[arachne] Re: Router on dialup

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The reason DOS is so difficult to network is that there is no basic "machine identification" to give the router so that the other computer(s) can/will talk back to it. Oh, if it's just a matter of connecting DOS to internet via router it's a no sweat thing.
Somewhere on the torn apart DOS machine is software which supposedly would have provided that necessary identity to other computers. I believe it is/was actually put out by McSoft. Might want to try doing a 'support' search for "network DOS computer" on MS site? 

l.d.
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Rob wrote:

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I'm sure he could use a telnet server on the windo$e machine.
It's been a few years but I've seen DOS machines accessed
from win2k and Solaris workstations. DOS can be networked.
I'm not sure but the following websites might have some
info he could use.

http://www.freedos.org/freedos/news/technote/157.html
http://www.drdos.com/dosdoc/Tcpip/dos_util/dosutil.htm
http://www.drdos.com/dosdoc/Tcpip/dos_util/dosutil7.htm

This makes me want to load up a DOS box just to see how it
could be done.
Rob

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Udo Kuhnt wrote:


Of course he cannot use telnet - one needs a telnet server running on
the remote machine to do this.

Pinging, however, should work; at least it works with my router.

On my network, the router itself is 192.168.0.1, and the machines on the
net get local IP addresses 192.168.0.2, 192.168.0.3 and so on.

Pinging the router or any of the local machines from any other works
here.

Udo

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