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- From: jcl@bdrc.bd.com (John C. Lusth)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: help with TRUMPET
- Message-ID: <1088@bdrc.bdrc.bd.com>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 16:20:07 GMT
- Sender: news@bdrc.bdrc.bd.com
- Lines: 32
- Nntp-Posting-Host: otis.bdrc.bd.com
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- There is some talk going around my organization of using VAX-NOTES
- as a way to provide news services to our VAXEN, PCs, MACs, and SUNs(!).
- Of course, we already have an NNTP server on one of our SUNS and
- our other SUNS and MACs are NNTP clients. Now I thought that there
- might be some software available for the PCs (the majority of
- computers here) for setting them up as NNTP clients. Scanning the
- handy dandy SIMTEL archives, I found TRUMPET, a NNTP client news reader
- for the PC, and a collection of packet drivers from Crynwr. I downloaded
- these files and tried them out.
-
- BTW, our PCs are networked together using Pathworks and DEPCA (?)
- Ethernet cards.
-
- The only way I could 'ping' our NNTP host was to be booted under Pathworks
- and load this DEPCA driver from FTP Software. Unfortunately, TRUMPET
- would indicate that no packet driver was loaded. Using the Crynwr
- DEPCA driver would make TRUMPET happy but I could not ping our host
- and thus TRUMPET stalled.
-
- I'm at a loss with what to do next.
-
- Would someone give my the basic steps on how to configure my PC to
- run TRUMPET? I do mean basic because a networking whiz I am not!
- Remember, you will save many innocent people from VAX-NOTES!
-
- Thanks muchly,
-
- john
-
- ps. I hope this is the correct group!
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- John C. Lusth, Becton Dickinson Research Center, RTP, NC, USA jcl@bdrc.bd.com
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