[ale] Comments on TCP/IP & Win95

[Andrew Newton]

Carl Sherrill wrote:
> 
> Yo gentlemen! - be cool!  

That's what Linux is all about.

> ........  therefore, I stand by
> my question ...."Has anyone successfully configured Win95 (& modem) to
> connect via telnet & TCP/IP into another LAN based Win95 machine?  The Win95
> technical reference books allude to such a possibility, but to date I've not
> been able to get it to work. Any ideas are appreciated.  Carl Sherrill,
> carlsh at rmii.com"

I've asked a few people in my office about this and they say it is possible
to get Win95 to answer the phone and make a TCP/IP connection of some sort.
They did mention it would be a dead-end connection because Win95 does not
route TCP/IP, you need WinNT for that.  Apparently this all setup in the Dial-up
adapter (go figure!).  And if you've gotten this far, great!

I believe your problem will be the telnet part.  Neither Win95 or WinNT come
with a telnetd equivalent, so there is nothing there to answer your telnet
requests.  You might could find a shareware one, or you could get an OS that
has that... say like Linux.

> If TCP/IP is "native" to Linux & if Linux is
> set-up to provide "local area networking" (say in lieu of big bad Novel)
> then, to me, the relevance & applicability to cross-platform networking is
> very relevant to the propigation of Linux!  

By this measure, I should be able to reverse the logic flow and be able to
call Microsoft Tech Support about my Linux questions.  Sorry, this doesn't wash.

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