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- From: steve%cstat.aztec.co.za@ucthpx.uct.ac.za
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Running NDIS-based stack on a packet driver
- Date: 11 Jan 1993 12:36:22 -0600
- Organization: Compustat (Pty) Ltd
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- A plea for help (what else)... can anyone get me out of this spot?
-
- In case you don't want to read all the ramble, the main thing that I
- (think I) need is:
-
- - A shim that will connect an NDIS client with a packet
- driver. I.E. the _opposite_ of DIS_PKT.
- OR - An NDIS MAC driver for Arcnet that does the equivalent of
- ARCETHER, that complies with RFC1201, and works.
-
- Thanks!
-
-
-
- Here is the full story...
- =========================
-
- I need to get a NDIS-based TCP/IP product talking on an ARCNET network.
-
- The product is the "Reflection Network Series" from Walker, Richer & Quinn.
- I have to use this because it supports the proprietary NS/VT protocol
- that is needed to log in to our HP3000.
-
-
- A NetWare 3.11 server gateways IP traffic on the Arcnet over to our
- Ethernet. The Netware server expects IP traffic on the Arcnet to comply
- with RFC1201, I believe.
-
- I have no problems Telnetting to our Unix systems using the ARCETHER
- packet driver with TN3270, WinQVT etc.
-
-
- What I have tried
- =================
-
- I obtained a NDIS MAC driver for Arcnet, MSARC.DOS. This describes
- itself as "Microsoft ARCnet Driver (c) Copyright 1990 Microsoft
- Corporation". It is dated 1990-11-29.
-
- When I try to ping the Netware server, it does not respond to the
- ARP. Inspection of the packets being transmitted shows that this driver
- seems to be encapsulating ordinary DIX-format frames within an Arcnet
- frame with protocol byte hex E8. This is not the RFC1201 format the the
- Netware file server is looking for.
-
-
- My next idea was to use old reliable ARCETHER with a packet-driver to
- NDIS shim. But where to find such a shim?? DIS_PKT does exactly the
- opposite of what I want. But where is the reverse gear... :-)
-
-
- The third idea was to go via ODI along these lines:
-
- ARCETHER talks to the Arcnet card, converts RFC1201 <-> DIX Ethernet
- LSL the ODI link-support-layer
- PDETHER ODI MLID that talks to ARCETHER packet-driver.
- ODINSUP NDIS MAC driver that talks to ODI
-
- I thought this was *awfully* clever. Unfortunately (!), PDETHER only
- supports the Ethernet_II (DIX) frame format, and ODINSUP requires support
- for all the others too (Ethernet_802.3, Ethernet_802.2 and
- Ethernet_SNAP). D*mn.
-
- [ARCETHER from Packet driver release 10; PDETHER v1.01, Nov 01 '91;
- ODINSUP v1.21, Nov 13, '92]
-
-
- This shouldn't be so hard. Can anyone help?? Please?
-
- Steve
-
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- Stephen Davies, Compustat (Pty) Ltd, Cape Town
- steve%cstat.aztec.co.za@ucthpx.uct.ac.za
-
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- Stephen Davies, Compustat (Pty) Ltd, Cape Town
- steve%cstat.aztec.co.za@ucthpx.uct.ac.za
-