IBANPKT (c) Copyright Daniel D. Lanciani 1994
All rights reserved.

IBANPKT is licensed free of charge for personal and internal
business use only.  IBANPKT may not be distributed for profit,
nor may it be included in products or otherwise distributed by
commercial entities to their clients or customers without the
prior written permission of the author.

TO THE EXTENT ALLOWED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IBANPKT IS PROVIDED
"AS IS", WITH NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY, INCLUDING, BUT
NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW WILL THE AUTHOR BE
LIABLE FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL
OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO
USE IBANPKT EVEN IF THE AUTHOR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY
OF SUCH DAMAGES.

These copyright, license, and disclaimer notices must be included
with all copies of IBANPKT.

ibanpkt.com provides a class 1 (Ethernet) packet driver interface
over Banyan's VINES IP-routed-in-VINES/IP protocol.  This protocol
is an option on VINES servers and allows IP access from anywhere in
a VINES network by encapsulating native IP in VINES own transport.

To use ibanpkt you MUST know the name of a VINES server on your
network which provides the encapsulation service and the IP
network number used by that server.  Note that this IP network
number will *NOT* be the same as the IP network number of the
physical cable to which your PC is connected.  (If your PC is on
Ethernet and you want to run native IP, look at banpkt.com instead
of ibanpkt.com.)  Ibanpkt is loaded as:

ibanpkt service_name packet_int

where service_name is the name of a StreetTalk service on the server.
(It doesn't really matter what the service is--it is just used to get
the address of the server.)  A good service to use seems to be StreetTalk
itself, so, if you server is called foo, you might try:

ibanpkt ST@foo@Servers

The service_name argument defaults to ST@*@Servers which isn't too useful
since wildcards don't appear to work in this context.  The packet_int
defaults to 0x69.

Although ibanpkt claims to be a class 1 packet driver it is in fact
restricted to a data mtu of 1450 bytes (total emulated frame = 1450 + 14).
If your applications do not respect the mtu in the packet driver parameter
field you *MUST* explicitly reduce your application's mtu from 1500 to 1450.


Please send bug reports to ddl@danlan.com or

Dan Lanciani
185 Atlantic Road
Gloucester, MA 01930
(978) 283-4974