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Kali Documentation (c) Copyright 1995 by Jay Cotton All right reserved. (comments: jay@kali.net) updated 11/16/95 Introduction Most games only support IPX networks and modem/direct serial link play; TCP/IP networks are not natively supported. With the right software, however, most games designed to be played over IPX LANs can be fooled into operating over the Internet. Kali uses the UDP protocol to send game information between multiple machines on the Internet. Kali has been used to play Descent, Doom, Doom II, Heretic, Hexen, Command & Conquer, Apache, Rise of the Triad, Terminal Velocity, Warcraft, VR Pool, Super Karts, Mortal Combat 3, and other games over the Internet with opponents from all over the world (not all games will be fast enough from modem connections). Getting Prepared - Hardware To use Kali, you will need the following hardware: * If your site is directly connected to the Internet (NOT connected through a modem!), you'll need a network interface card (NIC) for your machine. And not just any old NIC, mind you - your NIC must be supported by a packet driver if you wish to use it to play Internet games. Usually this means that your NIC must be an ethernet card, although Kali has been successfully played over token ring. We will assume that your PC is already equipped with a suitable NIC, although it may currently be in use for some other non-TCP/IP function (such as a node on a Novell network). As long as your NIC is supported by a standard packet driver, your machine can be readily converted into a Kali "playstation." * If you are not directly connected, you'll need a high speed modem (the faster the better) as well as an account with an ISP (Internet Service Provider) which has suitable dialup facilities. NOTE: Users with "shell accounts" or who use SLIP emulators such as TIA and SLiRP can also use Kali. See the section "Using Kali with a shell account." *If you're currently using SLIP or PPP, but your drivers operate from under Microsoft Windows (such as Trumpet Winsock), you MUST obtain a DOS SLIP or PPP driver; your Windows-based drivers will NOT work for Kali. Kali will NOT work in a DOS windows under Windows 95. A version of Kali written to work with Win95's built- in TCPIP drivers is in development. Please don't email and ask when it will be finished. I just don't know yet. Getting Prepared - Software In addition to the hardware requirements, some software is also required to complete your setup. Before you can play, you'll need to pick up the following: * A packet driver. The packet driver is a standardized interface that lets Kali "talk" to an ethernet card or modem. PPP users can use Merit's etherppp (ppp.zip) or Klos's PPP driver (pppshare.zip). SLIP users can use slipper or cslipper (slippr15.zip). * Kali, the TCP/IP network driver for IPX games. * Some basic network diagnostic tools, such as a PING and TCPINFO program. These are not absolutely necessary, but can definitely be useful for debugging and testing your setup (apps.zip). Finding Kali and Related Files ------------------------------ To obtain Kali, log on to one of the following ftp sites (using anonymous ftp). Change to the specified directory (e.g. cd /pub/kali). Download the file kali12k.zip. This is the latest version of Kali as of this writing. ftp://ftp.kali.net/kali/ ftp://ftp.axxis.com/pub/kali/ ftp://ftp.internexus.net/pub/kali/ The following Web sites also include information and some files: http://www.axxis.com/kali/ http://www.internexus.net/kali/ http://www.teleport.com/~caustic/ http://gremlinx.bevc.blacksburg.va.us/ http://www.kali.net/ (under construction) Finding ethernet packet drivers (not needed for modem use) ----------------------------------------------------------- Many ethernet cards come with the appropriate packet drivers on a utilities diskette packaged with the card. If your card does not come with a packet driver, there is an excellent collection of freely available packet drivers called the Crynwr Packet Driver collection. You can obtain it via anonymous ftp from: ftp://oak.oakland.edu/simtel/msdos/pktdrvr/pktd11.zip ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/simtel/msdos/pktdrvr/pktd11.zip Most of the Kali ftp sites mentioned above also carry this collection of drivers. Finding slip or ppp packets drivers ----------------------------------- SLIP (or SLiRP) users should get the file slippr15.zip and PPP users should get the file ppp.zip. Both of these files can be found at the Kali sites listed above. Diagnostic Software ------------------- If you need basic network diagnostic utilities, the WATTCP applications are freely available and include a PING program. Look for a file called apps.zip on your favorite ftp site, or find it and other wattcp sources at: ftp://dorm.rutgers.edu/pub/msdos/wattcp/ NOTE: people using SLiRP will not be able to use ping utility. Setting up the Hardware Setting up your computer to use a DOS packet driver can be complicated for people who aren't network gurus. This section will attempt to show you all the steps needed to get the packet driver installed and functioning properly. Ethernet Setup Procedure (NOT for modem users!) ----------------------------------------------- Step 0: START WITH A CLEAN BOOT!!!!! Set up your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files to load as few drivers as possible. Some definite things to EXclude are memory managers (HIMEM, EMM386, QEMM, etc.) and network drivers (e.g. LSL, IPXODI). Most games don't need the former, and the latter will probably conflict with the packet driver. We recommend that you prepare an alternate configuration (the multiple configuration facility built into MS-DOS is ideal for this purpose; see your DOS manual for details) specifically for Internet games with a CONFIG.SYS portion containing only a FILES=20 line, and an AUTOEXEC.BAT portion containing only the line "prompt=$p$g". Be sure to include the line which loads your mouse driver (if you play your game using a mouse). Step 1: Set up the packet driver. If you do not already have a suitable packet driver installed on your machine, now is the time to install one. Start by determining your ethernet card's IRQ setting, it's base I/O port setting, and it's memory address setting (if any). You should be able to determine this by looking at the card itself and consulting the user manual. You'll need some if not all of this information, depending upon which packet driver you use and/or type of hardware you have (for example, some IBM computers with theMicroChannel bus can determine the settings on the card automatically without you having to supply them on the packet driver command line). Unzip the appropriate driver from Crynwr Packet Driver collection archive. In