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First post, by A Guest

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Is it possible to connect Win 3.11 with Internet already?

If not I see 3 solutions:

1. Using Trumpet Winsock over the softmodem. Therefor you need a PPPD Server running and listening on an TCP Port. But it guess thats pretty much messing with config files. I think its possible, but dirty solution.

2. Writing a 16bit Winsock DLL for Win 3.11 which passes all calls to a patched dosbox which calls the real socket functions on the host OS. I guess this would be pretty easy for a dosbox programmer.

3. Writing NE2000 hardware support.

Reply 2 of 7, by `Moe`

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1 should work - trumpet winsock seems to wirk fine. I didn't ever actually use it, but it loads fine and says drivers are vcorrectly initialized.

Reply 5 of 7, by `Moe`

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Sure, linux is best suited for that kind of thing. On Windows ($version>ME) Professional (not Home/Workstation) RAS and VPN stuff could probably made to work, too.

Reply 7 of 7, by `Moe`

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Well, that's what I meant: without modifying DOSBox. It just takes an experimenting soul to find out how. If all else fails, some freeware VPN/dialin server software for windows may also help.