Sean Roe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I was woundering if anybody has any experience making a strictly DOS
> workstation work in a Masq network.
There's nothing special about what OS is running; if it can talk TCP/IP,
it can work with masq. :)
> I have an old 386 at home that my kids use. They want to use the
> Arachne web browser but it uses something called odipkt and lsl (I
> think its the same lsl the Novell uses).
>From what I can remember about packet drivers and LSL, neither one of
them implements a TCP/IP stack. From what I recall, the LSL is merely a
way to put Netware packets through the same packet driver as IP packets,
and it may not even be needed in your particular case.
I used a package called NCSA Telnet, which was a DOS program that
implemented a full-fledged TCP/IP stack, inside the program itself. It
only used the packet driver to send ethernet frames (which is what a
packet driver does, anyway). But, the major things that need to be
configured, such as IP address, gateway, DNS, etc., were all configured
within the top-level DOS program (in my case NCSA Telnet).
> I start the browser,and it sees the odipkt driver, but it can never
> find any websites.
What browser? Does it do the same sort of IP configuration as my old
Telnet program did? You will need to configure it. And probably you'll
want to test it on your local LAN before you try to go all the way to
the Internet.
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