our example, the packet driver is called SMC_WD.COM. By looking at the jumpers on the card and consulting the manual, I determined that the card has been set to IRQ 7, Base I/O port address 300h, and the base memory address is at segment d800h. For this example, I have chosen to use interrupt 60h for the packet driver. Packet drivers typically operate on an interrupt in the range of 60h to 80h inclusive; since nothing else in my sample system happens to be using the first available interrupt (INT 60h), I chose that. Thus, to load my packet driver, I use the command line SMC_WD 0x60 0x7 0x300 0xd800 where 0x60 is the packet driver interrupt, 0x7 is the IRQ setting on the card, 0x300 is the I/O port base address, and 0xd800 is the memory base address (NOTE: all numbers are in C-style HEX notation). Don't worry if you don't understand what all this stuff means - as long as you use the correct numbers, your packet driver should work. NOTE: If your PC is currently part of a Novell network (e.g. Netware, Netware Lite, Personal Netware) the parameters you need can be found in a file called NET.CFG, usually located in your \NOVELL, \NWLITE or \NWCLIENT subdirectories (along with all the other drivers needed by Novell). Add the proper command line to the AUTOEXEC.BAT for your Kali configuration so that the packet driver will be loaded automatically whenever you boot using the Kali partition. When successfully loaded, the packet driver should give a sign on message and report the ethernet address of your NIC when you load it. Chances are that if your NIC has been functioning properly for other tasks (e.g. as a node on a Novell network) then you'll have no problems here. If not, or if there are any error or warning messages, something is wrong (D'OHH!). One possibility is that one of the settings on your NIC is in conflict with those of another expansion card in your system. No two cards can have the same IRQ, I/O port, or memory address settings, nor can the memory areas of two cards overlap. Whatever the cause, you'll need to find and correct the problem before continuing. SLIP Setup Procedure -------------------- This procedure assumes that you are using the cslipper SLIP driver mentioned earlier. If you are using a different driver, you'll need to change the commands which follow accordingly. Step 0: Obtain Internet access from a service provider who allows SLIP connections on their terminal server. A "shell account" (where you log in to a remote UNIX host and type commands such as "telnet" and "ftp") will require a SLIP emulator called SLiRP (read the SLiRP section below before continuing). How to obtain this type of service from such a provider is beyond the scope of this document. Also, if you are using a Microsoft Windows-based SLIP or PPP driver, such as Trumpet Winsock, you MUST obtain and install a DOS SLIP or PPP driver on your machine. Kali will NOT work with Windows drivers such as Trumpet or Cameleon. It will NOT work with Windows 95 drivers or even work with DOS drivers in a Windows 95 DOS session. You will have to reboot in DOS mode. Step 1: Using your favorite serial communications package, dial in to your service provider, log in, and issue whatever commands are required to change their terminal server to SLIP mode. How this is done varies from service provider to service provider and is beyond the scope of this document. Check with your service provider for more details. Once you have logged on and enabled SLIP mode, exit your telecommunications software WITHOUT HANGING UP THE MODEM - this is VERY IMPORTANT! Any telecommunications package worth the floppy on which it comes will have a "save without hangup" command, or will prompt you when you exit to ask whether it should hang up or not. Change to the directory where you have installed your packet driver and load it. An example command line for CSLIPPER is CSLIPPER com1 vec=0x60 baud=57600 where com1 is the serial port to which your modem is connected, 0x60 is the interrupt vector the packet driver should use, and 57600 is the DTE baud rate (the baud rate between the computer and the modem, not necessarily the speed at which the modem has connected to the remote system). The packet driver will display a signon message and load itself into memory. Your SLIP packet driver is now loaded and ready for testing. Using Kali with a PPP account and Merit's etherppp ================================================== First you need a login script. The login script must be in the file called dial.ppp. Here is an example script: DIAL.PPP: send "at&f2\r" ;select factory default settings recv 3000 "OK\r\n" ;wait 3 seconds for OK response from modem send "atdt1234567\r" ;dial your provider; the \r is for RETURN recv 60000 "login:" ;wait 60 seconds for login prompt send "<username>\r" ;send your username and RETURN recv 10000 "Password:" ;wait 1 second for password prompt send "<password>\r" ;send your password and RETURN Note: the login and password prompts much match those used by your provider. If your host uses the prompt "Please login:" you can get away with telling ppp to look for just "login:". Be very careful that you use the EXACT same spelling, capitalization, and spacing that your host's prompt uses. If your host uses "login :" and you put "login:" in dial.ppp (notice the missing space) the script will never complete. For the password prompt be sure to match the host's password prompt (or at least the last word or last few letters of the prompt). For example, if your host's password prompt is "Enter you Password:", you could put "Password:" in dial.ppp. Something shorter like "word:" would also work. If you changed the capitalization to "password:" the script would not work. If the script appears to stop after a certain prompt, there is probably something wrong with your script. Be patient if it seems to stop after the password prompt since there is usually a delay of about 5-30 seconds before the host reports your ip# and ppp returns to the DOS prompt. The setup string above, at&f2, works for most Hayes modems. If you have a USR modem try at&f1. If in doubt check your modem's manual for a setup string that turns on data compression, error correction, and hardware (RTS/CTS) flow control. The next thing you need is a batch file to run ppp.exe. Edit the sample batch filed called dial.bat to match your system requirements. DIAL.BAT: ppp /c 2 /d script /s 57600 /v The "/c 2" tells PPP to dial out on COM2. The "/d script" tells PPP to use the file DIAL.PPP as a script. The "/s 57600" tells PPP to connect at 57600 (I've got a 14.4 modem and 16550 UART). As of this writing, 57600 is the fastest speed supported by ppp.exe (some people fool ppp.exe into running at 115200 by using /s 65500). If you don't have a 16550 uart, you should