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- From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking,comp.sys.novell
- Subject: Re: Packet Driver, NW Requestor and OS/2 ?
- Date: 11 Nov 1992 14:05:01 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <1992Nov10.164359.21034@sol.UVic.CA> <Bx5rLM.L29@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
- Reply-To: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
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-
- In a previous article, jverreau@sol.uvic.ca () says:
-
- >Joern Westermann asked:
- >> Is it possible to run a packet driver application inside a DOS Window
- >> under OS/2 _and_ the Netware Requestor?
- >> I want to run the Charon Mailserver inside this window so I don't have
- >> to set up an extra computer for it.
- >> I installed the IPXPKT driver and then tried to start Charon. Charon
- >> found the Mailqueue, but then dumped my screen with the repeated message
- >> "Warn: Error -1 from Set Preferred Server (nwserver0)". Of course
- >> Charon didn't work.
- >> Any hints, even for running NCSA telnet inside the DOS session, are
- >> welcome.
- >
- >
- >Well Joern, we have been trying much the same thing and trying to run any
- >kind of packet driver set up with OS/2 and NetWare didn't work too well if
- >at all. We ended up going for IBM's TCP/IP 1.2.1 product for OS/2. Even with
- >using it took half a dozen people from IBM, SMC (our NIC supplier) and Novell
- >to figure out all the config.sys, net.cfg and protocol.ini files. NCSA telnet
- >just doesn't work yet with the OS/2-Novell combination. What appears to be the
- >problem is that the Requester grabs hold of the NIC and won't let the packet
- >drivers for Telnet access. The TCP/IP product I mentioned above seems to have
- >solved this. If you ever do figure out a way to make them work please let
- >the rest of us know.
- >
-
-
- I don't think that it will be possible to load a packet driver once an os2
- ndis or odi driver is loaded.
-
- From what I've picked up on the net, it should be possible to write a virtual
- packet driver for os/2 dos sessions. I could work like vipx.sys does, but
- instead of providing vitual ipx support, it would provide a vitual packet
- driver interface.
-
- However, I don't think anything like that has been written yet.
-
- Does anyone have any clues as to what has to be done to write such a thing?
-
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