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any networking for Windows 3.11?

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First post, by A Guest

Posted on 2006-01-23, 22:14

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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 1 of 7, by h-a-l-9000

Posted on 2006-01-23, 22:46

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3 already exists

1+1=10

Reply 2 of 7, by `Moe`

Posted on 2006-01-23, 23:59

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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 3 of 7, by h-a-l-9000

Posted on 2006-01-24, 00:14

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Hmm but what to connect to.

1+1=10

Reply 4 of 7, by h-a-l-9000

Posted on 2006-01-24, 03:09

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Oh there is something called VPPP - but its Linux 😉

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Reply 5 of 7, by `Moe`

Posted on 2006-01-24, 13:28

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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 6 of 7, by Qbix

Posted on 2006-01-24, 14:48

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although I don't have any desire to add specific code inside dosbox for that.

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Reply 7 of 7, by `Moe`

Posted on 2006-01-25, 06:47

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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.

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