select 38400 for the speed. The /v tells ppp to use verbose mode (displays more on the screen). Put your nickname in kali.cfg and then put your network information in wattcp.cfg. In many cases, this information will change each time you connect. In this case, you will have to re-edit wattcp.cfg each time. A program called snatch is included with Kali. Running snatch right after ppp.exe will usually fix the ip# in wattcp.cfg for you. It will only work if ppp.exe, snatch.exe, and wattcp.cfg are all in the same directory. Read the snatch.doc file. Kali with Compuserve and Merit's etherppp ========================================= From: Lawrence Reiss <72620.1261@compuserve.com> Here's the script: send "at&f2\r" ;at&f1 for USR recv 3000 "OK\r\n" send "atdt9323198\r" ;put your local access# here recv 60000 "CONNECT" send "\r" recv 60000 "Host Name:" send "CIS\r" recv 60000 "User ID:" send "12345,1234/go:pppconnect\r" ;put your own login id here recv 60000 "Password:" send "<password>\r" ;and your own password Run the dialer in the usual way with this script, remembering NOT to touch the keyboard until you get an ip address. There will be a delay of perhaps 30 seconds or so. Copy the ip number onto the my_ip line of the wattcp.cfg file, or use the program "snatch". Run kali in the usual way! Using Kali with Netcom's Netcruiser and Merit etherppp ------------------------------------------------------- From: Byron Followell <followel@ix.netcom.com> Use this script: send "at&f2\r" (or at&f1 for USR) recv 3000 "OK\r\n" send "atdt5551212\r" (substitute your local number) recv 60000 "login: " send "#<username>\r" (substitute your own username) recv 6000 "Password: " send "<password>\r" (and your password goes here) Make sure you keep the # in front of your username. That's what logs you onto a PPP connection. Replace <password> with your valid password. Your IP address will change everytime, but, only the last number should change. For example, you may be on 204.31.246.55 this session and then 204.31.246.23 then next time. Using Kali with Klos' pppshare Driver ===================================== This driver is more complicated to setup than Merit's etherppp driver. It does offer a faster connection and uses less memory so it's worth the extra effort in most cases. Get the files pppshare.zip and lsl.zip from your favorite Kali ftp site. Don't get the ppp.exe from ppp.zip and pppshare.zip mixed up. They are completely different. Unzip pppshare.zip and lsl.zip in your Kali directory. The first step is configuring net.cfg. You can use pppmenu to edit this file or manually edit the sample.cfg file that came with pppshare (be sure to rename it net.cfg). If you run pppmenu without the lsl.com and ppp.exe loaded it will still allow you to modify your net.cfg file, but it won't allow you to start a connection. Using pppmenu to configure net.cfg ---------------------------------- Since the menu system in pppmenu is fairly extensive I won't cover everything, but I'll try to explain most of it. Run pppmenu. You will get the Main Menu. If ppp.exe is already loaded you will get options for Connect, Disconnect, Status Display, Hang-up, and Terminal Mode. If ppp.exe isn't loaded you will only get an option to edit the Current Configuration. We want to edit this configuration. If ppp.exe is loaded select Connect and the press F1 to Modify Profile. If ppp.exe is not loaded just press enter on the Current option. Port menu: I/O Port: allows you to select com1/2/3/4 or special. If you select "special" you will be given the chance to set your modem's Base Port. Interrupt: this is usually selected automatically based on the I/O port you selected above. For com1 and com3 use interrupt 4. For com2 and com4 use interrupt 3. Baudrate: if you are using a 16550 uart and a 28.8 modem select 115200. Some people have reported problems running at this speed. Try 57600 if you get lockups. If you have a 16550 uart and a 14.4 modem select 57600. If you don't have a 16550 uart you must select a speed of 38400 or slower. Flow Control: select Hardware. Open Type: select Active for most configurations. Listen: select Don't Answer. Connection type: you have a choice here. If you know your script works and you don't want to watch it run, select Modem-Auto Dial. If you want to watch the connection process from pppmenu select Modem-Demand Dial. If you don't want to run a script and want to login manually, select Modem-Terminal. Frame Type: this option will not affect pppshare with Kali. Pick anything you want (I use Ethernet II). Modem Menu: Phone Number: put your local access number here. Modem Name: just a description of your modem. Command Strings: these are your modem's setup strings. Use the Initialization Strings to setup your modem to use data compression, error correction, and RTS/CTS flow control. Most Hayes compatables need at&f2 and USR modems use at&f1. Check you modem's manual. The Dialing Prefix should be set to ATDT in most cases. Answer string isn't used but should be set to ATA. The hangup string for most modems is ATH0. Timers/Counters: Set the number of Dial Retries to 10. Set the Connection Timeout to 90. Pause time to 5. Inactivity time to 5. These numbers aren't written in stone, but there's usually no reason to modify them. Scripting Menu: This is where you setup your dialing script. The scripting is accomplished by having you provide a set of prompts and the appropriate responses to each. You do not have to enter the prompts for dialing and connecting since this will be taken care of automatically by pppshare. Your script will probably begin with a prompt (Expected String) something like "username:". The response would be your actual username. If you put a "\r" at the end of the response, pppshare will type a carriage-return for you. You *DO* want this in most cases. You will then probably need to enter a prompt for your password in a similar manner. If you get confused, you can always manually edit the script by editting net.cfg as described in the next section of this FAQ. Most standard C string sequences can be used. E.g. \n for newline, \0-7 octal number, \" double quote, \r carriage return, etc. LCP Parameters: Maximum Receive Unit: set to 1500. Async-Control Map: set to FFFFFFFF. Magic Number: set to 00000000. Protocol Compression: normal set on. Some people might have to turn this off if using an older PPP terminal server. Address/Control Compression: same as above. Normally on. IP Parameters: Enable/Disable IP: Set to Enable IP. Header Compression: set to Disable for pppshare. The shareware version will not support header compression. Since this won't affect Kali don't worry about it. IP Address: doesn't matter. You do NOT have to set this to the number you are using when you connect. Authentication Menu: