C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote: > > Steven, I am planning to use it with an ethernetcard.
Do you know what kind of card it is? To use it for DOS you will need the correct packetdrive. For example, if your card is NE2000 compatible, you will need the ne2000 packetdriver (this is similar to the ne module in Linux). If the IRQ is 10 and the IO address is 0x320, then you install the packetdriver like this: -------------------- ne2000 0x60 10 0x320 -------------------- This is similar to "insmod ne 0x320" in Linux. Once the packetdriver is installed, it is ready to communicate via TCP/IP; however, before it can do this it requires an address and a route to the network. In Linux, the "ifconfig" and "route" commands are used to do this. However, DOS does not have any commands like these, so the address/route data is normally set by the application. For example, when you configure SOSS, you define address/route and SOSS sets them up when it runs. Or, when you use NCSA telnet (which requires a completely different configuration of address/route), it sets up the connection. This works fine as long as the application is running, but as soon as it stops, the network connection disappears. The packetdriver is still functioning, but without an address/route, it is deaf and dumb. > But you have to explain to me TCP/IP and NCSA. TCP/IP is the network protocol. It's the protocol used for the Internet and in Linux. Windows networking has its own protocol (NetBUI or something like that), but it uses TCP/IP too. Novelle networking has it's own protocol. NCSA is simply the name of a particular version of telnet (for DOS). Cheers, Steven To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
