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- From: rcq@FTP.COM (Bob Quinn)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Re: How to communicate with packet drivers
- Message-ID: <9301281618.AA17223@ftp.com>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 16:18:07 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Reply-To: rcq@ftp.com
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- Organization: The Internet
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- Hi Kevin!
-
- > I am writing an MS-DOS application that will work like lpr. I would like to
- > know if there is a "standard" way for applications to communicate with
- > packet drivers, and where I could find information about that. If there
- > is not, I am using a WD8003 card and the packet driver wd8003e.com that comes
- > with it. Could anyone help me find information about using that particular
- > packet driver, at least? Thanks...
- >
- > -Kevin
- > kpb@springs.cis.ufl.edu
-
- Any Packet Driver, by definition, has a standard interface which
- adheres to the packet driver interface standard. The latest
- version (v1.09) can anonymously ftp'd from vax.ftp.com in
- /pub/packet-d.*, it will give you details of how to use the API.
-
- Just so you know, the Packet Driver is a Media Access Control
- (MAC) layer driver (layer 2 in the OSI model). In other words,
- it doesn't have the Network or Transport layers (3 and 4 in the
- OSI model, respectively). You will need network and transport
- to implement the lpr application protocol.
-
- Rather than trying to tackle implementation of the TCP/IP protocol
- suite you may be better off finding a stack with a higher level
- API available (like Berkeley Sockets).
-
- Good Luck!
- --
- Bob Quinn rcq@ftp.com
- FTP Software, Inc. No. Andover, MA
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