hello, I reinstalled freedos to get a fresh start.
I just now have been fooling around with ntool and mTCP. just now I got dhcp under mTCP to work. but now it isn't working. I can't get ntool to work either? when I run dhcp through mTCP I get an error: failure to get dhcp address. check your cabling and packet driver settings. I have tcp.cfg, edited and I have the packet driver that I need. and the packet driver is loaded via autoexec.bat. and I just got dhcp to work. when I run ntool I get bootp/dhcp failed. like I said I reinstalled freedos, one reason I did reinstall was to try to figure anything about wattcp.cfg. as far as I know I have wattcp.cfg in c:\fdos\bin\wattcp.cfg I edited wattcp.cfg to just have the line my_ip=dhcp when I run ntool and it fails, I then look at wattcp.cfg and it is empty? like the my_ip=dhcp is gone. mtcp's dhcp doesn't do this. I just renamed wattcp.cfg to wattold.cfg and ran ntool again it ran without any error and wrote nothing to the screen. this makes me think that these programs are like you said getting a fixed ip somewhere. but I am not sure. like I said I reinstalled freedos. any help would be appreciated Sent from my iPhone On Mar 17, 2011, at 6:20 PM, "Willi Wasser" <wiw...@web.de> wrote: >> i just tried to run ntool and i got back an ip address of: >> MY_IP=0.0.0.0 > > NTOOL is a WATTCP application itself, one that is linked to a relatively > recent version of the WATTCP library that does support dhcp properly. That > means, it will try to get its ip parameters from dhcp if the WATTCP.CFG file > it finds at program start tells it to do so by specifying "MY_IP=DHCP" or if > it doesn't find a WATTCP.CFG file at all. In this case it will write > something like "Configuring through BOOTP/DHCP" to the screen. > > If on the other hand it finds a WATTCP.CFG file that defines a static ip > address, then it will simply accept this setting, assuming that you know what > you are doing. Nevertheless NTOOL -g " " will output the actual ip parameters > that are in effect in this moment. > > So if NTOOL just tells you "MY_IP=0.0.0.0" without any message about using > dhcp, then you probably have a WATTCP.CFG file somwhere which defined that > address. Probably you just copied that file from somewhere and failed to > adjust it to your personal needs. Try to find that file and make it > "invisible" to the program, by re-naming it or by deleting it completely. > > If that helps, you could even try whether you need NTOOL (or any other > external dhcp client) at all. Perhaps lynx just has the very same problem? If > the lynx version you use, is also linked to a more recent version of WATTCP, > then it could do this all by itself. It not, you could still use NTOOL. > > ___________________________________________________________ > Empfehlen Sie WEB.DE DSL Ihren Freunden und Bekannten und wir > belohnen Sie mit bis zu 100,- Euro! https://freundschaftswerbung.web.de > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Colocation vs. Managed Hosting > A question and answer guide to determining the best fit > for your organization - today and in the future. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
