Hi, I've been playing with another approach to getting networking of sorts onto ELKS. I just remembered that in the early days of Linux, there was a package called term, which provided networking across a serial link using a shell login without IP or root privilege. The idea is that after logging onto the remote host, one runs a proxy program to talk to the serial link. On the local side one runs programs that have been linked to a special library, one that intercepts all the usual networking system calls and turns them into requests to the remote proxy. Term even could sidestep characters that would be swallowed by the serial link. In this way all network requests appear to come from the remote host. In this way people were able to run termified versions of the usual networking applications. After SLIP and PPP access became widespread, term slipped into obscurity. I obtained term-2.3.5 and hacked it to compile under bcc. I have got it to make the termnet.a library, which is the replacement library for networking functions. Unfortunately the test program doesn't compile due to a compiler bug. I also found that ELKS misses a set of good header files, even if the libraries don't exist yet. Anyway, as I don't have a good ELKS setup, if someone wants to play with the source, I've put it at: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/9247/term-2.3.5-elks.tar.gz The original is at metalabs.unc.edu.au (ex sunsite) under linux/system/network/serial Ken
