).

Question :
I know that Token Rings are almost real time capable due to more predictable
response/delay times, allowance for priority etc (simplistically
speaking). How would an ARCNET implementation serve in this regard.

This questions are interesting to me personally as well as a possible
project I may be doing later. Hopefully it is interesting enough to start a
discussion.

jin meng
From: dey@unix1.cs.umass.edu (Jayanta K. Dey)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.misc
Subject: Start-up delay in Ethernet repeators.
Date: 8 Oct 92 14:49:54 GMT
Reply-To: dey@unix1.cs.umass.edu (Jayanta K. Dey)
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst


I am posting this question for a friend of mine.

Are there any adverse system effects if a Ethernet repeator does not mee
t the AUI to AUI start-up delay IEEE specifications. Will it lead to configuration 
limitations. Can i still have 4 AUI hops?

Please send your replies to ganesan@thales.math.umass.edu

Thanks,

Swami
An engineer is a person who passes as an exciting technical expert on
the basis of being able to turn out with prolific fortitude, infinite
strings of incomprehensive estimates calculated with microscopic
precision from vague assumptions and debatable figures taken from
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.misc
From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
Subject: UNIX + MSDOS Clients
Organization: The College On The Other Side Of Route One
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 18:30:17 GMT

Is there a lan product that would permit the UNIX host to mount MS-DOS
client disks on its file system?

Thanks.
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.misc
From: philipm@cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Philip Marivoet)
Subject: Re: ARCNET and Token Ring
Organization: Dept. Computerwetenschappen
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 14:27:24 GMT

Now that we're talking about ARCNET, I'll be starting up an ARCNET related
project soon but I'm having a bit of trouble finding documentation about
ARCNET. I checked our university's library but I wasn't very succesful.
Anyone who could give me some useful pointers ? (addresses/fax numbers/e-mail
addresses/ftp sites/book or article references/...)
Thanks in advance

-Philip
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.misc
From: roy@mchip00.med.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Subject: Need ethernet monitor for Ultrix
Organization: New York University, School of Medicine
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 15:36:09 GMT

	Does anybody know of an ethernet monitoring program (something like
tcpdump or etherfind on a Sun) which will run under Ultrix 4.2 on a
DECstation 5000?
Xref: sparky comp.dcom.lans.misc:843 comp.dcom.lans.fddi:731 comp.dcom.lans.ethernet:2212
From: fcaggian@rentec.com (Frank Caggiano)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.misc,comp.dcom.lans.fddi,comp.dcom.lans.ethernet
Subject: Experience with CDDI
Keywords: FDDI twisted-pair ethernet
Date: 15 Oct 92 14:49:55 GMT
Followup-To: fcaggian@rentec.com
Organization: Renaissance Technologies Corp., Setuket, NY


	I would like to hear from anyone who has had any
experience with CDDI.  From the literature I've seen this is
suppose to permit 100Mbps FDDI protocols over twisted-pair wiring.
The only source of information I have seen so far is from a 
company called Credcendo Communications, hence the initials CDDI.
(Crescendo Distributed Data Interface).

	Thanks,

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From: gl@ypedhs.no (GeirAge Leirvik)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.misc
Subject: Re: Need ethernet monitor for Ultrix
Date: 16 Oct 92 17:28:11 GMT
Organization: Statens Yrkespedagogiske Hogskole

In article <1992Oct14.153609.705@phri.nyu.edu>, roy@mchip00.med.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:
|> 	Does anybody know of an ethernet monitoring program (something like
|> tcpdump or etherfind on a Sun) which will run under Ultrix 4.2 on a
|> DECstation 5000?

I am looking for the same kind of program that will run under HP-UX. 

Geir
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.misc
From: ianmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Ian McPherson)
Subject: Re: Lantastic and TCP/IPy
Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 16:10:04 GMT

harakka_j@salcjkl.salcom.fi writes:
: In article <.1.0@>, @ (Henrik Gudbrandsen) writes:
: > Our department are connected to a campus network and have access to mail/
: > news etc.  In addition we are using Lantastic for printersharing/
: > fileserver. (100+ users)
: > 
: > My question is: Is there a way to run both tcp/ip-based software (clarcson 
: 
: As far as I know, if you use Lantastic's own NetBIOS implemetation, you
: cant use anything else (using the same card) simultaneously.  On the
: other hand since Lantastic can be run over many other NetBIOS's, it's
: possible (at least in theory) to run some TCP/IP implementation. which
: supports NettBIOS on top of it and then run Lantastic on top of that
: NetBIOS. Off course, this eats up much more memory than plain Lantastic...
: 
: Disclaimer: I haven't done this (yet), only digged a little bit since
: I have similar needs...
: 
: 					- juha -
: 
: P.S. If somebody have any other possibility, I'm VERY interested...
: 
YES!!  there is a NETBIOS packet driver in the Clarkson collection
that will sit on top of LANtastic's Netbios and using ka9q as a
router will allow you to access TCP/IP hosts/networks. I have 
tested this and works quite well. Details are included in the
NB.NOT file with the netbios driver and gives config parameters
for ka9q.

