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- From: don@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Don Stokes)
- Subject: Re: Is there a substitute for Lifeline ?
- Nntp-Posting-Host: rata.vuw.ac.nz
- Message-ID: <BzDyLu.4zA@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
- Organization: Victoria University of Wellington CSC
- Sender: news@comp.vuw.ac.nz (News Admin)
- References: <1992Dec15.194550.3823@searchtech.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 04:17:53 GMT
- Lines: 113
-
- kelly@searchtech.com (Kelly Thompson) writes:
- > I would like to find a substitute for Lifeline, hopefully
- > Windows compatible. I am running PCNFS 4.0 and am connected
- > to a Sun server that handles delivering the mail.
-
- We're using PC-NFS over packet drivers, and using PKTMUX/PKTDRV to allow
- POPMAIL to run. (We are also using NCSA Telnet with PC-NFS, since PC-NFS's
- Telnet is too broken to use the DNS and we don't run NIS on our machines.)
-
- CONFIG.SYS looks something like:
-
- SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM /e:1024 /p
- LASTDRIVE=Z
- DEVICE=C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS
- DEVICE=C:\NFS\PCNFS.SYS /m
- DEVICE=C:\NFS\SOCKDRV.SYS
- DEVICE=C:\PKTSTUFF\PKTD.SYS
-
- AUTOEXEC.BAT:
-
- REM Environment stuff
-
- PATH C:\DOS;C:\NCSA;C:\POPMAIL;C:\NFS
- SET CONFIGTEL=C:\NCSA\CONFIG.TEL
-
- REM Load packet drivers
-
- C:\PKTSTUFF\WD8003E 96 5 0x280 0xD400
- C:\PKTSTUFF\PKTMUX 2
- C:\PKTSTUFF\PKTDRV
- C:\PKTSTUFF\PKTDRV
-
- REM Load PC-NFS
-
- SET NFSDRIVE=C
- SET TZ=NZT-12NDT
- PRT *
- NFSRUN
-
- The stuff in C:\PKTSTUFF\....
-
- PKTD.SYS allows PC-NFS to run using packet drivers with cards that aren't
- directly supported. In this case, the WD8003E card is supported, but we
- need a packet driver for PKTMUX to work.
-
- PKTMUX & PKTDRV are TSRs that allow multiple access to a packet driver.
- Basically, PKTMUX hooks to the packet driver and provides common code for
- multiple PKTDRVs. PKTDRV is a virtual packet driver; you load as many of
- them as you need (I had to work hard to cram more than two packet-driver
- users into memory at once!); they talk to PKTMUX that in turn talk to
- a packet driver. PKTMUX has smarts that let it snoop into incoming packets
- and figure out from the protocol type, IP, TCP & UDP headers where to
- send them. For many things it just works; for some applications it needs
- to be given more information.
-
- WD8003E is the packet driver, which actually talks to the ethernet card.
- There are packet drivers (known as the Crynwr packet driver collection) for
- pretty much every type of card on the planet.
-
-
- FTP sites for this stuff are:
-
- POPMAIL:
- Host wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4)
- Last updated 06:27 23 Nov 1992
-
- Location: /systems/novell/email
- FILE rwxrwxr-x 112164 Jan 22 1991 popmail.zip
-
- Host boombox.micro.umn.edu (134.84.132.2)
- Last updated 06:40 23 Nov 1992
-
- Location: /pub/pc/popmail-3.0/program
- FILE rw-r--r-- 337542 Oct 27 20:18 popmail.exe
-
-
- PKTD.SYS:
- Host wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4)
- Last updated 06:27 23 Nov 1992
-
- Location: /mirrors2/cutcp
- FILE rw-rw-r-- 4928 Feb 19 1990 pktd.sys
-
- Host sun.soe.clarkson.edu (128.153.12.3)
- Last updated 06:17 16 Nov 1992
-
- Location: /pub/ka9q
- FILE rw-r--r-- 4949 May 16 1991 pnfspktd.35
-
-
- PKTMUX/PKTDRV:
-
- Host ftp.uu.net (137.39.1.9)
- Last updated 06:27 30 Nov 1992
-
- Location: /systems/ibmpc/msdos/simtel20/pktdrvr
- FILE rw-r--r-- 50991 Aug 12 16:00 pktmux11.zip
-
- Host wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4)
- Last updated 06:27 23 Nov 1992
-
- Location: /mirrors/msdos/pktdrvr
- FILE rw-r--r-- 50991 Aug 12 19:00 pktmux11.zip
-
-
- Packet drivers can be obtained from damn near anywhere; they should be
- in the sorts of places listed above.
-
-
- --
- Don Stokes, ZL2TNM (DS555) don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (home)
- Network Manager, Computing Services Centre don@vuw.ac.nz (work)
- Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. +64-4-495-5052
-