[161] in Resnet-Forum
Sharing of materials? (WAS: Windows and IP)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leo D. Geoffrion)
Wed Feb 23 12:18:29 1994
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 11:55:18 -0500
To: "Joe Holmes" <joe.holmes@Sonoma.EDU>
From: ldg@skidmore.EDU (Leo D. Geoffrion)
Cc: resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
We are about to begin the startup of residential networking this summer.
We have essentially the same setup as Joe Holmes describes below running on
our test machines. It looks quite good and goes a long way to achieve a
sense of parity with what the Mac community can do using MacTCP.
Now, we need to put into place the user documentation, installation
procedures, ... to allow people to install this stuff quickly and with
minimal staff intervention. I would love to start a sharing process for
these installation and training guides.
If there's sufficient interest, I'll be happy to make space on our gopher
server to facilitate the information sharing.
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> Subject: Time:8:00 AM
> OFFICE MEMO Windows and IP Date:2/23/94
>I've heard several poeople bemoan the difficulties involved in getting a
>DOS/Windows machine running IP software. We've had the same problems here,
>too.
>
>For ethernet, we've found an easier way to network PC's (at least, *I* think
>its easier. Can't speak for others, you know.). We are currently installing
>ODI on ethernet-connected PC's, and using a public-domain version of
>WinSockets for windows IP handling.
>
>The result is pretty nice - once you have the software configured, you can
>run WinSocket compliant software without further configuration. So far, we
>have collected several pubilc-domain versions of gopher, telnet, and news
>clients. And, you can run Mosaic with it.
>
>The downside is the several layers of drivers you must install. There is the
>Link Support Layer (LSL), the hardware driver, the ODI packet driver, and
>Winpacket.
>
>I don't know just this might fit in with using a BOOTP server.
>
>More options, more confusion,
>cjh
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