You do lose the NetWare connection after a time when using ipx + dosemu, due to the infamous watchdog packets that the NetWare server sends periodically and that the client (I am using VLM) under dosemu fails to detect and answer to. I have tried DRDOS 7 and freedos to no avail. This problem doesn't occur when using a program such as Paradox that keeps contacting the server in the background, therefore telling the server that the connection is alive. If you are connecting to a NetWare server, the period after which the watchdogs are sent can be configured to your convenience (I guess that 1 hour or more would permit regular work). If you are connecting to a mars-nwe server life gets tougher. You can set the frequency of the watchdogs in section 310 of the nwserv.conf mars config file, but somehow it doesn't work as expected. You can set it to -1 to choose no watchdogs at all, but you risk to get overwhelmed with dead connections. I am currently testing a couple of shell scripts run by cron to help mars get rid of dead connections, but for some reason they don't quite work. Yet. :o)
-- Enrique Baraibar On Thu, 6 May 2004 16:02:04 +0200 (CEST) Nicolai Kuntze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I need help configuring ipx and dosemu to work together. At the moment I > am using dosemu 1.2.1 and DOS 3.3. After some time just stops working. I > belive a breakdown of my ipx connection is the reason. Has someone ( > Bart? ) some suggestions which DOS-Version etc. I should use? It is very > importent for me getting this to work stable ... > > Yours, > > Nicolai > > > ---- > Diese Nachricht wurde auf Viren und andere gefaehrliche Inhalte sowie > Spam untersucht. > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" > in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
