Dr Ron Heywood wrote in a message to All:
 DRH> Thanks for reading this message. Bascially this is a
 DRH> question that relates to BPQ over which I run FBB
I had to check whether I was reading the LAN or PACKET echo!  I happen to 
moderate both, so this is your lucky day.
 DRH> Basically I am trying to get BPQ to run over a network
 DRH> without much success and hope someone can assist.
 DRH> On PC1 which I run the F6FBB.E BBS on I do run BPQ. BPQ is
 DRH> loade by use of BPQCODE.SYS as the operating system is OS/2.
 DRH> The network cards in use are PN-10 sries 16 bit Ethernet. My
 DRH> setting on this machine are I/0 240 and IRQ 11...I did
 DRH> previously used thw IN95 on both machine and the network did
 DRH> function!!
 DRH> On the other machine I have a different o/s namely Windows95
 DRH> using BPQCODE.EXE and the windows switch interface. The I/O
 DRH> is 33 and IRQ 11. 
 DRH> What I want to do is get the software to wrok so that the
 DRH> networking (NETROM) works between the two machines under
 DRH> BPQ.
I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to do.  You have two nodes which 
have netrom ports using BPQ, and you want to set up an Ethernet link between 
them so that netrom frames can be encapsulated and tunneled through Ethernet?
 DRH> I do not know how to confgiure the additional port for this
 DRH> or what other drivers I have to load. I assume I have yo use
 DRH> ODIDRV but it needs parameters and I am not sure wher eit
 DRH> goes. Presumably I need to used the ODI drivers from the
 DRH> manufacturers network installation disk. 
By default, OS/2 will run an NDIS stack, not an ODI stack.  ODI is supported 
on OS/2, but you only use it if you install the Novell support.  Even then, 
you usually would run the ODINSUP shim instead.
The OS/2 native networking stack does not present any interface, such as NDIS 
or ODI, up to a network application.  OS/2 expects that network applications 
will communicate through the documented socket interface.  Some people have 
had success running NOS variants under OS/2 and installing two physical 
Ethernet cards, one managed by the native OS/2 networking and the other 
managed by the DOS-based NOS network application.  In this case, the two 
stacks operate as if they were on two separate machines, actually 
communicating with each other over the Ethernet.  Of course, if you don't 
need the OS/2 native networking stack for anything else, you can run just the 
one Ethernet card and let it be managed by the DOS-based drivers.  
Unfortunately, I can't see any easy way to make this work for the native OS/2 
BPQ driver.
 
-- Mike, N1BEE
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