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Support for the Packet Driver spec has come from the following organizations
and people within those organizations.  Order of listing is more or less
chronological.

John Romkey <[e-mail]>, who created the spec in the first place.
James van Bokkelen <[e-mail]>, who is maintaining the spec.
Karl Auerbach <[e-mail]>, who adapted MIT's PC/IP to use the packet
    driver spec and wrote a packet driver for the TRW-2000.
Phil Karn <[e-mail]>, who added a packet driver interface to
    his code, and supplied C code for the 3c501 and SLIP8250 drivers.
Bill Doster <[e-mail]>, who wrote a NI5010 driver in C for
    Phil Karn's net.
Russell Nelson <[e-mail]>, who created the packet driver
    skeleton and adapted several existing drivers to it.
Bob Clements <[e-mail]>, who wrote the WD8003E and 3c503 drivers.
Brad Clements <[e-mail]>, who adapted NCSA Telnet to use the
    packet driver spec.
(Bob and Brad are not related.)
The Wollongong Group, in the person of Leo J. McLaughlin <[e-mail]>, which
    has committed to supporting the spec.
3Com, in the person of [e-mail], has been helpful
    in getting 3Com's documention to packet driver authors.
Dan Lanciani <[e-mail]>, who wrote the 3c523 driver.
Denis DeLaRoca <[e-mail]>, who added hardware handshake
    to the SLIP8250 driver.
John Grover <[e-mail]>, who optimized the SLIP8250 driver to
    work at 38.4 Kbps.
Rainer Toebbicke <[e-mail]> who wrote the BICC Isolan driver.
Jan Engvald LDC <[e-mail]>, who improved the wd8003e driver,
    and added MicroChannel support.
Krishnan Gopalan <[e-mail]> and
Gregg Stefancik <[e-mail]> of Clemson University Engineering
    Computer Operations, who wrote the packet driver for the 3c505 card.
Vance Morrison <[e-mail]> added starlan support to the wd8003e
    driver.
Brian Fisher <[e-mail]>, who wrote an "Ethernet" packet driver
    for the IBM Token Ring Adapter card.
Eric Henderson <[e-mail]> of Brigham Young University, who wrote
    a packet driver for Novell's NE1000 and NE2000.
Joe Doupnik <[e-mail]> improved head.asm by adding some comments and
    brought it further into line with the PDS, added promiscuous mode to
    the wd8003e driver, and modified the PC/IP netwatch to use packet
    drivers.
David Horne <[e-mail]>, who wrote a packet driver for Novell's
    NE2000.
Michael Haberler <[e-mail]>, who wrote an IP over NetBIOS packet
    driver.
Paul Kranenburg <rulcs![e-mail]>, who wrote an IP over IPX packet
    driver.
David E. Johnson <[e-mail]>, who fixed the 3c505 driver.
James A. Harvey <[e-mail]>, who fixed the AT test in tail.asm
    and the 3c503 lockup problem.
Anto Prijosoesilo <[e-mail]>, who fixed a bug related to DMA in
    the ni6510 driver.
John Mann <[e-mail]>, who submitted some code to delay the
    etopen and convert between Novell's pseudo IEEE 802.3 packets and
    Ethernet packets.
Drew Daniel Perkins <[e-mail]>, who designed and implemented
    as_send_pkt (asynchronous send) for the wd8013ebt, and improved
    pktsend in the process
Katie Stevens <[e-mail]>, who wrote a LocalTalk driver.
Steven Wallace <[e-mail]>, who added a hack for MS-Windows.
Reinhard Strebler <[e-mail]>, who hacked on termin, and slip8250.
Martin Knoblauch <[e-mail]>, who fixed ni5010 promiscuous mode.
Tobias Reber <[e-mail]>, who fixed the 3c523.
Gregory T Small <[e-mail]>, who found a bug in the packet
    interrupt verification.
Dave Price <[e-mail]> wrote a packet driver for the Mitel
    Express ISDN card.
Doug Smith <[e-mail]> ported the ni6510 driver to the
    depca card.
Don Provan <[e-mail]> fixed a bug in the -n switch code.
John Baird <[e-mail]> wrote some ipxpkt documentation.
Sylvan Butler <[e-mail]> fixed two bugs in ubnicpc.

The following freely copyable software supports the packet driver
spec.

The Packet Driver Specification, version 1.09

    vax.ftp.com:pub/packet-d.ascii
    vax.ftp.com:pub/packet-d.mss

Clarkson's (Russ Nelson) collection of packet drivers.

    sun.soe.clarkson.edu:pub/packet-drivers/drivers.zip
    sun.soe.clarkson.edu:pub/packet-drivers/driverss.zip

NCSA's Telnet.

    zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu (128.174.20.50).

Clarkson's (Brad Clements) version of NCSA Telnet.

    The current version of CUTCP (Clarkson's version of NCSA Telnet)
    is available for FTP from
    omnigate.clarkson.edu:pub/cutcp/2.2-C/tc.cutcp.zoo

Phil Karn's TCP/IP package (freely copyable only for radio amateurs and
    educational institutions.  Others should contact him.)

    The latest version of NOS is always available for FTP from
    thumper.bellcore.com:pub/ka9q/nos/src.zip

Dan Laniani's Harvard version of CMU's version of MIT's version of PC-IP.

    The source for PC-IP is available from
    husc6.harvard.edu:/pub/pcip/pcip.tar.Z

    Executables compiled for the packet drivers are available from
    the same sources as the packet drivers.  Look for pcippkt.arc.

