Re: [Freedos-user] Announce: E100PKT 0.1, packet driver for DOS

[Seth <set...@SD...>]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2018 00:03:20 -0600 Rugxulo <ru...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 5:56 PM, Seth <set...@sd...> wrote:
> >
> > There's an update I didn't know about- e100b11c[3]. After adding my device id to its list, it worked!
>
> I'm no networking guru myself, so I only use packet drivers under VMs
> (mostly only FTP or Wget). I know you have enough on your plate, but
> ....
>
> Can you be more specific? "It worked" is somewhat vague. I'm just
> curious exactly what you tried.
>
> Links2? Wget? FTP? IRC? Curl?
>
> We're somewhat limited on builds of such tools, and I'm not exactly
> volunteering to rebuild most of them, but we do at least have some
> working copies. Obviously more stuff exists (Lynx or Arachne or
> HTGET), so I'm not asking you to test literally everything.
>
> For instance, I think the existing FreeDOS Curl builds are old and
> semi-broken, but M.K. rebuilt Curl semi-recently (March 2017). I
> normally prefer Wget (his old build from 2008), but I shun the idea of
> rebuilding it. Hey, I like rebuilding, but some things are annoyingly
> complex. So I haven't personally verified rebuilding those.
>
> http://mik.dyndns.pro/dos-stuff/bin/curl753b.7z    (while latest is 7.57.0)
>
> It's just that we get so few (native) packet drivers, and it's such
> brittle work. I just wish we had slightly more stability,
> reproducibility, etc.

I tested the packet drivers with Minuet's ftp/gopher/www, Arachne,
mTCP ftp/ping/telnet, wget, Links 2.13, and Gopherus without
any problems whatsoever.

The above applies not only to E100PKT and e100b11c, but also e100b11b!
The first time I tried e100b11b was a few weeks ago, when not even
ping worked. I guess my network was down and I didn't know it.

On Tue, 23 Jan 2018 22:18:41 +0100 Robert Riebisch <rr...@bt...> wrote:
> Hi Seth,
>
> > Intel has an NDIS driver for DOS[1], but it's closed-source. Worse, it
> > doesn't even run on DOS (I guess the DOS driver is inside a
> > self-extracting exe that requires Windows?).

> Yes, it's a self-extracting RAR archive.
> Repacked as a ZIP archive: http://www.bttr-software.de/tmp/prodos.zip

Swell, thanks. I took a look at it and at the networking guide in
FreeDOS's help. NDIS configuration (and converting readme.txt from
Unicode to ASCII) seems pretty involved- since the packet drivers work
so well, I'll stick with them.