Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 09:32:55 -0500 (EST) From: "Michael C. Newell" <mnewell@lupine.nsi.nasa.gov> To: Don Yuniskis <dgy@seagull.rtd.com> Cc: FreeBSD hackers <freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com> Subject: Re: DOS ppp/slip packages Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950223092645.18462G-100000@lupine.nsi.nasa.gov> In-Reply-To: <199502212022.NAA05971@seagull.rtd.com>
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On Tue, 21 Feb 1995, Don Yuniskis wrote:
> I'd like to setup my FreeBSD box to cater to some DOS users.
> Are there any freely-available packages which would allow them to run
> ppp/slip into FreeBSD host? What's this "Trumpet" package?
Trumpet is a shareware TCP/IP package for Windoze that supports SLIP and
provides a Winsock (actually, when we tested it it was the ONLY package
that completely supported all Winsock features!) API. It won't help you
with MS-DOG users, but if you're using Windoze it's easy to install and
we've found it to be pretty solid.
We've also used Chameleon, SuperTCP, and LAN Workplace for DOS; all of
them work with various features (I use SuperTCP's NFS at home) but they
are really messy to set up and manage [with SuperTCP every time I want to
install a new interface I basically have to re-install the entire package;
it keeps losing track of configuration files... ;{(] There are lots of
other packages out there too, but these are the ones I've experienced.
On the MS-DOG only side things are a bit thinner since there's no
"standard" API for TCP/IP under MS-DOG. However, we've had some success
with Minuet (shareware) and I've also used PC/TCP (commercial). SuperTCP
also allows some TCP/IP functionality under MS-DOG (I use the NFS
capability); I'm sure some of the other packages have like functionality.
Hope this helps,
Mike
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