[166] in Resnet-Forum
FW: Sharing of materials? (WAS: Windows and IP)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ron Pike)
Wed Feb 23 18:21:48 1994
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 12:13:31 -0800
From: Ron Pike <Ron_Pike@macgate.csuchico.edu>
To: resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
X-Envelope-To: resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
My name is Ron Pike and I'm with California State University, Chico. I would
love to see a sharing of this type take place. We're just starting to
address this issue and I know a sharing of user documentation would be
extremly beneficial for us. Perhaps once we get going we'll have something
to give back to the group.
Ron Pike
Network Manager
California State University, Chico
rpike@csuchico.edu
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To: Joe Holmes
Cc: resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
From: Leo D. Geoffrion on Wed, Feb 23, 1994 9:36 AM
Subject: Sharing of materials? (WAS: Windows and IP)
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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