From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 23 06:34:39 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id GAA02808 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 06:34:39 -0800 Received: from lupine.nsi.nasa.gov (lupine.nsi.nasa.gov [198.116.2.100]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA02802 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 06:34:38 -0800 Received: (from mnewell@localhost) by lupine.nsi.nasa.gov (8.6.9/8.6.9) id JAA18593; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 09:33:00 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 09:32:55 -0500 (EST) From: "Michael C. Newell" To: Don Yuniskis cc: FreeBSD hackers Subject: Re: DOS ppp/slip packages In-Reply-To: <199502212022.NAA05971@seagull.rtd.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ |Mike Newell | The opinions expressed herein are | |NASA Science Internet Network Systems | my own, and do not necessarily | |Sterling Software, Inc. | reflect those of the NSI program, | |MNewell@nsipo.nasa.gov | Sterling Software, NASA, or anyone | |+1-202-434-8954 | else. | +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+