[arachne] Re: Ray's Alt-D

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Hey, Bastiaan
I hope this doesn't sound dumb, but I'm quite curious
and more than justa little confused by your posts. Are
you using a router on dialup? Also can't you just use
Bootp or DHCP between your computer and router? Or
even static addresses? Couldn't you just load an ethernet
card and driver, and stay always on between the router and
computer? Couldn't autoexec.bat load a NIC driver?
Are you using a com program? Sorry for all the questions.
I tried running Arachne in dosemu and tried to connect to
my router with no luck, but I really didn't spend any
time trying before I gave up. Wondering how you did it.
Rob

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Bastiaan Edelman wrote:


There can be a reason... the packetdriver is used to get acces to the
router and from there I have to dial in to the WWW using telnet.

Using Alt+D says Arachne is already on line which is not true since the
telnet commands should be given first to the router/modem.

When I use connect.bat direct (installed it under Shift+F6) then all is
OK but when Alt+D activates the same connect.bat "Arachne is already
on line" and nothing happens... the timer resets though.

Alt+D => connect.bat
connect.bat:
telnet.exe @connect.scr (=telnet script to connect the modem)
echo online > ppp.log
exit

Alt+H => hangup.bat
hangup.bat:
rem connect\termin.com 0x60
call discon.bat
if exist ppp.log del ppp.log

discon.bat:
telnet.exe @discon.scr (=telnet script to disconnect)
if exist ppp.log del ppp.log
exit

Timer resets on connect and disconnect... perhaps she is counting as
Arachne thinks she is still on line?



You are assuming that everyone uses Arachne as you do.  When using Arachne



Nope, I'm quite aware of the fact that things could be very different
with constant connections.



in OS/2 one can jump to program window list, delete the session and restart
Arachne, press Alt-D and re-establish the connection.  The modem did not lose
the connection.  Arachne thinks it never disconnected.

                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

However, my core always knows when it's connected, unlike std. core
which, if you move to another copy or Arachne, thinks it's offline untill
you press Alt+D -- even tho that Alt+D doesn't really do anything but
create ppp.log. My core sniffs out the packet driver directly.


An installed packet driver does NOT mean Arachne is on line!!


Please leave Alt-D available anytime.



Yeah, I'd need a consensus to change it.


Regards, Bastiaan



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