🚀 go-pugleaf

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 (I have found no way of setting "follow-up:", sorry.)



I have a rather naïve question... (I think ;-)

Please, make/give me some suggestions/ideas that (may) be usable for this...


I'd like to be able to do the following connection:

    *) Sun Solaris LAN - 10BaseT

           <-->

    *) 386 PC, 1M RAM, 2x20MB XT HD, 10BaseT/ISA, 1S(15550) 1P/EPP? port.
       1x5.25" 360K & 1x3.5" 720K disk-drives.

           <--=PPP/SLIP/CSLIP @ 115.2K+ *or* PLIP =-->

    *) Amiga 1200 (see below),
       capable of AT LEAST 115.2K serial comm.
                  40-50K(+?)/sec parallell comm.

 Cause:
  The pricetag on a PCMCIA ethernet card for the Amiga is $300+, 8-|
  (~10x the cost of a usable card for a PC :-( )

 As I am no wealthy person I'd like to keep this on as low a budget as
 possible.  Also considering that the sole thing I want the PC to be
 is "a connection to the net".

 I have access to 8-BIT PLIP and a bunch of PPP/[C]SLIP drivers for my
 Amiga.

 I believe myself of beeing *a bit* of a "hacker" (x86/68K Asm, C, C++...).
 But I have very little knowledge about TCP/IP, especially when using
 PC's, and the availability of software for this kind of solution.

 Linux seems to be out of the question as docs states that it requires 2-4M
 RAM to start with - and also; I'd have to buy an 1.44M (3.5") drive to be
 able to use the "Slackware" installation f.ex.

"Thank you's" for any response, in advance...


/Hannu E.K. Nevalainen, Amiga since '85.  # 1996-02-22 @15:19 CET #
>> Inform yourself... http://www.amiga.de/
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