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- From: h198@hosp.med.umich.edu (Gene Mangum)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
- Subject: Follow-up to Dreamin' - Serial NDIS!
- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 10:14 EDT
- Organization: Univ of Michigan Hospitals
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- I had promised to post some info about the serial-line NDIS drivers when I
- got them working. Well, here it is!
-
- This package (NBR11I.ZIP on hobbes) provides 2 things: an NDIS MAC-layer
- driver which talks over a serial line, and an NDIS Protocol-layer bridge
- function driver which can bridge network frames between 2 MAC interfaces.
-
- It was written by Micheal Reid. There are versions for DOS and OS/2.
- There are also 386-specific and non-386 versions. All are in the same
- zip file.
-
- You can use this software in 2 configurations: to connect 2 machines
- together with modems or a null-modem cable, and run NDIS software between
- them. The drivers can appear as either Ethernet or Token-Ring drivers.
- More interestingly (to me anyway), you can set up, say, your system at
- work which has a LAN connection to act as a bridge. This looks to the
- LAN like a real bridge. Then you can dial into this system from, say,
- your home machine, and run it as if you're connected to the LAN.
-
- I've been exchanging EMail with Mike for the last several weeks trying
- to get a bridge configuration running on a Token-Ring LAN using Comm
- Manager. I finally got a working connection on Thursday by moving the
- bridge machine to the same Ring as the devices I was trying to communicate
- with (i.e. 3174 gateway and IP router). My 3270 sessions and IBM TCP/IP
- ran over the modem just fine (although no *quite* as fast as the real TR :-)
-
- Apparently there is some sort of source routing problem with the software,
- but I have every confidence that Mike will be able to solve it. He is
- very knowledgable in networking. He has used the package for IBM Lan
- Server and MS Lan Manager. I may be one of the first to use it with
- Comm Mgr, not sure. Anyway, this software has alot of promise for
- those who want LAN connectivity from home, but can't get our employers
- to run the LAN 15 miles to our house :-) I'll post more info as
- progress is made on solving the source routing problem.
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