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From: Tony C. Cheng <tcheng@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: RE: NCSAT vs. AT&T Lan Manager
Message-ID: <1991May30.194544.26351@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
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Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 30 May 91 19:45:44 GMT
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Several kind netters had sent me mails or posted comments concerning my
question.  Following is a mail from John at netcom.com which has the 
exact infomation I wanted to know.  

John, the mail I sent to netcom.com for you were all bounced back.  I think
you wouldn't mind my posting your mail here.  

I checked cica.cica.indiana.edu for dis_pkt.dos, but couldn't find anything
like that.  They might have purged it.  I also looked into Clarkson's machine
for that file, neither could I find it there.  If there is one, it could be
packed inside a certain file.  

Anyway, if you know any other place where I can find it, please send me
mail again or post a note here.  I really look forward to the implementation
of NCSAT on our AT&T Lan Manager network.


Thanks./_Tony
.............
Educ. Tech. Services
Indiana University


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>You need to get the Packet Driver to NDIS driver adapter (dis_pkt.dos. It's
>on your own machine over there (cica.cica.indiana.edu). You will use this
>instead of the clarkson packet driver. What you want to do is have Lan Man-
>ager and NDIS talking to the same NDIS MAC driver. You will have Lan Man
>talking to the NDIS MAC driver and NCSA will be talking to dis_pkt.dos
>which will then be talking to the NDIS MAC driver.
>
>If you get dis_pkt.dos from cica, it'll have a doc file with it that'll
>explain how to configure dis_pkt and StarGROUP. When dis_pkt is installed and
>running, it looks just like a packet driver to NCSA.
>
>If you need anymore help, let me know (I'm assuming that the dis_pkt doc
>will get you there).
>
>BTW: Netbind is the NDIS program that "binds" the different protocol drivers
>together into a single stack (in your case the NDIS MAC driver, StarGROUP's
>OSI driver and dis_pkt.dos). It's run when you do a ATTSTART. The first thing
>ATTSTART does is a netbind (if you look at LANMAN.INI in \lanman.dos, you'll
>see the NETBIND command at the bottom of the file).
>
>-- 
> John Robert Breeden, 
>    jbreeden@netcom.com, apple!netcom!jbreeden, ATTMAIL:!jbreeden
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> "The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose 
>  from. If you don't like any of them, you just wait for next year's 
>  model."

