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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
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Subject: Re: PC MCA ethernet card driver
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Date: 8 Dec 88 06:53:12 GMT
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In article <8812051923.AA18318@vax.ftp.com> jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James Van Bokkelen) writes:
%Regarding the NT Lanstar, I think that it is supported by Banyan's VINES
%LAN operating system.  If so, you can get a version of our PC/TCP from
%them which will send IP packets over Lanstar encapsulated in VINES IPC
%packets, and let the VINES server act as an IP router to forward them
%onto another network.
%
%If you want to send IP in a native encapsulation on Lanstar, you will need
%to define one first, and then develop some sort of IP router to get the
%packets onto more widely-used LANs.  This will be quite a bit of work,
%but such is life...
%
%James VanBokkelen
%FTP Software Inc.

Bill Doster did some work with this a year and a half ago. This was also
with KA9Q. The KA9Q package worked well for the task, with both the Lanstar
and ethernet cards active.
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