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From: jrd@cc.usu.edu (Joe Doupnik)
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Subject: Re: TCP/IP?
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Date: 21 Oct 98 17:06:50 MDT
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In article <70l9n2$hd1$1@team2.teamnet.net>, "draft2" <nobody@cfu.net> writes:
> Is it possible to do TCP/IP through DOS?
> I have an 80386 with 2M RAM and a 10baseT betwork adapter. I do not run
> windows. Our internet provider (whom I happen to work for) provides a
> 500kbps connection via cable modems. Now, as far as it is set up, it is like
> a regular network set up all over the city. We convert the signals to analog
> and send it over the cables, just like cable TV, the nthe cable modem sends
> it back to digital to the network card. Each computer must access a DHCP
> server unless given a static IP address. My question is, will kermit
> facilitate this type of connection and if so, can someone give me some
> intstruction.
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What might you mean by "facilitate"? If the answer is do something
particular about cable modems the answer is no. MS-DOS Kermit is the program
you are inferring, and it uses its internal TCP/IP stack to talk over SLIP,
some PPP, and ODI lan drivers. Once that is done the medium is responsible
for behaving as advertised (if Ethernet then it must behave as true Ethernet
to attached equipment). MSK supports RARP, BOOTP, DHCP remote address
acquisition. How one chooses to represent bits on wires off site is not
of interest here.
Instructions on this are in the release documentation and the main
user's manual the book "Using MS-DOS Kermit". Please visit www.columbia.edu/
kermit for pointers to the material.
Being an MS-DOS program, MS-DOS Kermit runs in 640K memory space,
and will use extended or expanded memory if available.
Joe D.