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In <3_800_842_fidonet2b511b0d@Kralizec.fido.zeta.org.au> michael.smith@f842.n800.z3.fido.zeta.org.au (michael smith) writes:

>Original to: s19184@seb.se
>In a message of <31 Dec 92 20:27:54>, s19184@seb.se (3:713/602) writes:

> s> I have been thinking about the same thing. I know there are Ethernet
> s> cards for various ST-models in Germany, but I think that most of them
> s> are for Megas (ie expansion bus machines).

>There are drivers for a couple of VME ethernet boards as well...

And for the ACSI (DMA) port as well...

> s> The thought that struck me the other day (it did not hurt ;-) was that
> s> there are many "pocket" LAN adapters available for portable PCs. These
> s> plug onto the parallel port and supply a Token Ring or Ethernet
> s> (Thinwire or 10BaseT) connection.
> s> 
> s> Now an ST could not use the PC drivers which are supplied with the
> s> adapter, but the hardware could be of use even for my old 1040 STF.
> s> Has anyone looked at what is required to drive one of these adapters,
> s> and worked out what would be required to drive it though the ST
> s> parallel port instead?

>Yeah, unless they've changed them recently, you can't.  It's like with the
>pocket harddisks - the PC's parallel port has a pile of extra control lines
>that the ST doesn't, and you need these.  When I looked at the Xircom
>adapter a while ago, it seemed dependant on these extra lines.

We are using a DLINK DE600 pocket adapter on the cartridge port of
our STs with a selfmade interface and software. You can find details
on our host "fortec.tuwien.ac.at" via anonymous ftp.

> s> Personally, I am most interested in a NFS client, as I have just
> s> collected the SOSS NFS server for the PC, but I imagine that the
> s> appetite would grow as soon as the function became available.
> s> 
> s> Is this anything more than an old man's wild ideas?

>Argh! Ick!   I looked at NFS in detail a while ago - the compromises you
>have to make to get it to work at all in a PC-size environment are
>_horrible_... but it _could_ be done.  The real problem is actually
>implementing anything other than a super-low performance TCP/IP stack - if
>you do nasty things and minimise your buffering, it's not so bad
>implmentation-wise, but your performance will suck.

I too had the idea to port a NFS client (SOSS) but didn't have the time
until now.

> s> /Mike

>\`miff`                                                       /|\

Peter.

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Dipl.-Ing. Peter Mayer             fortec -  Rehabilitation Engineering Group
Institute for Electronics          University of Technology - Vienna, Austria
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