Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp

2011-07-08 Thread Jim Michaels
. From: Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, July 6, 2011 4:27 AM Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp Op 6-7-2011 6:22, Steve Nickolas schreef: On Tue, 5 Jul 2011, Jim Michaels wrote: how on earth shall I expect to build

Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp

2011-07-08 Thread Jim Michaels
they are available here. http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/index.html From: Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, July 6, 2011 4:02 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp Op 3-7-2011 4:26, Michael B. Brutman

Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp

2011-07-08 Thread Jim Michaels
cURL has no problem with ftp:// it handles LOTS of protocols From: Michael B. Brutman mbbrut...@brutman.com To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, July 6, 2011 4:32 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp On 7/6/2011 6:02 PM, Bernd

Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp

2011-07-08 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On 7/8/11, Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com wrote: they are available here. http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/index.html I've never used cURL, but apparently latest is 7.21.7. I blindly wonder if it'll still compile with DJGPP + WATT-32 (too preoccupied to personally try right now, doh).

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] 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] 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] watcom tcp

2011-07-06 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 6-7-2011 6:22, Steve Nickolas schreef: On Tue, 5 Jul 2011, Jim Michaels wrote: how on earth shall I expect to build a bootable ISO image with mkisofs? Put a boot floppy image in the folder and use mkisofs -b filename.144 -o filename.iso path/ And isolinux as bootloader, instead of

Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp

2011-07-06 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 3-7-2011 4:26, Michael B. Brutman schreef: The second parameter is optional and allows you to do the rename. This is similar to Unix command line clients. Tested tonight, works like a charm :) Confusingly, I've now got trouble getting WGET working, as I had the intention of downloading

Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp

2011-07-06 Thread Michael B. Brutman
On 7/6/2011 6:02 PM, Bernd Blaauw wrote: ftp://ftp.xs4all.nl/pub/test/10mb.bin : 1) 2.0 to 2.5MByte/second ( around 20Mbit/s, 25Mbit ISP subscription) 2) N/A , WGET not working 3) 500Kbyte/second ( around 4Mbit/s) mTCP FTP compares poorly to the native stack and FireFox there, but FTP is

Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp

2011-07-06 Thread Bernd Blaauw
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 * You are doing filesystem writes 8KB at a

Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp

2011-07-05 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On 7/2/11, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote: Op 3-7-2011 2:59, Rugxulo schreef: I guess you mean Mike plans to write something like this one day. We do already have a port of WGET (via DJGPP), but I've not heavily tested it. (Or did you mean one with IPv6 support?? Dunno ...)

Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp

2011-07-05 Thread François Revol
Le mardi 05 juillet 2011 à 03:23 -0500, Rugxulo a écrit : That's not helping a hey let's boot from floppy, configure internet access and install from downloaded/mounted ISO file Floppies just don't hold enough. Add to that the fact that they fail semi-frequently, and you have a

Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp

2011-07-05 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On 7/5/11, François Revol re...@free.fr wrote: Le mardi 05 juillet 2011 à 03:23 -0500, Rugxulo a écrit : That's not helping a hey let's boot from floppy, configure internet access and install from downloaded/mounted ISO file Floppies just don't hold enough. Add to that the fact that

Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp

2011-07-05 Thread François Revol
Le mardi 05 juillet 2011 à 15:17 -0500, Rugxulo a écrit : http://www.torlus.com/floppy/ Good to know (SD card reader / USB floppy emulator hardware), but there's still probably some drawbacks. I've got a USB floppy drive, and it works with FreeDOS, but other non-BIOS-using OSes need

Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp

2011-07-05 Thread Jim Michaels
DOS version of cURL can be obtained from http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/index.html From: Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Saturday, July 2, 2011 5:42 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp Op 3-7-2011 1:54

Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp

2011-07-05 Thread Jim Michaels
how on earth shall I expect to build a bootable ISO image with mkisofs?   From: Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, July 5, 2011 1:23 AM Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp Hi, On 7/2/11, Bernd Blaauw bbla

Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp

2011-07-05 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Tue, 5 Jul 2011, Jim Michaels wrote: how on earth shall I expect to build a bootable ISO image with mkisofs? Put a boot floppy image in the folder and use mkisofs -b filename.144 -o filename.iso path/ -- All of

Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp

2011-07-02 Thread Michael B. Brutman
Thanks for the plugs for mTCP - I am buried in work and away from email for a good part of the day. There are a lot more WATTCP apps out there because WATTCP has been around a lot longer, and there is a benefit to that long term stability. I think that I have covered the more popular

Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp

2011-07-02 Thread François Revol
Le samedi 02 juillet 2011 à 09:32 -0500, Michael B. Brutman a écrit : Thanks for the plugs for mTCP - I am buried in work and away from email for a good part of the day. There are a lot more WATTCP apps out there because WATTCP has been around a lot longer, and there is a benefit to that

Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp

2011-07-02 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 3-7-2011 1:54, François Revol schreef: Any of those two supports IPv6 ? So FreeDOS can survive the IPcalypse :D Don't think so. Stuff I can think of which is missing: 1) WGET/CURL 2) WOL-client to wake up machines in the network by sending magic packet 3) IP v6 4) Jumboframes (9000 bytes I

Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp

2011-07-02 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote: Op 3-7-2011 1:54, François Revol schreef: Any of those two supports IPv6 ? So FreeDOS can survive the IPcalypse :D Don't think so. Stuff I can think of which is missing: 1) WGET/CURL I guess you mean Mike plans to

Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp

2011-07-02 Thread Michael B. Brutman
On 7/2/2011 7:42 PM, Bernd Blaauw wrote: Op 3-7-2011 1:54, François Revol schreef: Any of those two supports IPv6 ? So FreeDOS can survive the IPcalypse :D Don't think so. Stuff I can think of which is missing: 1) WGET/CURL 2) WOL-client to wake up machines in the network by sending magic

Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp

2011-07-02 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 3-7-2011 3:03, Michael B. Brutman schreef: [1] A fully featured wget will be difficult to get into the memory space. I have plans for a simple version that does not recurse, does not support Unicode, etc. Ah good news. Basicly FTP.EXE already suffices, except for the following: * FTP-only,

Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp

2011-07-01 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, quick reply, (others know way more than I do here), On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Edwin Rhodes edwin_rho...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello I am trying to find watcom tcpip drivers and utils to connect a 286 running dos 5 to the internet I have an 3c509 card packet driver and neeed watcom tcp

Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp

2011-07-01 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 1-7-2011 23:53, Rugxulo schreef: Hi, quick reply, (others know way more than I do here), http://www.crynwr.com/ should do the trick for packet drivers. Loading method: * find correct packet driver for your network interface card * load it (usually type its name, sometimes specific options