[ale] Win95 and linux network

[Michael B. Nelson]

Howdy all,
According to the Win95 Resource book, Win95 can act as a dial-up PPP server that
will act as a TCP/IP gateway, but it will not do so for SLIP connections. The
catch is, the Dial-up Server stuff is on the Plus Pack, which I don't have, and
also the Resource Book says "Windows 95 must have special Registry settings to
act as an IP router." It has no mention of what those settings may be.

I know nothing about SLIRP, and am too lazy too find out, but I guess it's an
IP emulator over a slip connection; so WIN95 is not going to do this for you. 
I wonder if anyone with a kernel series near yours would recompile a kernel
for you if you posted your general config. If you're near 2.0.29 or 2.1.41,
I'll compile one and email it to you (not the ale list) once, maybe twice.


FWIW, I have Linux & WIN95 on the same machine, a 486/33 8Meg. Netscape PPP 
through Linux with X up was not as much fun as you'd think;it had a tendency
for TCP/ip to stall and d (ifconfig) until I upped to 2.1.39 with all the
corresponding libs and new NET-tools. I'M surprised how well it runs at 28.8 con
nection and 38400 port speed considering I have a 16450 serial I/O chip.
Now, Win95, it runs at that speed, but as they said at the Iran/Contra
scandal, "mistakes were made".I doubt having Win95 in front would help you.
You might try swapping the disk drives between the machines (and even out
the memory say 12/16 instead of 8/20) to see if there is a performance 
problem with the dx25.
 




On 02-Jun-97 The Wayward Mage wrote:
>>On Fri, 30 May 1997, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
>> }Hey all.
>> }
>> }I've got a windows 95 machine connected to my linux machine via a null
>> }modem and serial cable.  The linux box is connected to the modem and I'm
>> }using it as a server to the internet for my '95 box (using slirp cause I
>> }don't have the drive space to recompile the kernel for ip forwarding).
>> }What I'd like to do is reverse my setup so that the '95 machine is my
>> }internet machine and serves the linux box.  Does anyone know how to do
>> }this?
>> 
>> I don't have an answer for you but I would like to know why in the world
>> would you want to do this.  Sounds like a Honda Civic towing a tow truck...
>
>For one, the linux machine is a 486dx25 with 8M and the '95 machine is a
>486dx66 with 20M, and for another, I'm pretty sure I'm getting some kind
>of packet loss somewhere because when I use talk programs like Iphone, I
>can hear other ppl fine, but my sound comes across gapped and lossy (this
>on a 33.6 modem).  I want to connect the modem directly to the '95 machine
>and see if that changes anything.
>
>Michael

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E-Mail: Michael B. Nelson <mike at clovis.org>
mnelson at bellsouth.net
Date: 06/03/97
Time: 23:39:52

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