7 Dec
2006
7 Dec
'06
3:28 p.m.
On Thursday 07 December 2006 12:58, you wrote:
Out of interest, what do I need in the way of TCP/IP
software /
configuration and FTP client software so that I can connect to a remote FTP
server from MSDOS?
I don't think I've ever set up such a config from scratch. I can live with
10Mbps speeds if required (would DOS drivers even drive a card at anything
more anyway?)
NIC cards I seem to have available:
Netgear FA310TX (PCI)
HP 88809L (ISA)
3Com Etherlink III (PCI)
3Com Etherlink III (ISA)
Asix NV100AM (PCI)
'Network Everywhere' NC100 (PCI)
3Com 3C905 (PCI)
The ISA boards perhaps have the drawback that they're software
configurable, so I have no idea what settings they'll want to use (or which
interface), or how well they'll behave in the new-ish system I need to put
a card in. The PCI boards on the other hand are newer so maybe DOS drivers
don't even exist for them...
(Etherlink III's were always reliable I seem to recall, but I never did
like the idea of them being software configurable; it was much nicer to
have jumpers on a card and *know* what it was configured as!)
cheers
Jules
Here's what I use.....
Trumpet ABI (not winsock that's different) TCP/IP stack
It includes FTP client, telnet and more...
D-link ne-2000 clone ISA card and packet driver
Tsoft NFS
dos 7.0 (aka windows 95 kernel)
I use this combination because:
it produced the smallest memory foot print (577K free)
it will fit on (and boot from) a single floppy
it has a documented interface, so I can write code
(I had to write my own LPR).
The stacks I looked at were:
microsoft - serious memory hog
novell - won't fit on a floppy and you can't remove the boot disk
wattcp - this worked pretty well, but it wasn't a TSR so no ping response
without an application running.
I have the need to keep a DOS box running to support my prom/gal programmer
and a couple of DOS CAD programs. I don't ever intend to buy the same
program more than once....
I boot from a 1.4M floppy and NFS mount the "C:" drive.
BTW I've also used an INTEL EE/PRO 100 (PCI) with the same setup (different
packet driver) and It works just fine. DOS runs pretty good on an 800Mhz.
x86.
joe lang