On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Willi Wasser <wiw...@web.de> wrote: > Emmmm . . . first i don't quite understand why you need an NDIS(2) driver > _and_ a packet driver? > A packet driver suitable for your network card allone should already do the > job.
Neither do I, but I must admit it's 15-20 year ago I did DOS networking and frankly I remember very little. I decided to follow the guide on the mentioned freedos page and thus ended up with both NDIS and a packet driver. I assume I can lose the protman.* and the protocol.ini as well as netbind then? > There are quite a number of TCP/IP stacks for DOS out there, many of them are > commecial products. > > Rather popular and free, is WATTCP written by Erick Engelke, although it > isn't a "stack" in the proper sense. Rather it's a library of TCP/IP routines > that is linked directly into the application programs. For the user of such > programs this doesn't make much difference. > > Basic programs, like PING, TRACEROUTE, an FTP-client etc. come with it. It > isn't that difficult to set-up. All you need is a packet driver and a > configuration file and there you go. > > An alternative might be the set of programs Mike Brutman wrote for his mTCP > projects, which is also frtee. Yes, I think I'll try this one out first. It new and sexy, but agreed WATTCP is tested and tried. We'll see. > Last, but not least, you might have a look on some of the networking programs > i wrote which you will find here: > http://www.bttr-software.de/products/jhoffmann/ I'll have a look for sure. Thank you. Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
