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- From: pm@fortec.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Mayer)
- Subject: Re: TCP/IP for the ST and LAN Server
- Message-ID: <pm.727688838@fortec.tuwien.ac.at>
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- Organization: Technical University of Vienna
- References: <3_800_842_fidonet2b511b0d@Kralizec.fido.zeta.org.au>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 07:47:18 GMT
- Lines: 59
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- In <3_800_842_fidonet2b511b0d@Kralizec.fido.zeta.org.au> michael.smith@f842.n800.z3.fido.zeta.org.au (michael smith) writes:
-
- >Original to: s19184@seb.se
- >In a message of <31 Dec 92 20:27:54>, s19184@seb.se (3:713/602) writes:
-
- > s> I have been thinking about the same thing. I know there are Ethernet
- > s> cards for various ST-models in Germany, but I think that most of them
- > s> are for Megas (ie expansion bus machines).
-
- >There are drivers for a couple of VME ethernet boards as well...
-
- And for the ACSI (DMA) port as well...
-
- > s> The thought that struck me the other day (it did not hurt ;-) was that
- > s> there are many "pocket" LAN adapters available for portable PCs. These
- > s> plug onto the parallel port and supply a Token Ring or Ethernet
- > s> (Thinwire or 10BaseT) connection.
- > s>
- > s> Now an ST could not use the PC drivers which are supplied with the
- > s> adapter, but the hardware could be of use even for my old 1040 STF.
- > s> Has anyone looked at what is required to drive one of these adapters,
- > s> and worked out what would be required to drive it though the ST
- > s> parallel port instead?
-
- >Yeah, unless they've changed them recently, you can't. It's like with the
- >pocket harddisks - the PC's parallel port has a pile of extra control lines
- >that the ST doesn't, and you need these. When I looked at the Xircom
- >adapter a while ago, it seemed dependant on these extra lines.
-
- We are using a DLINK DE600 pocket adapter on the cartridge port of
- our STs with a selfmade interface and software. You can find details
- on our host "fortec.tuwien.ac.at" via anonymous ftp.
-
- > s> Personally, I am most interested in a NFS client, as I have just
- > s> collected the SOSS NFS server for the PC, but I imagine that the
- > s> appetite would grow as soon as the function became available.
- > s>
- > s> Is this anything more than an old man's wild ideas?
-
- >Argh! Ick! I looked at NFS in detail a while ago - the compromises you
- >have to make to get it to work at all in a PC-size environment are
- >_horrible_... but it _could_ be done. The real problem is actually
- >implementing anything other than a super-low performance TCP/IP stack - if
- >you do nasty things and minimise your buffering, it's not so bad
- >implmentation-wise, but your performance will suck.
-
- I too had the idea to port a NFS client (SOSS) but didn't have the time
- until now.
-
- > s> /Mike
-
- >\`miff` /|\
-
- Peter.
-
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- Institute for Electronics University of Technology - Vienna, Austria
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