> On Mar 16, 2025, at 8:29 PM, Michael Brutman via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > So this is kind of funny ... > > The FDNET is basically a glorified BAT file. But it uses other things, so > that creates complications:
Of course it is a BATCH file and not a very complex one. I don’t think it is even as complex as the CDROM.BAT that initializes a CD/DVD drive. But it does one very important thing. It makes it very very easy for end-users to have networking on platforms supported by FDNET. A few years back, there was some confusion about licensing for FDNET. So, we pulled FDNET from the release and other locations pending further examination. That action resulted in a huge blow-back from users. Most of those users had no idea how to get networking functional on their own. This led us to focus on resolving any issues and the eventual return of FDNET. > For 1.4 the DHCP client should be updated to the same version of mTCP that is > being shipped. We have been issuing Release Candidates for several months indicating the eminent release of FreeDOS 1.4. Now, the 1.4 release build is only two weeks away. Major changes at this point cannot be implemented. However as you point out, we do provide a newer version in the FreeDOS mTCP package. Since we should avoid providing two different versions of DCHP in the two packages, I will update the version in FDNET. > In the future we need a way to not ship all of mTCP source code when you are > using just one program. Just including DHCP and a pointer to the mTCP source > package would be reasonable. Since the two packages will contain the same version of DHCP. I will replace the mTCP sources with a text file in the FDNET package. The README.TXT will say: FDNET uses DHCP.EXE created by Michael Brutman. The sources for DHCP.EXE are available in the FreeDOS mTCP package. Sources for DHCP.EXE may also be found at the developers website. http://brutmanlabs.org/mTCP/ > Mike I’m no DOS networking expert. I can just imagine how much FDNET could be improved if an expert like you adopted the project. :-) Jerome
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