Amiga to win95 SLIP written by LFO of Phuture 303
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Introduction
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Want to surf on your amiga with SLIP? dont wont to install linux
on your pc? It's possible to set up SLIP on win95! Don't know
how? Then here's how i did it!


Requirements
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A PC running win95/98 with an internet connection
An Amiga
A null modem cable
Some paitience

software you will need on the PC:

Winproxy
(you can get a 30 day trial of winproxy on www.winproxy.com)

software you will need on the Amiga:

Miami 3.x
(you can get a timelimited trial version of miami from www.nordicglobal.com)
Any internet applications you wish to use on the amiga.

Discalimer
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I'm not reponsible for anything you do, any data loss or anything at all :)


Setting it all up
=================

first i'll explain my setup so you can see how you setup may
differ in configuration.

I run an ethernet lan on the pc's with an ip of 90.0.0.x and a
subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 , this ensures that the machines
are unreachable from the outside world. The server (machine
connected to the internet) is multihomed, that means theres more
than one ethernet card in the box and more than one ip on the
machine. Im using a lan/cable connection to the internet and my
isp dns is on 10.x.x.x, however this setup should still work if
you are using a dialup modem from the pc.

setting up on the pc:

Even if you are not running an ethernet lan, give your server 
(machine with modem) an ip address of 90.0.0.1 subnet mask 255.255.255.0
and your other machines (pc's) 90.0.0.2 subnet mask 255.255.255.0 and so
on. (this is done in the network properties found in the control panel)

With the power off on both machines, plug in your null modem cable and 
test it between the amiga and pc (use some terminal programs to make 
sure its working) copy the nullmodem driver (included with this archive)
to your pc's hard drive or to a pc formatted floppy.
(the driver was written by Mark Crossley of Cisco systems and is freely
distributable)

in windows go to the control panel and double click on modems
(there maybe some slight differences in this procedure if you
are using win95a, im using win95b and i seem to remeber some
minor differences)



Select dont detect my modem, i will select it from a list, then
click next


Click have disk, and browse to the where you put the null modem
driver and press ok. 


Now select Generic NULL modem from the displayed list and click next.


Select the com port which you plugged your null modem into and click next.


Windows should now report that its installing your new modem, after a 
few moments and if all went well itll will say your modem is set up,
click finish.


now in the modem properites dialog you should see your null
modem listed as well as any other "real" modem you have on your
system. Next we have to change a setting in the null modem
driver, so select it from the list and press properties. All the
settings are fine to leave alone, except for speed, set that to
57600, you may be able to set this higher, in fact if you have a
powerfull machine you will want to do this, but for the moment
set it to 57600 as this is known to work, and it will help in 
debugging if you have a problem.


Now that the null modem is installed we must make a dialup
connection for it to dial to the amiga.


go to dialup networking and double click on make new connection


give your connection a name such as Amiga SLIP. Select the null
modem and click next.


type in any phone number and location, its not important because
we wont actually be dialing out, windows just wants this
information. Then click next. And then click finish.


Now you should see a new connection in dialup networking called
Amiga SLIP (or whatever you named it to) Select it and right
click on it and select properties.


Select the server tab and make sure the server type is set to
PPP windows 95, Windows nt 3.5 internet. Now uncheck all of the 
boxes except for tcp/ip.


Now click on tcp/ip settings.


click on specify an ip address and enter 192.168.1.1
make sure below this, server assigned name server addresses is
selected. check use ip header compression, and leave use default
gateway unchecked. Now click ok and then click ok again.


At this point the pc is almost configured for the tcp/ip
connection, all that remains for you to do is make a textfile.

open up notepad and enter this




192.168.1.1     windows
192.168.1.2     amiga




save the file into your windows directory naming it HOSTS. Make sure
it is actually called HOSTS and has no file extention, notepad may
save it as HOSTS.TXT this will not work, if this is the case
manually go to your windows dir and rename it to HOSTS


now reboot the pc, its almost ready for the connection.


