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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 11:54:18 EDT
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- Subject: BIG-LAN Digest, Volume 4, Number 49, Tuesday, July 21, 1992
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- BIG-LAN DIGEST Tuesday, 21 July 1992 Volume 4 : Issue 49
-
- Today's Topics:
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- Administrivia: Not everyone got Volume 4 Numbers 47 & 48
- Banyan Vines to RS6000
- How to detect PC network cards (A)
- Re: Network Adaptors
- SCO Unix
-
- Moderated by John Wobus, Syracuse University
-
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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 11:40:38 EDT
- From: BIG-REQ@SUVM
- Subject: Administrivia: Not everyone got Volume 4 Numbers 47 & 48
-
- BIG-LAN's distribution mechanism ran into a snag again so a lot of people
- did not get Volume 4 Number 47 and Volume 4 Number 48. I think the problem
- is solved, but I will watch this issue to see if it is distributed properly.
- Then I will resend the other two issues.
-
- If you received Numbers 47 & 48, then you will receive a second copy.
- Sorry about that. If you want to see them sooner or if you are missing
- Number 45 or 46, then you can retrieve them from the archives.
-
- John Wobus
- BIG-LAN Administrator
-
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-
- Date: Fri, 17 Jul 92 21:42:24 -0300
- From: Rob Spellman <rob@mother.bates.edu>
- Subject: Banyan Vines to RS6000
-
-
- >We are trying to connect an IBM RS6000 machine running an AIX 3.2 operating
- >system and a BANYAN VINES network . I need help about the whole procedure
- >Any suggestions ?
-
- First of all, there is a mailing list which is dedicated to Banyan
- Vines. The address of the mailing list is banyan-l@vm1.cc.uakron.edu
- (I think the bitnet address would be akronvm, but I'm not certain).
- To subscribe to this list, send the following to
- listserv@vm1.cc.uakron.edu:
-
- subscribe banyan-l <your name>
-
- As for connecting your vines lan to your rs 6000, you have two options
- that I know of. In the first option, you but some software from FTP
- Software called PCTCP that will coexist with the vines protocol stack,
- and allow your pcs to speak tcp/ip directly onto the lan.
-
- The second option requires you to purchase the tcp/ip routing option
- for one of your vines servers, and a different version of the FTP
- software. With this version, the tcp/ip is encapsulated within a
- vines packet, and then sent to the tcp/ip routing server, which strips
- the vines headers, and then forwards the tcp/ip packet on. One of the
- benefits of this option is that it will work over any network that is
- supported by vines, including arcnet and starlan. This would mean
- that your pcs on an arnet could speak tcp/ip.
-
- You must be careful when purchasing the PCTCP software. You want to
- make certain that you get the correct version. I'm sorry that I can't
- tell you versions since I'm away from the office right now, but if you
- send me email, I can send the information when I return to my office.
-
- Rob Spellman
- rob@mother.bates.edu
- Computing Support Services
- Bates College
- Lewiston, Maine
-
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-
- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 92 11:00:55 GMT
- From: ccdps@lux.levels.unisa.edu.au (Dan Shearer)
- Subject: How to detect PC network cards (A)
-
- > I am posting this question for our network technician. He would like to know
- > if anyone has come up with a way to determine what network adaptor (NIC)
- > exists in a PC through the software before logging into a network. For
- > example, the PCs on our campus will have either token ring or Ethernet cards
- > -- is there a way to check ahead of time which kind of card exists in the PC
- > before accessing the network?
-
- Kathie,
-
- There are a number of ways of doing this, depending on what your network is
- and what level of detail you want. One of the simplest methods relies on
- your network vendor having a device driver installed corresponding to the
- particular network card in that machine (which is almost certainly the case.)
- You can check the existence of device drivers from DOS, so if the driver
- for your card happens to be called ELNKII$ you can say:
-
- IF EXIST ELNKII$ ECHO There is a 3Com Etherlink II card installed
-
- If you don't know what the driver is called, a simple way to find out is
- to use DOS 5's MEM /D command, which lists the names of all drivers loaded.
- You can also use this method to determine the existence of extended memory,
- expanded memory, and so on. It is a very crude check, no staus info etc but
- works quite well.
-
- If you are using a packet driver you can query the packet driver for it's
- setup using an interrupt call - see Ralph Brown interrupt list for more
- details, or use CHECKSYS.EXE from Garbo or Simtel in the batch-file
- utility directories. CHECKSYS will do this for you, and return various
- errorlevels and also message.
-
- Another alternative is to write a program to detect network cards in much
- the same way as programs check for video cards. I have not seen a program
- that does this, but a resource would be the source code for all the
- different packet drivers which is readily available, if you were wanting
- to do it.
-
- - --
- Dan Shearer email: Dan.Shearer@UniSA.edu.au
- Computer Centre Phone: +61 8 302 3479
- University of South Australia Fax : +61 8 302 3385
-
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-
- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 92 11:22:29 -0400
- From: jbvb@ftp.com (James B. Van Bokkelen)
- Reply-To: jbvb-tech@ftp.com
- Subject: Re: Network Adaptors
-
-
- ... the PCs on our campus will have either token ring or Ethernet cards
- -- is there a way to check ahead of time which kind of card exists in
- the PC before accessing the network?
-
- For the general case, the problem is so big that nobody has tried to solve
- it (although it is solvable). There are hundreds of different network cards,
- and few, if any of the vendors have bothered to make them easy to identify
- from software on the PC. However, it might be easier to do what your site
- needs.
-
- If you can assume that the hardware has been installed right on the PC,
- and you use standard drivers (Packet, ODI, NDIS), you just write a little
- program that finds the driver and asks it what media it supports. Even if
- this isn't true of your Ethernet hardware, everything that talks 802.5 uses
- standard software drivers (either IBM's LAN Support Program or NDIS or ODI),
- so you can always recognize a correctly-installed 802.5. Then, the scale
- of your problem on Ethernet is mostly a matter of how many different kinds
- of cards your people are allowed to buy.
-
- James B. VanBokkelen 26 Princess St., Wakefield, MA 01880
- FTP Software Inc. voice: (617) 246-0900 fax: (617) 246-0901
-
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-
- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 13:50 EST
- From: 01WJGREENWOO@BSUVAX1.BITNET
- Subject: SCO Unix
-
- I need to know what would be required to run SCO Unix on an Intel 486. Is
- SCO Unix the best version of unix to run on an intel box? (Yes it must be
- an intel box.) Is there public domain software available fo nameserving,
- bootp etc. and where do I get it? Who do I contact to acquire SCO Unix?
- What are the hardware requirements?
-
- We have a rapidly growing campus wide network composed of ethernet segments
- connected to Cisco routers. Currently nameserving is running on an IBM
- mainframe under VM. We would like to move nameservering off the mainframe
- and onto a Unix based platform. At the same time we would like to begin
- providing additional services such as RARP and Bootp. Another possible
- application is a mail server.
-
- I would like to hear anyone experiences with this approach. (using SCO Unix)
-
- Thank you for your time and help.
-
- Bill Greenwood
- Network Analyst
- Ball State University
- Bitnet: 00wjgreenwoo@bsuvax1
- Internet: 00wjgreenwoo@bsu.edu
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