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IPX Tunneling Drivers/Program for real DOS PC

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First post, by RetroWolf92

Posted on 2025-12-23, 22:32

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I got an old Dell Dimension L566CX from my grandma a while back. I got it installed with FreeDOS and have been using it as a retro-gaming PC and sometimes text work environment.

I know it's possible to have an old PC communicate with new networks and even crossplay with people running DOSBox, but I don't know how.
I've also read that IPX networking is supposed to require an IPX network card, but I'm wondering if somewhere out there exists a program or drivers to funnel IPX networking through the PC's inbuilt ethernet port.

Reply 1 of 2, by DaveDDS

Posted on 2025-12-24, 12:36

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For an simple, low-overhead (nothing has to be installed) method of transferring files between or to/from DOS systems over network, serial or parallel:

DDLINK: Easily move files between/To/From DOS systems

- Dave ; https://dunfield.themindfactory.com ; "Daves Old Computers" ; SW dev addict best known:
ImageDisk: rd/wr ANY floppy PChardware can ; Micro-C: compiler for DOS+ManySmallCPU ; DDLINK: simple/small FileTrans(w/o netSW)via Lan/Lpt/Serial

Reply 2 of 2, by st31276a

Posted on 2025-12-24, 16:20

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IPX is a network layer protocol, which is network card (MAC layer) agnostic.

You can run TCP/IP on that thing as well, to connect more easily to whatever else for whatever purpose.

Check out mtcp.

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