TCP IP on DOS

[irishmike]

Hello all:

I have beating my head to find a TCP/IP stack for DOS (other than WATTCP).

I learned there was a Trumpet DOS TCP/IP stack and I found links to it (which don't work), but really what I am trying to do is update my machine to have FTP (server) cability and Telenet server capability for some older BBS software. It seems that my MajorBBS has this built in, but I decided that eventually I want to run this machine under Desqview and that being said, there are issues since Major already has Pharlap built into it.

All of the solutions I have seen are for Windows and this nullifies the whole project for me as the point is to do it all from DOS (not Windows at all). If I could find a good stack someplace (or figure out how the Wattcp actually is supposed to work) then there is still need of the server software for DOS.

Anyhow, if I can get some kind of FTP functioning on my DOS machine, at least then I can transfer files Right now it is kind of sneakernet,but the interesting part is my ol' box's CD-ROM reads factory made CDs but can't seem to read the ones I burn from my modern box.

I would love to find one of those very nice Panasonic CD-ROMs that used to be so prolific (24x or better)in IDE. I suppose I could put a modern burner in the box,though that to me seems kind of pointless. The CD-ROM in the box currently is an old Mitsumi.

Anyhow, if anyone has an old copy of trumpet dos TCP they would be willing to zip up and send,please PM me.

Thanks,

Mike

 

[mbbrutman]

Try here for some of the pieces of Trumpet:

ftp://ftp.tsoft.net/pub/tsoft/trumpet-abi/

WATTCP is just a TCP/IP stack. You need to compile it with your application in order to make use of it. So you never just get WATTCP - you get an FTP server or a Telnet client built on WATTCP. Think of WATTCP as library code.

Trumpet provides a generic TCP/IP stack that any application can use. Multiple applications on the same machine can share it as well. It's packaged as a TSR that is accessed via a software interrupt.

I'm not sure how you are going to add FTP capability to an existing BBS using either of these two. You will be able to get FTP on the machine, but how do you plan to make the BBS software aware of it?

Also keep in mind that running under Desqview might be problematic if you intend to run two separate apps. The problem is the packet driver ... the apps have to be capable of sharing a single packet driver. (You could always use two separate cards to get around this.)

 

[irishmike]

@mbbrutman

Thanks! I appreciate the links.