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From: [e-mail] (Robin Bowes)
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Subject: Re: Help Unloading Sockets

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (James) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (James)
>Subject: Help Unloading Sockets
>Date: Thu, 12 May 1994 00:30:29 GMT

>We have a Microsoft LanMan 2.2b network running on a bunch of PS/2's.
>In order to save on our already scarce memory, we need to unload the
>sockets driver after an exit from Windows.  However, this ALWAYS
>causes the machine to crash -- no error message, just when you
>type sockets /u, it dies.  We are using the sockets provided with
>LanMan.

>Does anyone know anything at all about this problem, and more
>importantly, what to do about it?

I spent bloody ages trying to get sockets to work with LanMangler.  I think I
eventually did get a rather flaky system set up but because of all the TSRs
that were required, it only left about 380K free memory (even with QEMM!).  So
I gave up on the idea of sockets.

Then I tried Trumpet Winsock which works with a packet driver or the
NDIS-to-packet driver Shim "DIS_PKT.DOS".  And it couldn't be easier !  The
driver uses 2720 bytes and the one necessary TSR uses 2544 bytes (both in the
High memory area !).  I haven't looked back since !

Robin
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Subject: Re: 32 bit access with SCSI no available. Hunh? was Re: Win Mosaic alpha 4 (my fix)

In article <2qrdb3$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Jeff Hayes) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Jeff Hayes)
>Subject: 32 bit access with SCSI no available. Hunh? was Re: Win Mosaic alpha 4 (my fix)
>Date: 11 May 1994 19:57:23 GMT

>In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Matt Pierce) writes:
>_]>Everything about my system says overkill (which is why it was named
>_]>Goliath). However, the only thing I *can't* get it to do is 32-bit disk
>_]>access. I think it has to do with the disk system being SCSI based but I
>_]
>_]You have hit the problem right on the head.  32-bit disk access turns on the
>_]the 32-bit block access mode that is, for some strange reason, turned off by
>_]default on IDE hard drives.

>        On my new 486 system the 32 bit check box was not even present on
>        the virtual memory dialog box!   So I can't set it on.   What
>        Gives?

>        I have an adaptec bus mastering VLB SCSI ctlr running the hard
>        drive?  Is this a feature?  Do I have 32 bit transfer running
>        already?
>--

The SCSI controller must directly control the hard drive.  32-bit disk access
in Windows directly controls the hard drive; the SCSI controller doesn't like
this.  To the best of my knowledge a Fast SCSI-2 controller is 16 bits wide,
and 10MB/sec sustained transfer.  A Fast-and-Wide SCSI-2 should be 32 bits
wide.

In short, with SCSI you can not use 32 bit disk access, as this makes Windows
attempt to take over the hard drive, and SCSI drives can only be controlled by
the SCSI controller.  I'm not sure if you can use Windows for Workgroups
32-bit FILE access.

-- Dave
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Subject: Re: Anyone have problems:  Trumpet->SOLARIS??

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Michael Lee Raymer) writes:
>I have Trumpet set up with nice large values for mtu, rwin, and mss.   For
>most machines I get real nice throughput.
[...]
>In order to connect to those machines on our campus (and beyond) that are
>running Solaris, I have to lower all the values quite a bit:
>mtu     = 256
>rwin    = 768
>mss     = 216
>
>This works, but is somewhat slower.  Has anyone else experienced anything
>similar.  Any ideas why?

I have mailed you Locomotive Software's "tuning.faq". Although this is
mostly about tuning KA9Q, read section 11 entitled "Fragmentation" which
is the answer to your question.

Since it's over 1,000 lines long, and since Locomotive request that it
only be redistributed un-edited, I'm not posting the whole thing here.
Please address further requests for it to [e-mail] (replies
set thither), or else by the time you read this it may have been placed
on ftp.demon.co.uk:/pub/docs/KA9Q.

Nick Leverton
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Subject: Where can I get WINSOCK?

I've decided to try and get the Cello WWW client working and am looking for
a version of winsock, my Cello documentation reccomends trumpet winsock.

Anyone know where I can ftp a copy from?

Thanks...
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From: [e-mail] (Michael K. Brown)
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Subject: WinSock

I'd really be interested in trying to get winsock to work on my 486 PC at
home.  I'd like to connect to the computer system at work....Are there an
shareware drivers for Slip/PPP/etc on the Unix Workstation side???

Thanks in Advance,

Michael Brown