Third Party TCP for Xenix 286

[NeXT]

It was talked about in the #vc IRC channel that while I was being stupid and installing Xenix 286 I should also add a network card.
Xenix 286 does not ship with a TCP stack. That would be available for the 386 releases and later the SCO builds. From what I was told if you wanted TCP on anything older you needed a TCP package that was sold by a third party and even then you had a very, very limited selection of supported network cards due to how heavy the load of a network card was on the host system and very basic network functionality.
Well lets just say I have a 3Com 3C505 Etherlink Plus. Early card, local co-processor and "that should work", but I've been unable any traces of these third party packages. Are they simply lost to time?

 

[Al Kossow]

3rd Party TCP/IP for SCO XENIX 286.

XENIX-NET compatible TCP/IP for 286 XENIX machines.

FTP Software - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

i've never seen a copy

 

[nigwil]

I also would like to get something network related running on a 286 Unix; with Xenix I am hoping to find the Excelan 205 drivers, pieces of which appear to be around for the 386 era.

 

[twmiller]

++; I'd also love to get a network running on Xenix 286. Right now copying stuff from the DOS partition (which has mTCP setup for file transfers) and kermit are the only two ways I have beyond the floppy to get stuff onto and off of the system. I spent a bit of time last year getting it set up, and then looked all over the place for TCPIP for it and found nothing other than relatively vague mentions about companies that provided such a thing, with no trace of actual software.