Support for the Packet Driver spec has come from the following organizations and people within those organizations. Order of listing is more or less chronological. John Romkey , who created the spec in the first place. James van Bokkelen , who is maintaining the spec. Karl Auerbach , who adapted MIT's PC/IP to use the packet driver spec and wrote a packet driver for the TRW-2000. Phil Karn , who added a packet driver interface to his code, and supplied C code for the 3c501 and SLIP8250 drivers. Bill Doster , who wrote a NI5010 driver in C for Phil Karn's net. Russell Nelson , who created the packet driver skeleton and adapted several existing drivers to it. Bob Clements , who wrote the WD8003E and 3c503 drivers. Brad Clements , who adapted NCSA Telnet to use the packet driver spec. (Bob and Brad are not related.) The Wollongong Group, in the person of Leo J. McLaughlin , which has committed to supporting the spec. 3Com, in the person of Eric_Siegel@dsd.3mail.3com.com, has been helpful in getting 3Com's documention to packet driver authors. Dan Lanciani , who wrote the 3c523 driver. Denis DeLaRoca , who added hardware handshake to the SLIP8250 driver. John Grover , who optimized the SLIP8250 driver to work at 38.4 Kbps. Rainer Toebbicke who wrote the BICC Isolan driver. Jan Engvald LDC , who improved the wd8003e driver, and added MicroChannel support. Krishnan Gopalan and Gregg Stefancik of Clemson University Engineering Computer Operations, who wrote the packet driver for the 3c505 card. Vance Morrison added starlan support to the wd8003e driver. Brian Fisher , who wrote an "Ethernet" packet driver for the IBM Token Ring Adapter card. Eric Henderson of Brigham Young University, who wrote a packet driver for Novell's NE1000 and NE2000. Joe Doupnik improved head.asm by adding some comments and brought it further into line with the PDS, added promiscuous mode to the wd8003e driver, and modified the PC/IP netwatch to use packet drivers. David Horne <71271.1141@CompuServe.COM>, who wrote a packet driver for Novell's NE2000. Michael Haberler , who wrote an IP over NetBIOS packet driver. Paul Kranenburg , who wrote an IP over IPX packet driver. David E. Johnson , who fixed the 3c505 driver. James A. Harvey , who fixed the AT test in tail.asm and the 3c503 lockup problem. Anto Prijosoesilo , who fixed a bug related to DMA in the ni6510 driver. John Mann , who submitted some code to delay the etopen and convert between Novell's pseudo IEEE 802.3 packets and Ethernet packets. Drew Daniel Perkins , who designed and implemented as_send_pkt (asynchronous send) for the wd8013ebt, and improved pktsend in the process Katie Stevens , who wrote a LocalTalk driver. Steven Wallace , who added a hack for MS-Windows. Reinhard Strebler , who hacked on termin, and slip8250. Martin Knoblauch , who fixed ni5010 promiscuous mode. Tobias Reber , who fixed the 3c523. Gregory T Small , who found a bug in the packet interrupt verification. Dave Price wrote a packet driver for the Mitel Express ISDN card. Doug Smith ported the ni6510 driver to the depca card. Don Provan fixed a bug in the -n switch code. John Baird wrote some ipxpkt documentation. Sylvan Butler fixed two bugs in ubnicpc. The following freely copyable software supports the packet driver spec. The Packet Driver Specification, version 1.09 vax.ftp.com:pub/packet-d.ascii vax.ftp.com:pub/packet-d.mss Clarkson's (Russ Nelson) collection of packet drivers. sun.soe.clarkson.edu:pub/packet-drivers/drivers.zip sun.soe.clarkson.edu:pub/packet-drivers/driverss.zip NCSA's Telnet. zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu (128.174.20.50). Clarkson's (Brad Clements) version of NCSA Telnet. The current version of CUTCP (Clarkson's version of NCSA Telnet) is available for FTP from omnigate.clarkson.edu:pub/cutcp/2.2-C/tc.cutcp.zoo Phil Karn's TCP/IP package (freely copyable only for radio amateurs and educational institutions. Others should contact him.) The latest version of NOS is always available for FTP from thumper.bellcore.com:pub/ka9q/nos/src.zip Dan Laniani's Harvard version of CMU's version of MIT's version of PC-IP. The source for PC-IP is available from husc6.harvard.edu:/pub/pcip/pcip.tar.Z Executables compiled for the packet drivers are available from the same sources as the packet drivers. Look for pcippkt.arc. BYU's packet driver IPX.COM. A copy is kept on sun.soe.clarkson.edu:/pub/novell/novell.exe Vance Morrison's PCROUTE. There is a beta version of PCroute with packet driver support available on accvuax.nwu.edu (129.105.49.1) in pub/pcroute/exp. In this directory you will find two files 'packpack.exe' and 'packslip.exe'. These files are compiled versions of pcroute the first configured to be used with two packet drivers, and the second configured for one packet driver and one slip