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Re: HELP! 3COM 3C5X9 running ODI fine, but no ODIPKT telnet?!

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From: Pete Holsberg
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 00:00
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usts046@uabdpo.dpo.uab.edu (Douglas McLean) wrote:

>In article <4fere1$dbt@umbra.unr.edu>, ivo@cs.unr.edu (Ian (Ivo) Veach) says:
>>
>>We've got a new Dell P5-100 that has got a 3COM 5X9 "NIC" on it.  I've got
>>ODI/VLM running (novell login no problem) just spiffy, but cannot get the
>>ODI PKT driver to work (to run Winsock, NCSA DOS Telnet, etc).  Anyone
>>have any suggestions or running a similar setup on their LAN?  The
>>following info loads fine, as does winsock, but NCSA telnet reports
>>"network jammed; probable break in cable" and all win suite apps (ewan,
>>netscape) are dead in the water.  I've already updated to the latest 3COM
>>and netware drivers, to my knowledge... 
>>

>I would try changing two thing in the net.cfg... First I would add two
>lines at the top...
> 
>Link Support
>	Buffers 9 1600

>The second is that I don't know if you need the line 

>PROTOCOL IPX 8137 ETHERNET_II 

>You might want to take it out if your site is not using IPX over 
>ETHERNET_II frames...
> 
>We use the same drivers here, but we use version 3.0 of the packet 
>driver...

Do the old ODIPKT (Oct 94) and WINPKT (Oct 93) work with
VLM.EXE and the corresponding drivers?

Thanks,
Pete
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From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
Subject: Re: HELP! 3COM 3C5X9 running ODI fine, but no ODIPKT telnet?!
Date: 1996/02/21
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