Select the None option unless you want to use PAP. The setup for PAP is beyond the scope of this FAQ. That's it! See? Easy as cake! OK, what did we do when we ran pppmenu? We created a file called net.cfg. Read the next section to find out more. Actually, you have to read the next section anyway since pppmenu doesn't cover the Link Support section of the net.cfg file. Manually Editing net.cfg for pppshare and Kali ---------------------------------------------- The net.cfg file needs two sections for using Kali with pppshare. The first section is called the Link Support section. Notice that capitalization doesn't matter in most cases (except for scripting). The link support section should look something like this: LINK SUPPORT BUFFERS 8 1500 MEMPOOL 8192 This section is used by LSL. LSL is "Link Support Layer." It's a standard developed by Novell to make it easier to develop drivers for different types of connections (SLIP, PPP, ethernet). The Buffers line tells LSL to create 8 buffers each 1500 bytes in size. The 1500 you see here shouldn't be changed. You can adjust the number of buffers but usually this should be between 4 and 16. The more buffers you have the less likely you are to lose an incoming packet when traffic is going in quickly. The only reason you don't always want to run 16 buffers is because each buffer takes up 1.5K. 16 of these would be 24K! Most people can't afford this much memory. If you have some upper memory to spare you can load lsl high and all of these buffers will be created in upper memory (assuming there's room). Mempool is an area of memory used by LSL when doing it's work. There isn't much reason to adjust this too much, but be sure to have at least 4096 bytes. You might go as high as 16384, but I really don't know if it will give you any performance increase. If it does, please let me know and I'll pass this information along. The next section of the net.cfg file is the Link Driver section. In the case of pppshare this will be labeled "Link Driver PPP". If you rename ppp.exe to another name like sillyppp.exe, you will have to rename this section "Link Driver sillyppp". Here is a typical link driver section: LINK DRIVER PPP CONFIGURATION "Current" FRAME ETHERNET_II PORT COM2 BAUD 115200 FLOW CONTROL HARDWARE CONNECTION AUTODIAL OPEN ACTIVE DIAL 5551212 MODEM NAME "Supra FAXmodem" MODEM INIT3 "at&f2" IPXCP DISABLE PCOMP ON ACCOMP ON SCRIPT1 "login:" "#joecool\r" 20 SCRIPT2 "Password:" "snoopy\r" 30 This isn't all the information that is possible in the link driver section, but it contains all the important parts for Kali usage. The CONFIGURATION keyword is just a way to identify this particular setup. FRAME isn't used with Kali so you can ignore it for now. PORT and BAUD should be obvious. FLOW CONTROL should always be set to HARDWARE. CONNECTION can be set to direct, modem, autodial, demand, or terminal. This tells ppp.exe what to do when it loads. The direct and modem options aren't normally used. Set to autodial if you know the script works. Set to demand if you want to manually start the script from within pppmenu. Set to terminal if you want to do the entire login process from a terminal window in pppmenu. Leave OPEN set to active for most setups. Try passive if the host hangs up on you when you first connect to it. Use DIAL to set the phone number of your internet provider. The Modem Name option is just a way to tell someone reading this script what kinda modem you have. MODEM INIT|INIT1, MODEM INIT2, and MODEM INIT3 are used to set init strings for your modem. Most Hayes compatables only need at&f2 and most USR modems need at&f1. Check your modem's manual to find the init string needed to get data compression, error correction and RTS/CTS flow control. IPXCP DISABLE must be set when using the shareware driver (pppshare). Don't worry, this doesn't affect the IPX in Kali. PCOMP and ACCOMP are PPP compression strategies. These are normally set to ON. The SCRIPT lines are used to accomplish simple scripting. These lines consist of three parts: the expected prompt, the appropriate response, and the time to wait in seconds. In the example above ppp would wait 20 seconds for the "Host Name:" prompt. If it gets the prompt it will reply with "CIS\r". The "\r" tells ppp to issue a carriage return. If ppp doesn't see the "Host Name:" prompt for 20 seconds it will go ahead and issue the "CIS\r" response and continue to the next script line. Loading the Drivers ------------------- Unlike Merit's etherppp (ppp.zip), the Klos driver has several pieces. You must load these in the proper order to get the driver running. You can create a batch file to simplify matter. My match file looks like this: dial.bat: lsl ppp pppmenu pppwat ipstub Only the lsl, ppp, and ipstub programs actually remain in memory. The pppmenu program is used to monitor your connection and the pppwat program edits your wattcp.cfg file for you to put the proper ip# in the my_ip line. All of these files including kali.exe and wattcp.cfg should reside in the same directory. If you run the batch file above, lsl will load, ppp will load (after a brief pause), and the pppmenu will run. What you do in pppmenu depends on how you setup net.cfg. If you set net.cfg to autodial, you can just select the Status Displays. You will see a screen with a bunch of silly numbers that mean nothing to most of us. The important thing to watch is the LCP State and IPCP State displays. These will say "Initial" when you first see them. They should eventually say "?????" <look it up> when your connection completes properly. At this time you can exit pppmenu and the pppwat program will run quicky as it edits wattcp.cfg and then the IPSTUB program will load. If you set net.cfg for demand dial you will need to select the Connect option in pppmenu to start the connection. You should see the status of the connection as it attempts to complete. If you selected "terminal" you will have to enter the Terminal Mode screen and manually dial and connect to your provider. You're on your own here folks. What is IPSTUB? IPSTUB is your packet driver. It provides the interface between Kali and pppshare. It's very similar to ODIPKT except that it doesn't require any configuration information in net.cfg or any command-line options to load properly. Any of these drivers, lsl, ppp, and ipstub, can be loaded into upper memory. You can load just one or two into upper memory or all three or none. Doesn't matter. At least you have three small files and at least one or two will usually fit in an upper memory block. Using Kali with pppshare ------------------------ Once the drivers are loaded Kali should work just like when used with any other driver. Most people find pppshare to be faster than etherppp and it always uses less memory to load. Don't forget