Re: A good file transfer software for Windows 9X and Windows 7 ?

Posted on 2017-07-04, 17:57

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by mbbrutman

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So how fast is the direct cable connection? I'm willing to be that any Ethernet setup is going to be far faster. The second key advantage to FTP is that you can use it across the room or across the entire planet. IP gives you routing. Direct cable connections do not. When I want to copy files …

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Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ and DOS (mTCP/DHCP)

Posted on 2017-06-18, 04:10

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by mbbrutman

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Get ping working first. If ping doesn't work then IRCjr sure won't work either. Your card is not showing packets to the packet driver. That's a cabling or IRQ problem.

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Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ and DOS (mTCP/DHCP)

Posted on 2017-06-18, 02:41

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by mbbrutman

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Debugging instructions and how to use static addressing are in the mTCP PDF documentation. The I/O address must be correct because you are getting a reasonable looking MAC address. I'm not sure how PCI IRQs work, but 0xFF is suspicious, especially for a DOS value. If that value is wrong you will be …

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Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ and DOS (mTCP/DHCP)

Posted on 2017-06-18, 01:11

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by mbbrutman

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If you go back to DOS mTCP will let you set static IP addresses .. DHCP is not required. Just pick something on your network that you know isn't in use ... you generally have 200+ addresses to choose from. As for getting the right packet driver settings ... you either set the card up using software …

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Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ and DOS (mTCP/DHCP)

Posted on 2017-06-17, 02:10

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by mbbrutman

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Never start by trying to ping google.com right away. Or any other hostname. That all assumes that your DNS is working. yes, but connection without dns resolving useless anyway... :D I don't understand that reasoning at all. If you can't ping your own gateway, there is no point in trying to ping …

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Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ and DOS (mTCP/DHCP)

Posted on 2017-06-15, 16:02

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by mbbrutman

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OP ... have you read the mTCP PDF documentation? It has a fairly decent section on getting hardware running and debugging problems. See http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/ for the most current version of mTCP and a link to the PDF documentation.

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Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ and DOS (mTCP/DHCP)

Posted on 2017-06-15, 16:00

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by mbbrutman

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"The IO or IRQ settings set up by the system are illegal. Check your CMOS settings or contact your vendor." ... Not even sure that will work. use drivers for ordinal Reatek. e.g., find some contains rtlpkt, and also wattcp 16 bit package (not 32 bit!). there must be ping.exe utility (dos exe, not …

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Re: EtherDFS - a network drive for DOS

Posted on 2017-02-12, 18:47

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by mbbrutman

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Just realized you are actually the developer of mTCP :-) Nice of you to reply here! I am using the latest version of mTCP (2015-07-05). It seems that whenever there's an incoming packet, my computer freezes. Also, all outgoing packets are only counting towards the "Sending errors" (when I use PING. …

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Re: EtherDFS - a network drive for DOS

Posted on 2017-02-09, 06:29

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by mbbrutman

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I would not hold your breath hoping that this is an mTCP only problem. mTCP works on just about everything. Are you using the latest version? Have you tried listening for packets using PKTTOOL? If you are not seeing incoming packets you have a cabling problem or the IRQ is wrong on your packet …

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Re: Old Time's Sake BBS

Posted on 2017-01-28, 17:50

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by mbbrutman

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I see you are using mTCP Telnet ... I get an occasional report on incompatibilities with some Telnet servers, especially BBSes. I've got a few fixes in but if there are more problems out there I'd like to nail them down. Have you noticed any weirdness when using mTCP Telnet? Any screen rendering …

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Re: Mythbusting: irreconcilable VESA cards (3 VESA cards in a high-speed 486 system)

Posted on 2016-08-20, 17:09

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by mbbrutman

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Jolaes76, You've clearly busted the myth .. my VLB setup had just two slots used. I didn't even bother trying to use the third slot given all of the stories at the time. Back then I was running an ATI Graphics Ultra Pro with 2MB of VRAM and a Buslogic BT-445S SCSI controller. The machine ran OS/2. I …

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Re: Mythbusting: irreconcilable VESA cards (3 VESA cards in a high-speed 486 system)

Posted on 2016-08-18, 03:24

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by mbbrutman

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I think your card is actually faster than those numbers indicate; the bottleneck is probably the PS/1 on the other side. Just for comparison purposes I have these measurements: Clone 80386-40, ISA bus Davicom card, 32MB transfer: 690KB/sec sending, 957KB/sec receiving Compaq Deskpro 433i with a 3Com …

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Re: Mythbusting: irreconcilable VESA cards (3 VESA cards in a high-speed 486 system)

Posted on 2016-08-17, 04:19

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by mbbrutman

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On your Ethernet speed test ... how was that measured? (Is that a raw TCP/IP sockets performance number reported by the mTCP speed test program or is that an FTP number? If it is FTP is that reading or writing?)

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Re: How to make a MFM HDD image?

Posted on 2016-07-23, 18:34

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by mbbrutman

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I don't think the floppy disks are an issue. All of the code that you would need would fit on a 160KB diskette. You just need to be able to boot DOS, load a packet driver, possibly run DHCP, and then run the file transfer program. The Xircom PE3-10BT connects to almost any parallel port and to …

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Re: How to make a MFM HDD image?

Posted on 2016-07-23, 16:42

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by mbbrutman

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I have a version of the mTCP Netcat program that will basically let you stream the contents of a hard drive from a vintage machine to another machine on the network. It's basically the same thing that Ghost would do over a network - imaging the entire drive sector by sector. With something like a …

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Re: The PCjr

Posted on 2016-05-31, 04:07

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by mbbrutman

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carlostex wrote: Awesome! Most amazing PCjr i have ever seen. Actually, they get much better. A PCjr with an expansion chassis is pretty cool. With a 2nd and 3rd expansion chassis or a string of 8 sidecars they get borderline ridiculous. 😊

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The PCjr

Posted on 2016-05-30, 04:50

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by mbbrutman

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PCjr_rig_small.jpg System specifications: NEC V20 CPU running at 4.77Mhz 736KB RAM (64KB on the motherboard, 64KB on an internal card, and the rest on the jrIDE sidecar) QumeTrak 142 5.25 double density floppy drive Bootable IDE interface (jrIDE sidecar) 20GB Maxtor IDE hard drive (up to 8GB usable …

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Re: Which FTP server do you use?

Posted on 2016-05-06, 00:48

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by mbbrutman

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i have noticed on mine, mtcp ftp to my server, when i pull down a file, the bigger it is, ie: > 1 or 2mb, there is a huge huge chance of the transfer hanging and not completing, which is strange. sometimes I can pull down 50mb zips, other times anything over a couple of mb hangs A lot of servers …

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Re: MSDOS 6 Networking.

Posted on 2016-04-29, 15:57

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by mbbrutman

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I prefer to look at things like mTCP as more of a throwback to the Unix style of networking - classic Telnet, FTP, and utilities. Early networking for PCs was centered around file and printer sharing. It assumes that all of the machines are the same; you get to reach into remote filesystems directly …

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Re: Goliath 486 tower recovered from the dump

Posted on 2016-04-12, 04:10

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by mbbrutman

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Any particular reason why your house has multiple subnets? If there are multiple routers involved there are some solutions. One is to add a route that will let one subnet send packets to the other subnet. (By default 192.168.x.x addresses are private and non-routable.) The other is to get the …

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