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[Note cross-post]

There have been recent articles reminding one that it is possible to use
a "packet driver interface" with KA9Q, and hence communicate over, say, a
LAN.  AIUI, some people use a separate program to dial-up and provide PPP
connectivity, in order to use other programs such as DOS-Lynx, and use a
packet driver within KA9Q so that it too can communicate over that link.

I would like to experiment at least with using KA9Q in this fashion, but
with the slight variation that my "dialer" would be a full-blown TCP/IP
stack (which presumably must have some relatively standardized API
mechanism).  I'd either be using KA9Q/2 under OS/2 Warp V4 (using Warp's
TCP/IP V4.0) or even, just for the hell of it, the standard DOS version
of KA9Q above the TCP/IP stack which Warp provides in each and every
DOS-box.

Has anyone ever tried anything like this?  Is it a matter of finding the
"right" packet driver (and then, presumably, specifying "encapsulation
none" when "attach"ing the "device")?  I ask mainly because the
description (in DISview) of attaching a packet driver gave me the
impression that it's solely for use with an Ethernet card.

I remember some few years ago (when I was running OS/2 V2.1, which did
not come with a built-in TCP/IP stack) experimenting with some packet
driver and an ODI shim (IIRC).  With this, I was able to dial-up, and
then allow the shim (which came FOC from a NetWare "taster") to permit
use of MS-DOS Kermit as a telnet client.  The various TSRs were loaded as
the DOS-box was created, and it all worked, but I never tried plonking
KA9Q on top of the crumbling edifice as well!

My interest is because I'm finding cFos/2 unstable (I'm using cFos to
emulate a COM port for KA9Q/2 to use and thus make connection over my
ISDN line); on some connections, things never progress after the
equivalent of the "CONNECT" point: in particular, KA9Q's pop-up window
for the PPP/PAP phase doesn't appear, the thread ceases to receive any
events from the O/S, and I have to resort to rebooting --- something of a
rarity with OS/2 :-(

-- 
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                         bhk@dsl.co.uk
      "You're one of the very rare few who can argue ad hominem, ad absurdum
       and ad nauseam simultaneously...worse still it looks like you want to
       carry on ad infinitum..."               WPSM on alt.config 1998/06/27