Or wrote:
>All I want is indeed share an internet connection. Unfortunatly,
>the modem I am talking about is an ISDN card, and as we've seen before
>the only program that support the ISDN on DOS that I know of is
>UKA_PPP, which is using another program to access the ISDN, and that
>the CAPI that comes with it should be registered.
UKA_PPP is a packet driver right? (like epppd.exe or the one that came with
your NIC)
If this is true (it must be otherwise you couldn't have used it in DOS
earlier) then the steps are simple (try and make it easier with Linux <BG>):
1. Get Internet Extender (http://www-acc.scu.edu/~jsarich/ieweb - you might
have to read the HTML code to get the link to the actual page where the
file can be downloaded).
Now you have two options:
a - RTFM
b - guess, I did that one :)
c - follow my guidelines some more (somewhat faster than RTFM perhaps)
2. Unpack the downloaded file (into a new directory of course)
3. Change napt.ini like this:
local_ip - the IP you want to have for this machine on the LAN, 10.1.1.1
for instance, this is later filled in as the gateway on all other machines
in the LAN (and make sure they all have diffrent IP addresses set)
local_mask - the netmask, use 255.255.255.0 for a class C subnet (if I'm
wrong about the class here please ignore that)
local_gateway - make sure it's commented away (add ";")
local_pdi - for the packet driver loaded for the LAN, 0x70 for instance
(make sure that your NICs packetdriver uses this one)
remote_ip - Set this if you have a static IP (you probably don't have one),
otherwise comment away.
remote_mask - the netmask out on the internet, since you aren't connected
through a network comment away
remote_gateway - the gateway out on the internet, since you aren't
connected through a network comment away
remote_pdi - for the packet driver loaded for the internet (UKA_PPP in your
case, EPPPD for modems), 0x60 for instance (make sure that UKA_PPP uses
this one)
tcp_server - here you can specify the TCP/IP capable servers on the LAN
(for instance 10.1.1.2:80 if the computer with the IP 10.1.1.2 is running a
http server)
udp_server - ditto but for UDP
Both of the two last can have several lines, but you can't use the same
port. Changing to port 81 for instance and you can have a second http
server on another computer.
4. Launch the packetdriver for the NIC, it should be on the floppy that
came with the card - otherwise download it from crynwr.com (unless it
happens to come with Arachne then use that one). Make sure the correct
vector is set (0x70).
5. Launch UKA_PPP and make sure it gets the correct vector (0x60)
6. Run napt.exe
7. Go to another machine, set the settings correctly (IP, gateway, DNS1,
DNS2 and netmask) - make sure that the card is installed (load the packet
driver for that NIC in DOS).
8. Write and send me a "thank you" note ;-)
Of course this can be automated - I use a bootable floppy in a 486 without
HD myself.
What you should do is to get as much conventional memory as possible free -
napt.exe can NOT use XMS... The ammount of connections made at the same
time depends on the free memory but I haven't run out of it yet.
BTW: Can you register this program (or get it a cracked) ? Otherwise the
above seems to be a little useless (but doable). If the program just exits
after 30 minutes you could always but it all in a self calling or iterating
BATch file (but don't perform any big downloads then).
>I could put on it Personal Netware using DR-DOS, unfortunatly it would
>only work when the Pentium 350 is on DR-DOS/W3.11 as well, and wouldnt
>work at all when i'm in Windows95.
For such things (file/print services) yes, but for sharing an Internet
connection it will work with any OS as long as you can find the drivers for
the network card and get them to undrstand that you have a card (all evil
points directed to Linux were intended). However I think you'll need an
added card for IPX networking (the type Novell uses) since the NIC don't
understand what it is that you are sending it otherwise.
I've tried to find something like PNW that runs on TCP/IP but haven't been
succesfull. Steven pointed me to a program that, and I quote from memory,
"I would need all the luck in hell getting to run without reading the docs"
- but it's suprisingly cool here ;-)
The program wasn't of much use to me since I didn't need an NFS server, but
10 minutes of work wasn't that much anyway. (And people wonder why I use
DOS instead of Linux...)
//Bernie
http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ...
