🚀 go-pugleaf

On 22 Feb 1996, Hannu Nevalainen wrote:

> 
> 
> PLEASE NOTE:
> 
>  This is a CROSSPOST to _five_ groups!
>  (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:
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>     *) 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/
> <sb> /MAIL-TAG/
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> 
> 
	I've been playing with cutcp on my dos machine.  At this point I 
have it connecting to my local network but not to the world.  I think 
this is the type of thing you are looking for.  I think I ftp'd it from 
warum.uni-mannheim.de  hopefully this does what you want.
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