mTCP questions

[Howard]

Hello,

I was using a novell stack on a 486dx2, server died and I am trying to switch over to TCP/IP.  Installed the Microsoft software, but it consumes so much memory that my program won't run.  I've got 8 megs of ram on this PC

I am looking into small TCP/IP solutions, and hoping I came to the right place!

1) Looking to use DHCP

2) need to log on to a network drive

3) Hoping mTCP can take advantage of extended memory?

4) The program uses lots of Lprints (from QuickBasic to the LPT1: port, we are printing to an old printer that is on the network.  I can print to it using "net use LPT1: \\myserver\", etc.  Does mTCP support this functionality?

Thanks!

Howard

[Michael Brutman]

I'm going to limit my answers to mTCP.  Others here may have better solutions for you.

1. DHCP works.  Load a packet driver, configure mTCP, then run DHCP.  See the PDF documentation for the details.
2. mTCP is Unix-style networking.  It has an FTP client and an FTP server for transferring files.  It does not support Microsoft style network drives.
3. mTCP doesn't take advantage of extended memory because it doesn't need to.  Everything runs on a 512K system, and most programs run with far less.
4. mTCP doesn't support Microsoft style shared drives and network printing.  As a work-around you can print to a file, and then send that file directly to a compatible printer with the Netcat program.  (If your printer listens on network port 9100 it's probably a compatible printer.)

Why not just replace the machine with another comparable machine and keep using the same software setup that you have?  If you need to get running quickly that is the way to do it.  If you are doing a longer term migration then there are many more options.

-Mike