Ian.
From: mty@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Yap Ma Tit)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.misc
Subject: ATM Switch
Date: 14 Oct 92 09:32:34 GMT
Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

I am looking for an ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) switch
to support our research in high-speed multiservice networks,
and distributed multimedia applications.

If you come across any of these switches, please email me
their supplier's address, fax no., ....

Thanks

Ma Tit, Yap

mty@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg
astyap@ntuvax.bitnet
mty@comp.lancs.ac.uk
From: mitchell@ncs.dnd.ca (Robert D. Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.misc
Subject: NETWORK TERMINOLOGY
Keywords: NETWORK, LAN, DEFINITIONS, TERMINOLOGY
Date: 11 Oct 92 17:33:25 GMT
Organization: DND, Ottawa, CANADA


 
Could someone please indicate where I can find a Glossary of terms
relating to NETWORKS, LANS and the like.  The Glossary would ideally
include descriptive specifications for such terms as 10 Base T, 10 Base
5, etc.  eg; What is the difference between a concentrator and a hub?
 
Hoping to hear from someone.
 
Thanks.
 
Bob M.
From: kchen@sinkhole.unf.edu (Ken Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.misc
Subject: NetWare vs. LANtastic
Date: 9 Oct 92 17:32:48 GMT
Organization: Jacksonville

I am a UNIX administrator and am crasy about UNIX.  However, I am asked
to estalish a PC network w/ three 486 and one 386, and those PCs are
running MS-DOS 5.0.  I have looked at some catalogs and talked to
salespeople about NetWare and LANtastic.  Now, I like to hear from
NetWare's or LANtastic's administrators and users.  

I am building an PC network for accounting system, and centralized
database is necessary.  If I choose LANtastic, can I make a files-server
system.  Is UTP (unshield twist pair wire) reliable enough?  Which
adpter card, Ethernet or LANtastic, is better?

Any comment is welcomed.  Thanks a lot.  Reply by E-mail is preferred.


-- 
Ken Chen <kchen@sinkhole.unf.edu>
Florida Publishing Co.
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp
From: gregb@murphy.com (Greg Banschbach (Unigroup of New York))
Subject: Re: DECUS-UUCP <=> Microsoft-MAIL
Organization: Murphy & Durieu, NYC NY, USA
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 12:54:37 GMT

In article <1992Sep30.203700.46@front.se> sysha@front.se writes:
>	Hi netreaders.
>
>	I have a problem with integrating PC's running Microsoft-MAIL
>	with my VAXes running DECUS-UUCP.
>	I want to be able to send mail from Miscrosoft-MAIL on the PC's
>	to the VAX running the UUCP-mail gateway in DECUS-UUCP.
>	[ Stuff Deleted ]  
>
>	All ideas are welcome....
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	I am no expert, I beleive the easier way may be to get a UUCP package
	for the PC's, with e-mail support.  

	The next least expensive might be to get DaVinci E-mail - I think
	you'll find them in any PC magazine ( at least Here in the U.S. ).
	If I remember correctly, the package is sold by LOTUS ( the makers
	of the famous spreadsheet ), and it is available for DOS, MacIntosh,
	OS/2 and I think Unix.  Call your local dealer - who knows, there 
	may be a VAX version by now.  

	Last, and everyones favorite,  write your own replacement for the
	DOS side, using some very expensive developement tools, and the
	source to some PC version of UUCP so you have the UUCP backend 8^).


	Good Luck,   

	Greg  ( gregb@murphy.com ) 

Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.fddi
From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Subject: Re: Optical Bypass Switches.
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 02:45:40 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.160456.11141@walter.cray.com>, hens@snipe.cray.com (Tom Stephens) writes:
> 
> Can someone tell me how they really work?  Or better yet, point me in
> a direction where I can read about them?  I am having problems
> explaining that if two machines are powered off in an fddi ring, they
> will not isolate the machine in the middle.  Senerio..
> ...


Think of tiny mirrors controlled by solenoids with springs.  Literally.

