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In article <.2.0@>, henrik@itekiris.kjemi.unit.no (Henrik Gudbrandsen) writes:

   Our department are connected to a campus network and have access to mail/
   news etc.  In addition we are using Lantastic for printersharing/
   fileserver. (100+ users)

   My question is: Is there a way to run both tcp/ip-based software
   (clarkson drivers (?)) and Lantastic at the same time on one
   network card?

Yes and no.  I've tried to persuade Lantastic to make a version of
their AILANBIOS that runs over packet drivers.  This is the ideal
solution.  I've even offered to write the driver for free, if they
gave me a copy of their driver development kit.

The problem is that Artisoft doesn't hear from all these users who
want to run Lantastic over packet drivers.  You need to tell them
that it solves a problem for you, and that you'll buy more copies of
Lantastic if it does.

A less-than-ideal solution is to encapsulate Ethernet packets in
NetBIOS packets, but it requires a gateway machine.  See NB.NOT.

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