to set netmask = 0.0.0.0 and ppp = 1 in wattcp.cfg just like you would do with etherppp. Technical Support ----------------- If you have questions about the PPP driver, or would like additional technical or pricing information, please call Klos Technologies, Inc. at (603) 424-8300 or send email to "support@klos.com". Do NOT send questions about Kali to this address or phone number. Direct all Kali questions to help@kali.net. Using Kali With a Shell Account =============================== To use Kali with a shell account, you need a SLIP emulator. The only SLIP emulator that current supports port-redirection (something very important to Kali) is a program called SLiRP. Many internet providers, including netcom, use TIA for SLIP access. TIA 2.0 doesn't work with Kali. Use SLiRP instead. You *must* use SLiRP version 0.9k or newer. The older versions just won't work with Kali (problems with the UDP redirection code). To get SLiRP, login into your shell account and from there download the SLiRP source code from your favorite Kali site, or the latest can always be found at: ftp://blitzen.canberra.edu.au/pub/slirp/ The instructions for installing SLiRP are included with this program. The installation of SLiRP is done from your shell account, not DOS. Basically, you will need to unzip the archive first by typing: gunzip slirp-0.9k.tar.gz You then must untar the archive by typing: tar -xvf slirp-0.9k.tar This will create a directory structure called slirp-0.9k/. Go to the src subdirectory by typing cd slirp-0.9k/src. Type: configure Then type: make This will create a file called slirp. Copy this file to your home directory. Something like: cp slirp ~ might work. Then, using your favorite text editor, create a file called .slirprc in your home directory. Put the following in this file: redir udp 2213 to aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd:2213 baudrate 28800 mtu 2000 *** VERY IMPORTANT - SLiRP USERS PLEASE READ THIS *** Replace aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd with the ip number of the host (unix) machine. Use this same number in your wattcp.cfg file. Your ip number will be the same as that of your host. Do NOT use the ip number reported by SLiRP anywhere in your configuration. If you do, it just won't work! I'm serious. I *know* that SLiRP says you can use any ip number you want. For most applications this is fine, but Kali *must* *must* *must* have SLiRP setup using the unix host's ip# in wattcp.cfg (my_ip) and in the redirection commands in .slirprc. Ok? Also, the baudrate is not the actual speed of the modem. It's hard to explain. Read the SLiRP docs for more info. Basically, higher numbers have faster through-put and slower response; lower numbers have slower through-put and faster response. You can experiment. Next, follow all the steps for using SLIP above. As far as connecting to your SLIP provider, connect to your shell account as you normally would. If you are connecting through a terminal server, be sure to get an 8 bit connection using rlogin. Some terminal servers have commands like "terminal download" or "set session 1 passall" to provide a better connection for pseudo SLIP users. If you have trouble with Kali working through a terminal server, be sure to look into this. After attaching and logging in, just type slirp. Exit your communication program without hanging up and continue like other SLIP users (see above). NOTE: Since SLiRP users must share the ip number of their host, two Kali players on the same host will have to use different ports for Kali. If you get an error when running SLiRP that says you don't have permission to redirect the port, try using a different port. Try 2214 instead. IMPORTANT: if you use a different port, be sure to add a line in your kali.cfg file that reads something like: port = 2214 Also, if you plan to host a Kali VSN, the other players will have to enter your port number on the command line like this: Kali aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd 2214 Setting up and using Kali Step 1: Set up a new directory where Kali and all its configuration files will be kept. You can name this directory anything you like (I suggest c:\Kali). UnZIP the kali103.zip file into this new directory, and make it the default (chdir to it). We will refer to this directory as the "Kali directory." Step 3: Set up your WATTCP.CFG file. Your WATTCP.CFG file contains important parameters used by the WATTCP TCP/IP kernel built into Kali. These values MUST be entered correctly if you wish to make a connection with another Kali node. In preparation for this, you'll need several bits of information. Ethernet users should contact the network administrator for your site and find out the IP address for your machine, the IP address for your gateway or router, the IP address of at least one Domain Name Server local to your site, and your netmask value. SLIP and PPP users will only have to know their own ip# and a nameserver; the ip# is usually reported each time you connect. If using snatch this will be taken care if automatically when you connect. IP addresses consist of four groups of digits separated by periods. In our example, the machine's IP address is 128.191.23.5, the gateway is 128.191.23.1, the netmask is 255.255.255.0, and the nameserver address is 128.191.44.67. NOTE: it is important to use the numeric IP addresses, not the actual host names. NOTE: If you have other internet programs currently installed on your machine, such as a Gopher client, the Trumpet newsreader, or the iFrag program, you can probably find the information you need in the configuration files used for those programs. If the application is based on the Waterloo TCP package, it will have it's own WATTCP.CFG, in which case you can simply copy it over to your Kali directory. When you have collected all this information, use your favorite ASCII text editor to edit the WATTCP.CFG file in your Kali directory. Edit or add the lines beginning with my_ip=, gateway=, nameserver=, and netmask=. On our example machine, the WATTCP.CFG file for an ethernet user looks like this: my_ip = 128.191.23.5 gateway = 128.191.23.1 netmask = 255.255.255.0 nameserver = 128.191.23.9 For a PPP user: my_ip = 128.191.23.5 nameserver = 128.191.23.9 netmask = 0.0.0.0 ppp = 1 For a SLIP user: my_ip = 128.191.23.5 nameserver = 128.191.23.9 If you are a PPP user don't forget the ppp=1 option. The sample wattcp.cfg that comes with Kali already has this line but it has a semicolon and a space in front of it. Remove the semicolon and space to activate the option. Save the changed file and exit back to DOS. If you don't know the proper values for some or all of these settings, you can see if your site runs what is called a BOOTP server. If your LAN has a BOOTP server installed, you