Once the pc has restarted install winproxy (you can use another
proxy/firewall program if you like, but this one worked for me)


setup winproxy on your server (90.0.0.1, the machine with the
modem) to proxy, http , ftp, socks 4 and socks 5 and any
other services you may require, the only really important thing
to change is the socks server port, change that to 1280.
if you get stuck setting up winproxy read the help file that
came with it, everything is covered there.


once this is done, the pc is ready. Now we have to setup up on
the amiga.


setting up on the amiga
=======================
Open up miami, we shall just change whats needed, the rest can
be left as default.


in the interface settings:

serial driver (ppp/cslip/ip)
driver: serial.device unit 0
speed: 57600
protocol:async PPP
flow control: rts/cts
eof mode: auto
serial mode: 8n1
ip type : static
ip address: 192.168.1.2
multicasts disabled
mtu :1005

then click ok


in the tcp/ip settings:

uncheck dynamic hostname
hostname: amiga
real name : your name
user name : your user name
check use ICMP
uncheck all other check boxes

then click ok


in the modem settings:

check null modem

then click ok


in the socks settings:

check enable socks
default socks server : 90.0.0.1 port 1280
maximum syslog level: none
authentication method : none

then click ok


Now go to the database settings, theres a toggle gadget with
several sections, we'll only mention those that have to be
changed, the rest can be left on the default settings.


in the hosts settings of the database
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there may already be some entrys here, if there are delete or
disable them.

now add two new entries,

ip:192.168.1.1 name:windows
ip:192.168.1.2 name:amiga



in the dns settings of the database
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add a dns server of

ip : 90.0.0.1


in the socks settings of the database
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add a socks server of

type : socks5
command : 90.0.0.1
hosts : windows
ports : 1280


now save your settings and exit miami.


Now you are finished setting up miami. But before we connect up
to the net we have to change the settings for your browser.
Open your browser up, im using voyager, but it should be the
same for other browsers.


In Voyager go to the setings and select net settings,


check use http proxy,and enter host 90.0.0.1 port 80
leave the ftp and other proxys unchecked and blank, they will
work via the socks already set up in miami.

click ok


save the new settings and leave voyager.


now we are finally ready to connect to the net, restart both machines.


How to connect to the net
=========================
on the pc connect to the internet as usual, when you are online
go to the amiga and start miami and click online, the dialer 
window will open and wait for a connection, now on the pc double
click on your amiga SLIP connecton (the one you made before in dialup 
networking) when it says connecting, go back to miami and click 
send break. If all goes well you will see miami find the ip numbers
and after which you will be online.

Thats it, you can now run all your internet programs as usual,
not to mention have the ability to surf on two machines
simultainiously. Try running your browser irc or ftp programs,
if all went well then you can feel happy with yourself as you
have achived the so called "impossible"


Problems?
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It should have worked, go back over the text again slowly to make sure
you've not missed anything. If you're sure you've done everything that
i've said and it still doesn't work then drop me an email on

phuture303@rocketmail.com

please note i will only answer questions related to the setups mentioned
in this text, i WILL NOT answer any questions related to winproxy or any
other proxy server you may be trying to set up, please don't send me any
mail on this subject, if you do, then don't expect a reply as i'll
simply just ignore them. Send them to the people at winproxy as they get
paid to answer such questions!

Finally if it works for you and it pleases you, drop me a thank you email,
it may inspire me to figure out PLIP :)


greetings from LFO
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a special thanks must go to SCA for pointing me in the right direction
on getting this project to work. (SCA: now with this text file you should
have your SLIP working too :)


greets (in no order) go out to...

Lutka, Tweek, Vention, Sneeze, Hallis, Mortimer Twang, Orlingo,
Azure, Parsec, Vovse, Guffaw, Emoon, Zack, Psycho, Kalms, Kalsu,
Grace, Kuu (idle child), POW, Zany, that Buzz whore and the many more 
sceners i've inevitably missed...


greets also to those low ping guys at InnerLoop who keep fragging me...
(shorty:i got my revenge though on that other server eh :)