DOS & UNIX co-existence on AT&T 6386s: guidelines sought

[David W. Dykstra]

>From article <2933 at infmx.UUCP>, by aland at infmx.UUCP (Dr. Scump):
*>>          3Com 3C503 Ethernet card (also for use with PC-NFS under DOS)
*>
*>AT&T doesn't have and doesn't sell Unix drivers for the 3C503.  AT&T
*>has two separate and distinct TCP/IP platforms for 386 Unix; we only
*>support the AT&T TCP/IP Interface for Unix (ie, Micom/Racal-Interlan
*>product) or the Wollongong Integrated Networking (WIN) TCP/IP 386
*>over an AT&T StarLAN 10 NAU, EN100, or Fiber NAU card.
* 
* That's a shame.  This means that there is no single card which supports
* both AT&T TCP/IP and PC-NFS.  I ordered the 3C503 because they were
* on everybody else's compatibility lists (SCO, Interactive, ESIX, etc.),
* and originally we weren't going for AT&T machines because of ship 
* delays on the 33 MHz models.  But, they came around just in time (just
* got 'em yesterday, in fact).  
* 
* Does anybody know if there is a way to use these cards with AT&T Sys
* V/386 (maybe using "foreign" [gasp!] drivers)?  Otherwise, we'll
* probably just live without UNIX-UNIX ethernet on these boxes for
* the forseeable future (sigh).

You can buy TCP/IP which supports the 3C503 directly from Wollongong.

- Dave Dykstra
  dykstra at cs.uiuc.edu
  dwd at ihc.att.com