Right. I thought about it later and wondered what the other DOS stacks did. What does MS-NET or Trumpet do? Probably the same thing as mTCP and WATTCP. I remember using ping in DOS to ensure connectivity to Gateways and DNS, but I wasn't running any servers so there was little reason to ping the DOS machine.
On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 11:23 AM Michael Brutman <mbbrut...@brutman.com> wrote: > > Read the documentation for whatever networking software you are using. > > mTCP in particular is not a "resident" program, so your FreeDOS machine will > not respond to ping requests unless an mTCP program is actively running. > WATTCP programs have the same behavior. > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