Apply power (3-5 v, I've forgotten how many ma but little) to the 2
"signal" wires to the switch, and the mirrors passively direct photons
from the neighbors to the station.  Remove the power, and the mirrors
move back to the "de-inserted" positions, passively route photons
from the neighbors around the powered off or just de-inserted machine.

Very elegant and reasonably reliable if you don't mind the quirks of
mechanical stuff (vibration, shock, and orientation susptibility,
"stickiness", loud click when changing state.  Never mind what their
makers claim; those seem to be large or small in all of them.)


Vernon Schryver,  vjs@sgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.fddi
From: shava@hermes.oit.unc.edu (Shava Nerad Averett)
Subject: Just a funny...
Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 18:24:45 GMT

"Leave something in your closet long enough, and it will come into fashion
again..."
				--me, on fddi over copper

-- 
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/*  all original materials (c)1992, Shava Nerad Averett, and have nothing 
    significant to do with the University of North Carolina, a mostly owned 
    subsidiary of the NC Legislature, a mostly owned subsidiary of NC DOT. */
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.fddi
From: rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Subject: Re: Can NFS over FDDI work properly?
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 09:24:52 GMT

rmwise@mcigate.apdev.mci.com (Bob_Wise) writes:
+---------------
| I appreciate these words of advice, but I was really curious what the
| issues were when NOT spanning several media types.
| For example, two machines, FDDI only, doing NFS mounts from each other.
| Are there packet sizing issues given this scenario?
+---------------

Nope. It works fine (here, at least).


-Rob

-----
Rob Warnock, MS-9U/510		rpw3@sgi.com
Silicon Graphics, Inc.		(415)390-1673
2011 N. Shoreline Blvd.
Mountain View, CA  94043

Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.fddi
From: root@anza.3com.com (Operator)
Subject: Re: Is dual homing easy?
Organization: 3Com Australia
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 06:04:47 GMT

DART@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (415) writes:
Exactly as you expected. The DAS can be connected as a SAS with a backup link to the second concentrator. This mean your server 1 is single attached to the ring at anytime. Also I presume your concentrator and your DAS server interface are all supporting Dual homing.

>I need some advice on dual homing.  I want to use DH, Dual Homing,
>to satisfy a conflict; our users want redundant access to some
>servers on the FDDI and, even though the servers have DAS cards,
>I don't want them on my main ring.  What I was planing on doing
>as a fix was cross couple the stations across two concentrators,
>which I understand is called dual homing.   This is a picture of
>what I want to do.  Can I just plug these guys in and expect them
>to work this way?
>  *
>  *  ------------------                       -------------
>  ***|A               |***********************|A          |
>     | Concentrator 1 |                       |  SERVER 1 |
>  ***|B               |                      *|B          |
>  *  ------------------                    *  -------------
>  *                                     *
>  *                                  *
>  *->(Main Ring)                  *
>  *                            *
>  *                         *
>  *  ------------------  *
>  ***|A               |*
>     | Concentrator 2 |
>  ***|B               |
>  *  ------------------
>  *
>Thanks,
>Marty Dart.

>My opinions are mine and mine alone.
From: rasp@xlnt.com (Ron Perloff)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.fddi
Subject: re; Is dual homing easy?
Date: 12 Oct 92 15:34:21 GMT
Organization: xdi

In article <92281.150913DART@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>,
DART@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (415) writes:
>I need some advice on dual homing.  I want to use DH, Dual Homing,
>to satisfy a conflict; our users want redundant access to some
>servers on the FDDI and, even though the servers have DAS cards,
>I don't want them on my main ring.  What I was planing on doing
>as a fix was cross couple the stations across two concentrators,
>which I understand is called dual homing.   This is a picture of
>what I want to do.  Can I just plug these guys in and expect them
>to work this way?

It should would, but you should check with the equipment vendors
to see that they support it and have tested it. I believe all
Dual Attachment Stations and Concentrators from the >40 companies
that use our SMT software will support Dual Homing.

Ron

Ronald S. Perloff     rasp@xlnt.com
XLNT Designs, Inc.  (XDI)
15050 Avenue of Science
Suite 106
San Diego, CA  92128
619 487 9320   -   FAX: 619 487 9768
From: peter@anl433.uucp (Peter Resele)
Subject: FDDI-2
Organization: Technical University of Graz, Austria
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Distribution: world 
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 14:56:02 GMT

Sorry if this is a frequently asked question: 
Can anybody tell me the status of FDDI-II? Is anybody working on an 
implementation (chipset, interface...)