can put "BOOTP" on the "my_ip=" line and leave the other lines out (except the ppp=1 line). Kali will contact the BOOTP server and determine all the settings it needs to communicate with other machines on the Internet. If your site is not running a BOOTP server, then your task is a little more difficult (but not impossible!) Ethernet players only: If you know your machine's IP address, but you can't determine the other values, you can often get away with some educated guesswork. For instance, the gateway for a subnet usually has an IP address ending in .1, as is the case with our example. Thus, if your IP address is xxx.yyy.zzz.www, try setting your gateway's IP address to xxx.yyy.zzz.1. As for the subnet mask, a common value for this parameter is 255.255.255.0. In some cases, the gateway value can be something like xxx.yyy.1.1 with a corresponding netmask value of 255.255.0.0 - if one doesn't work, it can't hurt to try the other. Finally, if you don't know your nameserver's IP address, you can probably get by without it for the purposes of playing Internet games. Since you'll be specifying IP addresses for all of your opponents' machines, a nameserver lookup won't be necessary to resolve their addresses. Testing your TCP/IP Setup If everything looks OK, the next step is to use the PING program to test your connection (SLiRP users will have to skip this section). At the DOS prompt, type PING <ip#> 10 <ip#> should be replaced with a know ip#. The list of servers below would be a good set to test with. An example might be: PING 204.96.20.10 10 After a brief delay, you should see 10 lines showing a response from the host including the round trip time for PING's test packets. If you see the "Timeout" error message, then something is wrong with your setup; if your PC is unable to ping, kali will probably not work. Put Me in, Coach - I'm Ready to Play! Not quite yet. Be sure to edit your kali.cfg and kchat.cfg files. Registered users should be sure to include a serial#, key, skey, realname, email, and other parameters. Something like this: kali.cfg -------- Nickname = KingThug (that's me!) serial = xxxxxxxxxxxx key = xxxxxxxxxxxx skey = xxxxxxxxxxxx realname = Jay Cotton email = jay@kali.net other = Call 1-801-565-1443 and order Kali today! tracker = 206.197.190.20 @world = kali.net @central = 204.96.20.10 @bob = 128.191.23.34 The lines beginning with the @ sign are server shortcuts. These lines allow you to type: KALI @world and Kali will look in the kali.cfg file for "@world=" and replace this with the actual ip# or address. You can also type "kali /a" and Kali will query all the servers on the Kali Tracker and list the players. kchat.cfg --------- Nickname = KingThug lines = 50 beeponarrival macro1 = I *really* hate macros! macro2 = This is my second macro! macro3 = This is my third macro! macro8 = This is my eighth macro! macro9 = /quit Bah! Humbug! The macros are accessible by pressing alt-#, where # is replaced by the number of the macro. "lines" can be set to 25 or 50. "beeponarrival" causes Kali Chat to beep when people join. Read the sample kchat.cfg for more. Now I'm Really Ready! Right? All right! Kali is now installed and ready for carnage! Now you need to find opponents. There are several Kali Servers that you can connect to and find other players. Kali Servers are special Kali nodes that run 24 hours a day, all year round. The purpose of Kali Servers is to provide a common meeting place for Kali players. Here is the most recent list of Kali Servers: ip# Name Full name --- ---- --------- 204.96.20.10 Kali Central tracker.texas.net 206.197.190.20 Kali World kali.net 205.199.96.2 AXXIS Server axxis.com 204.97.214.4 CastleNet kali.castle.net 193.130.144.1 FlexNet gate.dungeon.com 204.213.70.6 Internexus kali.internexus.net To connect to a Kali Server, just type: Kali <server ip#> Once connected you will see a list of other people wanting to play games. Next to each name you will see what program they are running. If you see anyone running DESCENTR, then you know that a game of registered Descent is probably already underway and you can go ahead and load Descent and join the game. If you see people running KCHAT, then you know they are wanting to chat. See the Kali Chat section below. Once we decide to play a game, we exit Kali Chat and switch to our game directory (in this case c:\games\descent) and load our games in the usual way. Using Kali Chat (Kchat) Kali Chat is an IRC-like chat program for IPX networks. It was written to help people using Kali communicate before and after playing games. It will work over a local IPX network or over a Kali Virtual SubNet. To run Kali Chat, edit kchat.cfg KCHAT.CFG: nickname = Newbie shownodes nobeep beeponarrival lines = 50 macro1 = This is my first macro! macro2 = This is my second macro! macro9 = This is my ninth macro! macro0 = This is my zeroth macro! Put your own nickname for "nickname." The "shownodes" option displays ip numbers next to everyone's nickname while chatting. It can be annoying so just remove this line if you don't want it. The "nobeep" option stops the beeping that normally occurs when you get a private message. The "beeponarrival" option will cause the PC to beep when new people arrive in Kchat. The "lines" parameter can be set to either 25 or 50. If you leave it out Kchat will use the default screen size when you run kchat (as long as it's either 25 or 50 lines). To run Kchat just type: kchat If you use Kchat without a kchat.cfg file it will require you to enter your nickname on the command line, "kchat mynickname". If you use Kchat with Kali the Kali nickname will override the Kchat nickname set in kchat.cfg. You will automatically start out on the #chat channel. To see who else is on this channel, type /who. To see everyone using Kali Chat, type /who *. To see a list if users on a specific channel, type /who #channelname. To join a channel, type /join #channelname. To exit, type /quit. To use Kali Chat with Kali. First run Kali and connect to a server; then run Kchat. After finding players for a game, exit Kali Chat and directly launch your game. No need to re-run Kali. These are the commands that you can enter while in Kali Chat: /help - display the list of commands /clear - clear screen /[25|50] - select 25 or 50 line mode /nick <nickname> - change nickname /away <message> - tell everyone that you are away from your PC /beep [on|off] - beep when getting a private message /join <#channel> - join a different channel /who [<#channel>|*] - list people using Kali Chat /whois <nickname> - get information on a registered user /msg [<nickname>|#<node>] <message> - send a private message /me <message> - posture a message /ping [<nickname>|#<node>|*] - test connection speed /ignore <nickname> - toggles the ability to ignore