1. Packet drivers, V10

A packet driver is a device driver for the network interface card. Packet drivers for most Ethernet NIU's were developed Clarkson University. It is now supported by Crynwr Software, 11 Grant St., Potsdam, NY 13676 (315)268-1925.


2. TCP/IP software

There are many types of public domain TCP/IP software. They are b basically categorized into two types:

-> NCSA (National Center of Supercomputing Applications) Telnet family: NCSA Telnet V2.3 for PCs and NCSA Telnet V2.6 for MACs

-> Serial communications software, which is able to send TCP/IP packets over relatively low speed dialup telephone lines. This software communicates using PPP (Point to Point Protocol) or SLIP (Serial Line IP).

telnet for remote login (NCSA)

ftp for transferring files (NCSA)

We have also added the following utilities:

lpr for printing on a remote print server (Paul Hilchey, copyright U. British Columbia)

popmail for sending/receiving Internet mail (boombox.micro.umn.edu, U. Minnesota)

• Version 4 of the Startup Kit includes TCP/IP for Microsoft Windows. which has become the platform of choice for many PC users. We are very pleased to be able to make this available.

• A Note on Netscape: Netscape is a popular Web browser for Windows. We were not able to include it in the Network Starter Kit for licensing reasons, however it is legal for educational institutions to download and use it.

• If your machine is connected to the Internet, you may download Netscape via anonymous ftp from: ftp.netscape.com. Login as anonymous, password is your email address (e.g. joeb@anymachine.domain).

• The Netscape file is located in the directory /pub and is called n16e11n.exe. Download this file using binary transfer mode., then create a local directory for it, e.g. \netscape, and copy the file to this directory.

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