BYU's packet driver IPX.COM.

    A copy is kept on sun.soe.clarkson.edu:/pub/novell/novell.exe

Vance Morrison's PCROUTE.

    There is a beta version of PCroute with packet driver support
    available on accvuax.nwu.edu (129.105.49.1) in pub/pcroute/exp.
    In this directory you will find two files 'packpack.exe' and
    'packslip.exe'.   These files are compiled versions of pcroute
    the first configured to be used with two packet drivers, and
    the second configured for one packet driver and one slip line.

    In addition the pub/pcroute/exp directory is the standard PCroute
    documentation modfied to include packet driver details, as well
    as a file 'packet.txt' which is a sample installtion of the
    packpack.exe code.

    So if you have wanted to use PCroute, but didn't have WD8003E
    cards here is your chance to try it out.  If you do try out the
    code, please send me a note saying so (so I can know if anyone
    really cares), and also send any comments/bugs of interest.
    The code will not be nearly as speedy as the native driver, but
    I am not sure how much (I estimate about 1/3 the speed).  Any
    comments/measurments on the speed would also be appreciated.

    At present the source for the additional code is not available
    because it is easer for me to wait until I have had some feedback
    and then simply integrate it into the standard release.

Jan Engvald's PDCLKSET, a program to set the time on a PC.

    For MSDOS machines I suggest you try PDCLKSET, available by
    anonymous FTP from
    Pollux.lu.se:/pub/network/pdclkset/pdclk088.zip . It requires
    a packet driver, is very small (7 kbyte) and fast (can be
    included in  AUTOEXEC.BAT without noticeble delay). It knows
    a lot about daylight saving algorithms all over the world,
    but in the case of UK the implemented algorithm may not be
    true every coming year, lacking an officially defined DLS
    rule.

Joe Doupnik's version of MIT's NETWATCH.

    netlab.usu.edu, 129.123.1.11, in directory
    [anonymous.netwatch]. It's a VMS machine so do cd [.netwatch]
    with the brackets and the dot.

Stan's Own Server (NFS server).

    Available from same place as Clarkson collection of packet drivers.
    Look for pcip_sos.arc (source changes to pcip), and sos_pkt.exe
    (pcip_sos compiled for packet drivers).

PC-NFS drivers.

    Available from same place as Clarkson collection of packet drivers.
    Look for compat.tar.Z, or compat.zip (identical contents, different
    archiver).  Note that you need to purchase PC-NFS from Sun in order
    to use this package.

FTP Software's packet-driver-over-NDIS simulator.

    FTP Software has created a program that uses an NDIS driver
    to emulate a packet driver.  It is freely copyable, and
    located on VAX.FTP.COM, in the directory pub/packet.driver/NDIS.

University of Minnesota's POPmail POP2 client.

    POPmail is a POP2 client that will let you read your mail stored
    on a machine running a POP2 server.  Fetch
    boombox.micro.umn.edu:/pub/POPmail/msdos/version.2.0/00README
    to decide which files to get.

Bob Crosson's SNMP monitor.

    In the anonymous FTP directory on host enh.nist.gov (129.6.16.1) are
    two files in compressed tar format.  This is a VAX running VMS so
    the file names may look a little strange.  The file snmplib.tar_z
    contains the libraries, executables, and minimal documentation.  The
    file snmpsrc.tar_z contains all sources (both the main program and
    the libraries) and all available documentation.

Mississippi State University's LPD, FTP, and BOOTP servers

    A beta test version of a freeware LPD for MSDOS can be found
    in the ftp-archive at tacky.cs.olemiss.edu in directory
    pub/lpd. It uses some version of Clarkson or NCSA libraries
    and workes quite well in some first tests here. Besides the
    LPD part there is also a FTP and a BOOTP server included,
    which we also find very useful.

The following commercial software supports the packet driver
spec.

    FTP Software's PC/TCP.
    Sun Microsystem's PC-NFS (unofficially).
    The Wollongong Group's WIN/TCP (and friends).
    Gateway Communications Inc's packet driver.
    D-Link Systems Inc.'s D-Link Ethernet card packet driver.
    Beame and Whiteside's BWNFS and BWKTEL (NFS and TELNET packages)
    MD-DOS/IP (available from Wiscware, [e-mail])
    Cabletron supplies a packet driver with their Ethernet cards.
    Intel supplies a packet driver with their Ethernet cards.

The following companies have donated Ethernet cards to Clarkson University.

    Racal Interlan donated four NI6510s.
    AT&T's Bell Labs donated two Starlan 10BaseT cards, an AUI, and
        a coax adapter.
    3Com donated a 3c501, two 3c503's, two 3c505's, a 3c523, and two
        EtherLink 16 cards.
    HP donated an Ethertwist (10BaseT) Hub, two 8-bit ISA
        Ethertwist cards, two 16-bit ISA Ethertwist cards,
        two MCA Ethertwist cards and two ISA Thinwire cards.
    D-Link donated a D-Link pocket lan adapter, a 8-bit card,
        and a 16-bit card.
    Digital Equipment donated a DEPCA card.
    Cabletron donated a 10BaseT card.
    MultiTech Systems donated two EN-series cards.
    Western Digital donated a WD8003E, and a wd8013EP.

Clarkson is an independent, coeducational university located in northern
New York, midway between the Adirondack Mountains and the St. Lawrence River.
The University has 3,600 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in
programs in its Schools of Engineering, Management, and Science as well as in
its Industrial Distribution Program and its Faculty of Liberal Studies.