On 03/04/2016 12:20 PM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Herb, Yes I do have experience with WinSock, in fact that's what I used back then with a modem set up on Win 3.1 on a home PC. Because I have a network available to me in my house now, something that would have been unheard-of back then, I took advantage of it and went with the TCP/IP direct connection method. Made less sense to use WinSock given lack of a modem.
This brings back memories. AT&T Starlan (3B's, Windows WFW/3.11). Winsock, SLIP, PPP, Modems and something to do with Clarkson to load more than one Network stack. Since I did support for AT&T Starlan we tended to do the ridiculous to see what was possible. My home network had 3B1's, a beige box PC and an NAU (serial to Network interface). A few years later the 3B1's had died but I was loading up Linux on beige boxes (my 6386sx which I still have). I upgraded from 1BaseT (unofficial) to 10BaseT. But I still have plenty of splinters from the coax. I bet 6386sx still has the Realtek NE2000 clone in it. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies