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- From: ddl@burrhus.harvard.edu (Dan Lanciani)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Re: Problems with KA9Q and ARCNET
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.002219.4498@burrhus.harvard.edu>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 00:22:19 GMT
- References: <1992Sep6.094826.15321@rhrk.uni-kl.de>
- Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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- In article <1992Sep6.094826.15321@rhrk.uni-kl.de>, puder@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Arno Puder) writes:
- |
- | I seem to have an old version of the KA9Q package. When I tried
- | to run it with my ARCNET (ATTACH PACKET...) it responded "un-
- | supported type class 8". Interesting enough the documentation
- | said that it should work. I logged on to Archie and got a couple
- | of dozens of references. Which one works with ARCNET?
-
- It is my impression that most of the world has given up on
- class 8 packet drivers. Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the
- current ARCnet packet driver fake class 1? I know that the general
- consensus was that ODIPKT should do this when it sees an ODI ARCnet
- driver, and thus it does. At least, it does by default. You can
- assemble it for class 8, but I was never able to find an ARCnet-supporting
- version of KA9Q tcp/ip to test that mode with!
-
- Dan Lanciani
- ddl@harvard.*
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