Re: AOL/Windows question

[Allan Carhart <carhart.allan@com>]

On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Dan Haskovec wrote:

> This sounds right - I think AOL uses a proprietary TCP/IP stack.  Unless
> your parents are very attached to their AOL account, I'd switch them to an
> ISP that uses the standard Windows stack. Pretty much all of them do these
> days. 

Sadly, my mother is pretty attached to her AOL account. And for my dad,
it's a "if it ain't broke" thing. (no comments about AOL being broken.) :-)

But I think you're onto something, as far as dialup networking. There 
isn't anything like that installed -- No dialup interface in the network
control panel, no 'dialup networking' control panel at all. I suppose
I'll need to install that, or something? I think that's the right direction
anyway.

I sent the original message to you guys (cs-ucsd) and a couple of 
internal Netscape mailing lists as well. My coworkers seem to all think that
Win95 can't handle multiple interfaces with TCP/IP bound.  And that I
need to remove TCP/IP from my network card, since I don't need it for local
file sharing.

I disagree with them -- I'm sure Win95 can handle more than one TCP/IP
instance (why else do they have 'netstat' and 'route') -- Does anyone have
experience with this?

--Allan