| Title: | FDDI - The Next Generation |
| Moderator: | NETCAD::STEFANI |
| Created: | Thu Apr 27 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2259 |
| Total number of notes: | 8590 |
Does the DEFEA support a Banyan server?
Thanks,
Allen
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| 1364.1 | 4678::STEFANI | Have the # for the Mars Observer? | Wed Jun 08 1994 13:25 | 13 | |
No. Currently, third-party NIC vendors have to bay BIG BUCKS to Banyan
to have them write a server driver for their proprietary server
architecture. They've gotten beaten up for this over the years, so now
they're supposedly migrating towards one of the more "industry
standard" architectures (ODI or NDIS 3.0). When that happens, we
should be able to more easily port our drivers. However, there is
currently little business case for the Banyan-specific server driver.
If you HAVE a reasonable business case, please send it to the FDDI
EISA/PCI product manager, George Nielsen (DELNI::G_NIELSEN).
- Larry Stefani
Adapters Business Group
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| 1364.2 | NDIS 3.0 | SCHOOL::WASHABAUGH | Born to be Mild | Wed Jun 08 1994 13:34 | 7 |
I had heared that Banyan got snubbed by Novell and is going with NDIS 3.0 as their standard. This makes sense, since when I talked to them last, they wanted the NIC vendor to suppory an NDIS 3.0 driver. Hopefully Banyan will fix the "error in their ways" soon. doug | |||||