Telnet programs to connect to Xenix

[Michael Squires]

In article <113 at embassy.nsi.com> lance at embassy.nsi.com (Lance N. Antrim) writes:
>connect to SCO's TCP/IP package.  I have tried NCSA's Telnet packages on
>both the PC and the Mac, and the MacIP package.  Although FTP and Finger

I used NCSA Telnet 2.2 on a 386 PC using the WD8003E card and NCSA Telnet 2.3
on a Mac IIx with the Apple Ethernet card talking to a Tandy 4000LX running
XENIX 2.3.2 and SCO TCP/IP with no problems.  The Tandy 4000LX is now
running in a network with 3C503 and 3C523 boards and although I have no
problems connecting to the 4000LX from a Sun 386i/250 on the same wire
I am told that users on PC's and PS/2's have problems.

At our site (IU CS Department) we dropped the 3C501/503 cards with NCSA
Telnet because of frequent lock-ups under NCSA Telnet; these went away
when we switched to WD8003E cards (which are a lot cheaper anyway, cost
$134 in NY).

I had similar problems with 3C501 and 503 cards under SCO UNIX 3.2.1
and SCO TCP/IP (ODT 1.0).  The 3C501 card worked, but netstat returned
many errors; the 503 showed no errors but I could not connect from a
PC using NCSA Telnet about six feet away.  Switching to the WD8003EPR
solved the problem.  I've had problems using the WD8013 (16-bit) but
believe these to be installation problems; the 8013 is now explicitly
supported by SCO.

For various reasons, then, I've standardized on the WD cards (especially
as there's a WD BBS that offers latest versions of drivers/test software,
etc.).
-- 

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