RE: Mr. ISDN, TCP/IP Stack
alexdonnini@corporateink.com
Mon, 10 Jun 96 10:42:30 -0500
I have tested a number of TCP/IP stacks with a PM-2er and a 5-port ISDN board.
The ones tested include: FTP's, TGV's, Frontier's, Spry and Softronics. None of
them will give you the functionality you are looking for (i.e. on-demand dialing
with dynamic IP address assignment). They all miss a critical piece which you
can call a "virtual" dialer. I would love to be proven wrong on this, but I
called all of the vendors listed above and Netmanage (whose package I did not
test). They all confirmed my test results.
The only exception to the above is if you have a dedicated connection with a
static IP address on the ISP side). In this case, FTP's PCTCP should work (with
considerable help from FTP). TGV's upcoming Multinet 2.0 should also work (again
with a lot of help from the vendor). Of the others, I think Frontier's Super TCP
should work.
I hope this helps.
On Sun, 9 Jun 1996, John Gardy <jgardy@alma.net> wrote:
>Greetings,
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>Please forgive me if it's a repeat. Could some kind soul point me
>to the right place for a TCP/IP stack. I am told that I need to
>install it on our each LAN machine to be able to use a web browser
>and eudora. We are using windows for workgroups 3.11 and we are
>connected to the Internet via ISDN using PM's Office Router (OR-U).
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>I checked "www.microsoft.com" that has it for win95 only.
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>You may send me your reply direct.
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>TIA.
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>J. Gardy
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