Re: Using the net on an XT: Drivers & TCP/IP

Cheers <moussa_el@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The second TSR to bind the driver to the protocol is used in the
LanManager network stack and is called netbind. It binds the network
driver (usually called NE1000.DOS) to the TCP driver, whose name
was dependent on the vendor.
I hope am using the right terminology here, I was referring to the tcp/Ip
pocket driver, as i understood he was using a generic tcp/ip stack.

The word "packet driver" is used for a low-level Ethernet driver
transporting ethernet packets. It has nothing to do with TCP/IP.
The applications he mentioned (like wattcp, NCSA Telnet) bring
their own micro-tcp stack within their executable and rely on the
packet driver to transport ethernet frames.

A short configuration instruction for NCSA telnet can be found at
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/configuring-dos.html

anyway, is not even useful to start running such net
tools on a XT box with 640k RAM
Why not? A XT box is good enough to run this minimalistic TCP
environment and a network connection is also available nearly
everywhere you can get a serial connection to, but serial
ports are limited. Network cards and switches are cheaper and
easier to obtain than port servers.

I have heard nothing but good stuff about DrDOS tcp/ip
and net tools/utilities, but they ain't Free and they
seems to be directed to "embedded systems", but again
they recommend a 286 + .
DRDOS (now at Caldera, called OpenDOS for some time) images
are available free-of-charge, look at drdos.org or drdos.net.
They are not free for profit-organisations. But they never
included TCP/IP networking. DRDOS/NovellDOS contained a
fully functional network stack based on ODI, a layer like
Microsoft's NDIS, and used IPX as transport protocol.
Peer-to-peer networking with DRDOS really worked nice, though.

Michael Karcher
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