15 Jan
2005
15 Jan
'05
9:56 p.m.
On Jan 16 2005, 9:14, Stan Barr wrote:
Hi,
Cameron Kaiser said:
> > Remember the joys of TCP/IP on MS-DOS in the late 1980s?
>
> Remember it? I live it. The 486 DOS laptop besides me took several
days to
> piece everything together. It runs a 3Com packet
driver on top of
some
> crufted together Card/Socket Services TSRs, and
then NCSA Telnet
and FTP
> have their own TCP stacks that will talk to it.
So does Arachne, it
seems.
I've just been doing much the same thing so I can ftp stuff over to
my
headless 486 that thinks it's a PDP-11 - old
NE2000 card, Crwnyr(sp?)
driver and NCSA telnet/ftp.
I built a similar setup a few months ago, but I used the Microsoft
TCP/IP stuff on top of DOS 6.22. It was easy to set up, and now I have
telnet, FTP, ICMP (some stacks don't support that), and the whole thing
uses DHCP and mounts drives from my Samba server.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York