line. In addition the pub/pcroute/exp directory is the standard PCroute documentation modfied to include packet driver details, as well as a file 'packet.txt' which is a sample installtion of the packpack.exe code. So if you have wanted to use PCroute, but didn't have WD8003E cards here is your chance to try it out. If you do try out the code, please send me a note saying so (so I can know if anyone really cares), and also send any comments/bugs of interest. The code will not be nearly as speedy as the native driver, but I am not sure how much (I estimate about 1/3 the speed). Any comments/measurments on the speed would also be appreciated. At present the source for the additional code is not available because it is easer for me to wait until I have had some feedback and then simply integrate it into the standard release. Jan Engvald's PDCLKSET, a program to set the time on a PC. For MSDOS machines I suggest you try PDCLKSET, available by anonymous FTP from Pollux.lu.se:/pub/network/pdclkset/pdclk088.zip . It requires a packet driver, is very small (7 kbyte) and fast (can be included in AUTOEXEC.BAT without noticeble delay). It knows a lot about daylight saving algorithms all over the world, but in the case of UK the implemented algorithm may not be true every coming year, lacking an officially defined DLS rule. Joe Doupnik's version of MIT's NETWATCH. netlab.usu.edu, 129.123.1.11, in directory [anonymous.netwatch]. It's a VMS machine so do cd [.netwatch] with the brackets and the dot. Stan's Own Server (NFS server). Available from same place as Clarkson collection of packet drivers. Look for pcip_sos.arc (source changes to pcip), and sos_pkt.exe (pcip_sos compiled for packet drivers). PC-NFS drivers. Available from same place as Clarkson collection of packet drivers. Look for compat.tar.Z, or compat.zip (identical contents, different archiver). Note that you need to purchase PC-NFS from Sun in order to use this package. FTP Software's packet-driver-over-NDIS simulator. FTP Software has created a program that uses an NDIS driver to emulate a packet driver. It is freely copyable, and located on VAX.FTP.COM, in the directory pub/packet.driver/NDIS. University of Minnesota's POPmail POP2 client. POPmail is a POP2 client that will let you read your mail stored on a machine running a POP2 server. Fetch boombox.micro.umn.edu:/pub/POPmail/msdos/version.2.0/00README to decide which files to get. Bob Crosson's SNMP monitor. In the anonymous FTP directory on host enh.nist.gov (129.6.16.1) are two files in compressed tar format. This is a VAX running VMS so the file names may look a little strange. The file snmplib.tar_z contains the libraries, executables, and minimal documentation. The file snmpsrc.tar_z contains all sources (both the main program and the libraries) and all available documentation. Mississippi State University's LPD, FTP, and BOOTP servers A beta test version of a freeware LPD for MSDOS can be found in the ftp-archive at tacky.cs.olemiss.edu in directory pub/lpd. It uses some version of Clarkson or NCSA libraries and workes quite well in some first tests here. Besides the LPD part there is also a FTP and a BOOTP server included, which we also find very useful. The following commercial software supports the packet driver spec. FTP Software's PC/TCP. Sun Microsystem's PC-NFS (unofficially). The Wollongong Group's WIN/TCP (and friends). Gateway Communications Inc's packet driver. D-Link Systems Inc.'s D-Link Ethernet card packet driver. Beame and Whiteside's BWNFS and BWKTEL (NFS and TELNET packages) MD-DOS/IP (available from Wiscware, wiscware@wiscmacc.bitnet) Cabletron supplies a packet driver with their Ethernet cards. Intel supplies a packet driver with their Ethernet cards. The following companies have donated Ethernet cards to Clarkson University. Racal Interlan donated four NI6510s. AT&T's Bell Labs donated two Starlan 10BaseT cards, an AUI, and a coax adapter. 3Com donated a 3c501, two 3c503's, two 3c505's, a 3c523, and two EtherLink 16 cards. HP donated an Ethertwist (10BaseT) Hub, two 8-bit ISA Ethertwist cards, two 16-bit ISA Ethertwist cards, two MCA Ethertwist cards and two ISA Thinwire cards. D-Link donated a D-Link pocket lan adapter, a 8-bit card, and a 16-bit card. Digital Equipment donated a DEPCA card. Cabletron donated a 10BaseT card. MultiTech Systems donated two EN-series cards. Western Digital donated a WD8003E, and a wd8013EP. Clarkson is an independent, coeducational university located in northern New York, midway between the Adirondack Mountains and the St. Lawrence River. The University has 3,600 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in programs in its Schools of Engineering, Management, and Science as well as in its Industrial Distribution Program and its Faculty of Liberal Studies.