Hi everybody,
I know this message is prime flame-bait since I'm a total newbie (I must
confess I haven't ever installed or used Linux - just a little Solaris Unix
in my University years - but I've used - a lot - the 68xx-68K based OS
called OS9 which has a distinct Unix flavour), and I'm interested in
tomsrtbt not in itself (for now, anyway) but as a small part of a mad
project.
I'm familiar with networking concepts (having been forced into becoming a NT
NetAdmin).
I'm trying to write a TCP/IP stack for an obsolete 8-bit 6809-based computer
called the Dragon 64 (similar to the Tandy CoCo 2). Of course, the only i/o
I could use on that machine would be the serial port. I would like to use
SLIP since implementing PPP from scratch with very little memory with a 0.9
Mhz processor does not seem to be an agreeable prospect.
I have a small 2-PC network at home: a Win 95 always-online (with ADSL)
P-166 box and a 486Dx2-66 with 8Mb Ram and two hd (one 130 Meg, the other
400 meg). The second PC has internet access using the first one as a
"router" (using NAT - Network Address Translation - I guess that's
IP-Masquerading for you Unix folks).
In short, I would like to use my 486 as a SLIP server in order to connect my
Dragon 64 to the home network, then to the Internet (and using
port-forwarding, to run an http server on my Dragon 64 ;-) ). I know that
kind of thing has already been done with an Atari 800, but with a fixed page
served by the Atari to a terminal server, and not TCP/IP on the Atari. I'll
try to be a little crazier than that.
I can't find a SLIP server for Windows... and I found a link to tomsrtbt on
the very enlightening IPIC page
(http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPicTech.html ) - the guy wrote a TCP/IP
stack on a tiny PIC chip and ran a web server on this tiny unsophisticated
chip... He used "a Dell PC running tomsrtbt Linux 2.0.36 as an IP router"
which served SLIP.
Can someone explain briefly how to do that (if you can't be bothered to give
me details, just a general strategy would be useful - I'm very ignorant in
Linux matters, but I'm willing to learn)? I could free up one of my HDs on
my 486 to install some Linux distribution... but frankly, I would like to
concentrate on the Dragon part, and learn Linux after I finish that stupid
crazy "Dragon 64 as a web server" project.
Thanks a lot,
and sorry if this is really off-topic, just tell me so and I'll quietly
leave the list...
Philippe
