Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 14:14:46 -0600 (CST) From: Dave Bodenstab <imdave@mcs.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: newbie network question Message-ID: <199712172014.OAA18215@base486.home.org>
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Having just installed a couple of ne2000 cards and *easily* gotten Freebsd 2.0.5 and 2.2.5 talking to each other, I'm now wondering about dos/windows/doom. I'm a complete newbie about networks, so these are undoubtedly really dumb questions... The diskette that came with the ne2000 cards contains (among other things): /ndis/banyan.txt /ndis/ibmlan.txt /ndis/lansrv.txt /ndis/pathway.txt /ndis/pathwork.txt /ndis/msclient.txt /ndis/readme.txt /ndis/dos/* /netware/dosodi.txt /netware/client32.txt /netware/nw312.txt /netware/nw4xx.txt /netware/nwlite.txt /netware/readme.txt /netware/prsnlnw.txt /netware/client/odi.dos /netware/client/odi.dos/sn2000.com /netware/client/odi.dos/net.cfg /netware/client/odi.dos/sn2000.ins /netware/client32/doswin /netware/client32/doswin/sn2000.lan /netware/client32/doswin/sn2000.ldi /netware/server/nw312 /netware/server/nw312/ethertsm.nlm /netware/server/nw312/msm.nlm /netware/server/nw312/nbi31x.nlm /netware/server/nw312/sn2000.lan /netware/server/nw4x /netware/server/nw4x/sn2000.lan /netware/server/nw4x/sn2000.ldi /netware/server/nw4x/msm.nlm /netware/server/nw4x/ethertsm.nlm /netware/server/nw4x/nbi.nlm /pktdrv/sn2000.com /pktdrv/sn2000.sys /pktdrv/dpdipx.com /pktdrv/pdnfs.sys /pktdrv/eth.sys /pktdrv/pctcp.txt /pktdrv/readme.txt /pktdrv/pdipx.txt /pktdrv/ncsa.txt /pktdrv/winsock.txt And the readme's just mention ODI, NDIS, etc. What are these things? Are there dos drivers provided that do the equivalent of interlnk.exe? Is the stuff on the floppy just the low level stuff, and would I need to buy specific network software for dos? novell? workgroup for windows 3.1? etc? The pktdrv/* stuff looks the most promising. The .txt files there mention winsock, ncsa, pc/tcp, etc. and seem to imply that at least some of this stuff might be available over the internet. I'm really groping here... I'm curious as to just what the stuff on the diskette would be used for, and whether I can get the network stuff working with dos/windows. Can I get my two machines to talk using dos? using windows? using something else? If so, could someone point me to a source of info so I could learn about this stuff? Also, what's the IPX stuff that doom supports? What might I need to get doom to use the network? The pktdrv/pdipx.txt mentions a ``netx'' program -- what's that? where does it come from? Thanks for your patience. Dave Bodenstab imdave@mcs.net
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