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I have Microsofts DOS client software installed. Isn that a packet driver?

April 26, 2017client dos driver installed Microsoft packet Software

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I have Microsofts DOS client software installed. Isn that a packet driver?

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No, those are NDIS2 or NDIS3 drivers. The NDIS drivers you load via NET START may be adapted to work with Packet Driver clients using the shareware shims DIS_PKT.COM (for NDIS2) or NDIS3PKT (for NDIS3), but I haven’t tried DIS_PKT.COM, and NDIS3PKT doesn’t seem to work well with MercNet. It is probably better to install true packet drivers.