Re: Drivers for 3Com Etherlink III - 3C589B?

[Valentine Anantharaj <val@cast.msstate.edu>]

On 27 Jul 1995, Michael Verne/VENTANA wrote:

> 
> I'm not sure what all of your needs are, but the tcp/ip stack that comes with 
> the WFWG license (WinTCP) serves all of our thinkpads beautifully for inet 
> access over the LAN.  We use the Xircom, not 3Com, cards, but we don't need no 
> steenking Trumpet to get T1 speed ftp/telnet/www etc.  not sure what you mean 
> by SLIP over the LAN, unless you mean redirecting a com port to a network modem 
> & SLIPing in from there, in which case you will need something more than 
> WinTCP.  But if your inet server is on your LAN, all you need is the ip 
> addresses of the server & the gateway to get there with WinTCP (you'll also 
> avoid spending windoze memory on a third party product).
> 

I do not plan to run SLIP over LAN, just ftp and telnet.  I will use SLIP 
with the modem.  I understand that Trumpet supports SLIP.

The TP has plain vanilla MS Windows 3.11, not WfWG 3.11 and no WinTCP, 
unless I have to upgrade to WfWG.

Regards,

VGA (val@cast.msstate.edu)


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