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From: fargo@iear.arts.rpi.edu (Irwin M. Fargo)
Subject: Re: Sun's PC-NFS and packet drivers
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References: <fkygs7h@rpi.edu> <5849@eastapps.East.Sun.COM>
Date: 4 May 91 11:45:33 GMT
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In article <5849@eastapps.East.Sun.COM> geoff@east.sun.com (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) writes:
>Quoth fargo@iear.arts.rpi.edu (Irwin M. Fargo) (in <fkygs7h@rpi.edu>):
>#Has anyone here had any success with using the PKTD.SYS device driver
>#with PC-NFS?
>#
>#I was able to get PC-NFS working with a 3C501 Ethernet card to mount some
>#drives from a PC running SOSS with a 3C501.
>#
>#But, when I replaced the DEVICE=c:\nfs\3c501.sys with DEVICE=c:\pktd.sys
>#and loaded the 3C501 packet driver, PC-NFS would gives me errors saying
>#that it couldn't connect to the file server.
>
>You're not trying to run SOSS and PC-NFS at the same time, are you?
>Somebody pass this guy a copy of the FAQ list... the bit where it talks
>about the impracticability of running two independent IP-based
>stacks over the same interface...
>
I was runing SOSS and PC-NFS on different machines.

And, unfortunately, I read about the problem of multiple IP-based stacks over
the same interface in the latest BYTE (not bad reading if you're new to
packet drivers).

Also, from Youda He's article, it seems I'm not the only person having this
problem.  Am I missing any vital documentation concerning PKTD.SYS?  I found
it lying about on omnigate.clarkson.edu with only a pcnfs.readme file for
documentation.

I also experienced Youda's problem.  When I tried running any programs off
of the server, the client machine would crash and the server machine would
spew forth a "NFS_READ truncate 1024".

Any suggestions?  I would really like to get this setup working with packet
drivers as I'd like to port it to a token ring network.

Thanks.

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