Or wrote:
>/* (Sorry bernie. I sent this directly to you by mistake, which means
>that now you get this duplicate from the list. My mistake.) */
I get my revenge as I now send this answer to the list as well so you get
it duplicated (except one spelling error that's fixed) ;-)
A small addition is added as well at the end...
I don't know why I kept my own post off-list... (you others can stop
looking now it isn't there <g>)
>Was going to keep that 486 DOS based, but I dont think that its possible
>to make it a gateway with DOS.. which means: Linux. Which means: oops,
>I dont know Linux that good!.. which in turn means: I'm lost! :)
DOS will do it, all you need to do is to get napt (actually it's called
Internet Extender but the exe file is napt.exe)
(http://www-acc.scu.edu/~jsarich/ieweb/main.htm) and load the drivers for
the two cards (I assume you have them). The documentation is rather good
IMO (although I changed epppd version and used miniterm instead of
chat.exe) if you need any help I'll gladly help you out.
>I need to somehow make that 486 run on Linux, while all the 486 got is
>a 4G drive (which leaves 2G for Linux if I terminate drive D:), and
>4MB of RAM.
(snip)
That's way to little (in RAM that is) for Linux. If you install napt you
can use a floppy to boot it off and then copy the files that you need to
RamDrive and run it from there (that's how I do it). The program only uses
conventional memory so you need to get as much free as possible (I haven't
actually bothered myself much with this yet but if the ISDN card requires
much memory you should try and get it into the upper memory if possible.
Only drawback with Internet Extender is that it has a 30 second "nag-ware"
screen (actually it isn't nag-ware since it's completly under GPL - but I
can't recompile it and the author didn't want to bother with it). You'll
need to press a key on the keyboard (I use spacebar) to get past this
screen if you don't want to wait for those 30 seconds.
The setup program (setup.bat) isn't very good IMHO since it uses chat.exe
so I used another setup program - Arachne - and copied the *.cfg files
after a succesfull login (only pppdrc.cfg, ppptcp.cfg and arachne.cfg are
needed (I think they are all required anyway)). Of course this isn't
something that matters if you run with two NICs.
I was working on a better setup program but I wonder where I put the files
(there's a big drawback for having much HD space).
In any event changing napt.ini by hand and copying the required files from
arachne isn't very hard.
