[Freedos-devel] Freedos 1.1. distro

2011-07-07 Thread marinellucc...@tiscali.it
Hi at all, can you create a live cd ! like linux for 1.1 distro with choiche for : 1) booting and working form cd (live mode) 2) booting from cd and wizard installer (like m$ dos or dr dos) This for semplify installation/test. In ODIN can you create a wizard for installing like commercial

Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp

2011-07-07 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Bernd, I'm happy with whatever I can get. My real hardware has an Nvidia chipset network driver for which no packet drivers exist, so sticking to virtual machines. I wonder if any PCI (or even PCI-express or onboard) network cards still support packet drivers. You probably can still

Re: [Freedos-devel] mTCP FTP performance (Was: watcom tcp

2011-07-07 Thread Michael B. Brutman
On 7/6/2011 7:10 PM, Bernd Blaauw wrote: Op 7-7-2011 1:32, Michael B. Brutman schreef: mTCP FTP compares poorly to the native stack and FireFox there, but FTP is working in a very limited environment: * The TCP/IP socket receive buffer is tiny compared to the native network stack

Re: [Freedos-devel] mTCP DHCP errorlevels (watcom tcp

2011-07-07 Thread Michael B. Brutman
On 7/6/2011 7:10 PM, Bernd Blaauw wrote: For DHCP I can imagine various errorlevels for different reasons: * missing MTCPCFG variable * MTCPCFG variable points to non-existing file * missing PACKETINT keyword in file * unable to write to MTCPCFG file (yay hidden/readonly) * packetdriver not

Re: [Freedos-devel] mTCP FTP URIs (was: watcom tcp

2011-07-07 Thread Michael B. Brutman
On 7/6/2011 7:10 PM, Bernd Blaauw wrote: That funny URI syntax was grafted on. What exact URI are you using? Are you adding ftp://; or just // ? FreeCOM (maybe also MSDOS command.com or 4DOS) seem to split arguments at the / level. See the FOR LOOP in my batchfile, with batchfile called as:

Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp

2011-07-07 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Thu, 7 Jul 2011, Bernd Blaauw wrote: I'm happy with whatever I can get. My real hardware has an Nvidia chipset network driver for which no packet drivers exist, so sticking to virtual machines. I wonder if any PCI (or even PCI-express or onboard) network cards still support packet drivers.

Re: [Freedos-devel] mTCP DHCP errorlevels (watcom tcp

2011-07-07 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 7-7-2011 14:08, Michael B. Brutman schreef: I have resisted getting too detailed with the errorlevels because I would need to make them consistent across all of the applications. At some point I'm not going to control all of the applications, so I won't be able to enforce it. The user

Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp

2011-07-07 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 7-7-2011 15:37, Steve Nickolas schreef: On Thu, 7 Jul 2011, Bernd Blaauw wrote: I think the RTL-8139 chipset does and it's still quite common. And there I was, wanting high-performant low-CPU network cards (with also packet drivers): * Intel Gigabit PCI-card (10/100Mbit fallback) * Intel

Re: [Freedos-devel] mTCP FTP performance (Was: watcom tcp

2011-07-07 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 7-7-2011 13:58, Michael B. Brutman schreef: Most of my testing is on lower-end machines, like a 386-40 and the various 8088 machines that I have. The performance of memcpy is far better on the newer processors due to pipeline efficiency and levels of caching. (Even the 386-40 has a 128K

Re: [Freedos-devel] mTCP FTP performance (Was: watcom tcp

2011-07-07 Thread Michael B. Brutman
Just for grins I did a little speed testing comparing mTCP running in a VM to native FTP under Windows XP. Here are the results: File size: 32MB Source: Linux 2.6.x running on a Pentium 233, local 100Mb/sec connection Windows XP command line FTP client: ~8950KB/sec LFTP running under Cygwin:

Re: [Freedos-devel] mTCP FTP performance (Was: watcom tcp

2011-07-07 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 7-7-2011 20:07, Michael B. Brutman schreef: Windows XP command line FTP client: ~8950KB/sec LFTP running under Cygwin: ~8850KB/sec mTCP, VMWare 3.13, PCNet emulation, standard buffer sizes: ~3950KB/sec mTCP, VMWare 3.13, PCNet emulation, max buffer sizes: ~6826KB/sec Odd that my download

Re: [Freedos-devel] mTCP FTP performance (Was: watcom tcp

2011-07-07 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Bernd, My own testing sometimes involves a solid state disk, other times a ramdrive. Bye latencies :) SSD have a quite noticeable per-write latency. The reason why you do not notice it with Windows or Linux is that those may use NCQ (queueing of concurrent disk I/O activities) and will