someone /shownodes - will display the user's ip# next to each nickname /hidenodes - will not display the ip numbers /offer <filename> - offer a file for other people to download /get <nickname> <#> <localname> - get file <#> as <localname> /progress - displays download progress (from sender) /kali - list people connected to the Kali server /motd - display message of the day from server /quit [<message>] - exit chat program Pressing alt-x will also exit Kali Chat. Pressing ctrl-l will clear the screen. When offering a file you can offer up to 10 files at a time and several people can download these files at the same time. When you "get" a file, you can name the file anything you want and put in in any directory you want. For example, if Wyvern offers the file "#0 c:\kali\kchat.exe" for downloading, you can type "/get Wyvern 0 d:\games\kali\kchat20.exe". This will take file number "0" offered by Wyvern and place it in the directory d:\games\kali\ and name the file kchat20.exe. Using Kali Without a Kali Server Kali will work without a server by having one of the PCs act as a server. In this mode Kali will only allow 4 player games (the server plus three clients). The server has a special role in this mode and the faster PC should take the honors. This PC will simply type: KALI and press enter. The other PCs will use the IP# of the host just like they would when connecting to a normal server. The kali /s listing will not include the ping, process, loss, or time columns like it does when using a normal server. Everything else should work normally. A Final Thought Killing your friends across the Internet can be VERY addictive. Have fun, but don't lose your "real" life just to play a game! (*) Hey, since I'm making up this hypothetical example scenario, I might as well go whole hog, right? ;-) Purchasing Kali So, are you tired of the 15 minute limit in the demo? Go ahead and register! The price of Kali is $20 (US dollars). When you buy Kali you will get your own personal serial number and key to unlock the full power of Kali. Play until you drop. Once you buy Kali you will be assured free upgrades when Kali is improved...even if the price goes up in the future. ----------------------------- cut here ---------------------------- Kali Registration Form Name (Please Print) _________________________________________________________________ Address _________________________________________________________________ City _______________________ State/Province _____________________ Zip/Postal Code ___________________ Country ____________________ Phone/Fax _________________________________________________________________ Email Address _________________________________________________________________ The cost for registered Kali is $20 (US currency). Make checks payable to "Jay Cotton" Checks must be in US Dollars and drawn on a US bank. Mail to: Jay Cotton PO Box 282 Franklin Springs, GA 30639-0282 ***Be sure to include an email address!!! For faster delivery and the convenience of credit cards, call Axxis at the following number (or send email to kali@axxis.com): 1-801-565-1443 (this is NOT 1-800; it is NOT a toll-free call) This same phone number can be used to FAX an order. If you don't get a human to answer the phone leave your ordering information on the voice mail system and I'll get your order processes as soon as possible. Where is it Again? To obtain Kali, log on to one of the following ftp sites (using anonymous ftp). Change to the specified directory (e.g. cd /pub/kali). Download the file kali12k.zip. This is the latest version of Kali as of this writing. ftp://ftp.kali.net/kali/ ftp://ftp.axxis.com/pub/kali/ ftp://ftp.internexus.net/pub/kali/ ftp://kali.jedi.net/kali/ The following Web sites also include information and some files: http://www.axxis.com/kali/ http://www.internexus.net/kali/ http://www.teleport.com/~caustic/ http://gremlinx.bevc.blacksburg.va.us/ Troubleshooting Hopefully this might help some people who are having trouble getting Kali to work. Just read the questions. Q: Why does Kali report, "ERROR: Cannot access packet driver"? A: You either don't have a packet driver loaded or you have another driver loaded on top of your packet driver which won't allow Kali to access it. Most packet drivers only allow one program to be loaded over them. Some packet drivers will automatically multiplex and allow you to run 2 or more TCPIP applications on top of them. Find the proper packet driver for your setup. Instructions for obtaining and installing the packet driver can be found in kali.doc. Q: Why does Kali report, "Error: no response from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"? A: Either because the ip# you are trying to attach to is not running Kali or you don't have Kali configured properly. Try all of the servers in the list above. Have you tested your connection yet? Can you ping any or all of the servers? Have you tried these steps? If not, re-read the section titled "Testing your TCPIP Setup". Q: Why can't I ping anything? A: Good question! This means you are actually trying to test your connection before using Kali! I'm so happy! Anyway, this is almost always caused by an incorrect value in wattcp.cfg. Either your netmask, gateway, or my_ip value is most likely wrong. If using a modem, are you sure you connected to your host properly? Did the host report that SLIP or PPP was started? If using PPP, did the PPP driver report your ip# (many SLIP hosts will do this too)? Are you absolutely positive that your modem is configured for hardware flow control (RTS/CTS) and not software (XON/XOFF)? For Hayes modems, this is normally done with AT&F2. For USR modems, try using AT&F1. PPP users: try using a netmask of 0.0.0.0 and put the line ppp=1 in wattcp.cfg. Using a netmask of 0.0.0.0 will make the wattcp kernel think that all nodes are in your local network. It will cause Kali and other wattcp apps to quit trying to use the gateway. Using ppp=1 with Kali will cause wattcp to quit trying to resolve ethernet addresses (which it can't do anyway...but tries). PPP and SLIP users: if using bootp, try entering your actual ip# instead. If using ethernet, are you sure you loaded the driver with the correct I/O port, interrupt, and address (if used)? Q: I can ping a server, but I can't connect with Kali. Why? A: Wow...getting close. The most common problem causing this is an incorrect modem init string. Make sure that hardware flow control and NOT software flow control is enable on the modem (see A4 above). This can also be caused by having the wrong info in wattcp.cfg. The server might be off-line. Try another server. Q: Ok, I finally connected to a server. Now my PC locks up after a few seconds. I haven't even started a game yet. Sometimes it locks up before I even run Kali. Sometimes