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Re: Port of mknbi-dos to MSDOS 32-bits now available



Hello,

Mike Hammer <mike-hammer@usa.net> wrote:
> Thanks for the information.  Would it be difficult to preserve the
> UDP/IP stack in memory even after DOS image has been loaded and
> started?  Even after preservation of the stack, would there even
> be some kind of application interface available to DOS programs
> to access the stack services (maybe through software interrupt)?

At present, there is no chance of keeping the IP stack in memory. The
next version of netboot will offer such a feature (the 0.9 preview
release doesn't have it either). But it will still take some time for
this new version, as it's not easy to implement. In the meantime, just
run a new packet driver in the loaded DOS image, and use one of the
freely available full TCP/IP stacks for DOS.

gero.

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