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