I get the player list. What did I do wrong? A: The most common cause is not having hardware (RTS/CTS) flow control enabled (and software/XON/XOFF disabled). Check the manual for your modem and make sure your init string enables RTS/CTS and disables XON/XOFF. The second most common reason for PPP users is the omission of the ppp=1 line in wattcp.cfg. Also try using a netmask of 0.0.0.0 (PPP only). If using ppp, your provider might be using Link Quality Monitoring. If you cannot disable this option, you will not be able to use Merit's etherppp driver. Get a copy of pppshare.zip from one of the sites listed above for Kali and try this driver instead (get lsl.zip while you are there). Q: I can connect to a server, and I can even start playing a game. Now my PC locks up after a few seconds of playing. What now? A: Check the answer to Q7 above and if using ppp, be sure you have the line "ppp=1" in wattcp.cfg. Q: Why do I see myself listed twice in the kali /s list? A: This is almost always a SLiRP problem. If the ip number for both entries is the same, and the port number is different, then the redirection command in .slirprc failed (or you used the wrong command). If the ip number for both entries is different, then you are using the wrong ip number in wattcp.cfg and probably the wrong ip# in the redirection commands. The second number you see is the correct ip#. Use this number in .slirprc and in wattcp.cfg. Q: Why do I see myself listed more than 2 times in the kali /s list? A: You are using a SLIP emulator that is not compatable with Kali. The only SLIP emulator that works with Kali is SLiRP. TIA will NOT work. Q: How can I get more conventional memory? A: Use a memory manager such as DOS's emm386 or QEMM. Load DOS high and load Kali high (lh Kali). You should be able to get Kali into an upper memory block on most systems. Read your DOS manual or type "help emm386" at the DOS prompt. If use have a CDROM, try to avoid loading all of its drivers. Using DOS 6.0 and above you can create multiple configurations in your config.sys. Again, read the DOCS. Most games that use their own memory menager (like Doom and Descent) will still work when used with emm386 or qemm. They also still need at least some minimal conventional memory. Both Doom and Descent will have fits if the conventional memory is below 350K (approx). If using Merit's etherppp (ppp.zip) you might concider trying pppshare instead. It uses 20-30K less memory. Q: This stupid document didn't help. What do I do now? A: If this list doesn't answer your question, please send your question to: help@kali.net ***NOTE*** You must include the following information for me to be able to help. Without this information, I won't answer most questions. 1. What version of Kali are you using? 2. Connection type: {PPP, SLIP, SLiRP, ethernet} 3. Packet driver: {etherppp, slipper, cslipper, wd8003e, 3c509, etc.} 4. If using modem, what brand/model of modem and speed? 5. If using modem, what init string are you using? 6. Command line used to start packet driver. 7. Script used when connecting to host (or at least outline the prompts) 8. A copy of wattcp.cfg. 9. A copy of kali.cfg. 10. A copy of .slirprc if using SLiRP 11. A description of the problem and what steps you have taken to try to resolve the problem. I want to know at what point in the instructions in kali.doc you can't get past. If you send me email stating that you cannot connect to Kali Central and don't tell me that you can ping it successfully, I will just send you a copy of this message. Please try to read the instructions first. Kali Thanks! I would like to thank all of the people who have made contributions to Kali. Without these people you probably wouldn't be playing internet games at all. A special thanks goes to my wife Eleanor and daughter Jennifer. I thank my wife for her patience, for allowing me those long hours in my office pecking away at the computer, for being my attorney, for being a friend and listening to all my problems, and for supporting me 100%. I thank my daughter Jennifer for being herself. She's just great! :) The following people and/or companies have contributed in one way or another. They are listed in chronological order of contribution. I may have made a mistake in the ordering of one or two but hopefully I didn't leave anyone out. If I did, *please* let me know and I will correct it. id Software - for writing Doom and providing the source code for ipxsetup. This is what got me into multiplayer gaming! Jake Page (snake) - the author of tcpsetup. tcpsetup was the first program to allow internet Doom. Erick Engelke - the author of Waterloo TCP (wattcp). Wattcp is used in both iFrag and Kali. Scott Coleman (Khan) - the author of iFrag and the original IPX code in Kali. My mentor, friend, and adversary (Doom) for a long time. Parallax - for writing Descent...the program that inspired Kali. I guess Interplay gets some credit here too. :) Frank Fejes (Warp2) & PooterMan (I still don't know his name!) - for registering the first two copies of Kali! Danny Gasparovski - the author of SLiRP. He made several changes to his program at my request. Without his efforts shell users would be stuck with MILK ;-) Patrick Klos - one of the authors of pppshare (along with his brother). At my request they developed pppshare just for Kali users. Jonathon Roy (roy7) - for porting the kali code to unix to make the first Kali server. For providing consulting on further unix programming. Edward Henigin (Texas Net) - for running the first Kali server and the iFrag Tracker. Pramod Gumpeni (ZenMaster) - the author of the Kali Game FAQ and a beta tester. My number one fan! Also ran Zen's Temple. Chung Lau (waver) - author of the netcom shell kit. Available at most Kali ftp sites. Ethan Winkley - author of the PPP FAQ. Byron Followell - author of the Netcruiser FAQ. Derek Bumpas - author of snatch. Lawrence Reiss - author of the Compuserve FAQ. loopy - for cracking every version of Kali before anyone else and letting me know just how bad my security was ;-) Axxis Corporation - Mark Leslie, Mike Fine, Mike Maxwell, Suzie Peterson, Marsha Maxwell - for handling credit card orders, running a server, and official Web site. Westwood Studios - for writing Command & Conquer and supplying me with a whole new set of customers :) And all the other people who have ftp sites, web sites, kali servers, etc. Thanks for everyone who has helped test dozens of version of Kali. Thanks for everyone who has registered and allowed me to continue to improve Kali. There are so many people who have contributed ideas that it would takes pages to list them all. Thanks! Despite all their efforts.... ;-) Kali and the kalid server are (c) Copyright 1995 by Jay Cotton. All Rights Reserved. Thanks! jay (jay@kali.net)