To put it more provocative:

Is there any chance of success for FDDI-II?

Thank you very much for your comments and opinions

Peter
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.fddi
From: myoung@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
Subject: Re: How perform 30+ Workstation on FDDI?
Reply-To: myoung@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 13:29:02 GMT

In article <1992Oct10.131926.1@elgr.epfl.ch>, grandjean@elgr.epfl.ch writes:
>
>I'm working on a project were 30 Workstations will be added to our network.
>The Stations will induce heavy nfs traffic (bitmap maps) and SQLnet traffic.
>We teach and develop on GIS -Geographic Information System.
>
>     We are evaluating multiple ethernet segment  vs  FDDI.

  For multiple ethernet I like Alantec, they have a pretty good solution

  I would also consider cell relay, look at Fore systems, or Adaptive.
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.fddi
From: rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Subject: Re: XTP-forum???
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 10:25:21 GMT

Steinar.Haug@delab.sintef.no (Steinar Haug) writes:
+---------------
| > Is there any mailing list about XTP? 
| 
| Yes, there is such a list. However, it's been rather quiet lately. I'm
| working on an XTP implementation myself, so I'd definitely like to see
| more activity on the list!
+---------------

The list is "xtp-relay@pei.com". It was always very quiet, with
occasional bursts of life before & after XTP TAB/RA meetings. But
as you note, the proper way to ask to be added is to send mail to
"xtp-request@pei.com".

+---------------
| Please note that the info in Rob Warnock's message is slightly out of date,
+---------------

Yeah, that message was *old* (2.5 yr). ;-}  I no longer even work on that
project...

+---------------
| as the XTP protocol spec is now at revision 3.6.
+---------------

If you include your surface-mailing address in mail to "xtp-request@pei.com",
they'll send you a copy of the XTP 3.6 spec, or you can anonymous FTP it from
"sgi.sgi.com:~ftp/xtp/xtp3.6.ps.Z" (about 400 KB).

+---------------
| Also, there is a book about XTP, authored by Alf Weaver (weaver@virginia.edu)
| and (I believe) some others. I have ordered it but haven't received my copy
| yet...
+---------------

Alf has been one of the more enthusiastic participants at the XTP TAB/RA
meetings, and his group at U. Virginia has done their own implementation,
so his book should be interesting to anyone interested in XTP.


-Rob

-----
Rob Warnock, MS-9U/510		rpw3@sgi.com
Silicon Graphics, Inc.		(415)390-1673
2011 N. Shoreline Blvd.
Mountain View, CA  94043

Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.fddi
From: mty@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Yap Ma Tit)
Subject: Looking for an ATM Switch
Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 09:41:50 GMT

I am looking for an ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) switch
to support our research in high-speed multiservice networks
and distributed multimedia applications.

If you come across any of these switches, please email me
the suppliers' address, fax no.,...

Thanks

Ma Tit, Yap

mty@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg
astyap@ntuvax.bitnet
mty@comp.lancs.ac.uk
From: gnn@wsl.dec.com (George Neville-Neil)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.fddi
Subject: TCP Bandwidth Measurements of FDDI
Keywords: TCP/IP  Bandwidth
Date: 14 Oct 92 18:07:55 GMT
Reply-To: gnn@wsl.dec.com (George Neville-Neil)
Organization: DEC Western Software Lab

Hi Folks,

	Does anyone have hard numbers on the bandwidth of a running FDDI
ring?  I.e. I want numbers that aren't pure but are taken from a network
running with a workload of day to day users.

Thanks,
George

-- 
Who needs the NEA when you have NBC?
From: rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.fddi
Subject: FDDI for SGI Indigo (was: Re: SBUS FDDI Cards for TCP/IP & SunOS)
Date: 7 Oct 92 10:38:26 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

jsims@uswest.com (John Sims) writes:
+---------------
| The SGI folks, claim ~70Mbps on their cards for Indigo's (of course, we've
| had our order in for several months and to date no FDDI cards have been
| seen from SGI).
+---------------

That product, the "FDDIXpress XPI" as I think it's called in the price book,
just hit "manufacturing release" about two weeks ago, so we should be starting
to ship the backlog by now. [I'm in engineering; I don't know how long the
queue is.] Sorry you had to wait.

The card's real. We'll be showing it at Interop at the end of this month.
Come talk to the booth crew if you haven't gotten yours by then (or even
if you have).


-Rob

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Rob Warnock, MS-9U/510		rpw3@sgi.com
Silicon Graphics, Inc.		(415)390-1673
2011 N. Shoreline Blvd.
Mountain View, CA  94043