Date: Sun, 8 Jan 1995 07:34:46 -0800 (PST) From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: "Hugh S. Ellis" <hellis@domus.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TCP/IP stack for PCs Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950108073052.20365B-100000@efn.org> In-Reply-To: <199501040144.UAA00314@domus.domus.com>
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On Tue, 3 Jan 1995, Hugh S. Ellis wrote: > > Hi there, > > I will be using my FreeBSD system as a firewall through which my users > will connect to the Internet. (Network's not connected yet since my firewall > isn't quite ready :( > > While FreeBSD is really cool, I think I may get some resistance to converting > all my users from DOS to FreeBSD. Given that they may be running DOS, or > worse, DOS + Novell, what is the best way to allow them to access my FreeBSD > server? since you are running Novell... you might want to look at Lan Workplace for dos.. it provides a TCP/IP stack while using the ODI drivers allowing them to coexist quite nicely... then if you need packet driver interface... you can use a program called ODIPKT... it will provide a pktdriver interface over the ODI driver... but it doesn't use the TCP/IP stack... it uses it own stack.... > > I have been told that there are some reasonable public domain TCP stacks for > PCs running Windows. Any recomsmendations as to what I should be looking for? > Also, if I can tune up my firewall, I would like to get them running X. Are > there versions of X for MS-Windows out there? What is likely to be most > compatible with my FreeBSD system? and as some one else mentioned... Xappeal... I know that it should be on a SimTel mirror in the xwindows directory... Hope this works... TTYL... John-Mark Gurney gurney_j@efn.org -or- gurney_j@4j.lane.edu -or- Fido: John-Mark Gurney @ 1:152/56.2
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