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- From: jbvb@FTP.COM ("James B. Van Bokkelen")
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Re: ODI information requested.
- Message-ID: <9301121728.AA20358@ftp.com>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 17:28:23 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- I know that ODI and the Packet driver Spec. both support many protocols
- but can you load up 2 protocol applications onto a particular Frame type
- and protocol using ODI like when you use pktmux? For instance is it
- possible to load up two TCP/IP stacks on Ethernet II frame type and
- send/receive from both applications?
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- It is impossible to guarantee complete co-existence of two different
- IP protocol stacks using a single IP address over a link-layer API
- like ODI or the PDS. PKTMUX tries hard, but it would need more
- information than it can obtain to support all TCP/IP functions.
- As it happens, ODI and PDS both explicitly register packet types, so
- you'll get an error if you try to register a type twice. NDIS doesn't
- explicitly register types, but it still doesn't guarantee that it can
- deliver the same packet to two different stacks.
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