This is a collection of drivers, programs and helper scripts for setting up and using networking under DOS and/or DOSBox with a real or virtual NE2000-compatible network card. All files herein can be found publicly on the internet. I hope this package will simplify installation and use, as it's a bit of a pain to do it from scratch nowadays. For using this with Peter Grahen's NE2000 emulator patch for DOSBox, you need to disable DOSBox' builtin ipx emulation, and add a [ne2000] section to dosbox.conf: -- snip -- [ipx] ipx=false [ne2000] ne2000=true nicbase=300 nicirq=9 macaddr=AC:DE:48:88:99:AA # Note that `realnic=list` will *list* the available network cards when # DOSBox launches. Pick the desired network interface ID(number) from the # list, and change this variable. For example `realnic=1`: realnic=list -- snip -- As for setting some common environment variables, either add them to the [autoexec] section of dosbox.conf, or if you're actually using DOS, add it to AUTOEXEC.BAT: -- snip -- rem Network driver paths set NETPATH=C:\net set IPXPATH=%NETPATH%\ipx set TCPPATH=%NETPATH%\tcp set MTCPCFG=%TCPPATH%\mtcp.cfg set PATH=%PATH%;%NETPATH%;%TCPPATH% -- snip -- The hardware configuration is specified in 3 files, not counting the [ne2000] part of DOSbox. If your hardware configuration doesn't match the DOSBox defaults (or if you're on real hardware with a different configuration), you need to edit one or more of these files: %NETPATH%\STARTNET.BAT: Instructs the packet driver where to find the hardware %NETPATH%\tcp\mtcp.cfg: TCP configuration %NETPATH%\ipx\net.cfg : IPX Configuration Finally, I've made some helper scripts for easy startup, located in %NETPATH%: STARTNET.BAT, STOPNET.BAT STARTIPX.BAT, STOPIPX.BAT STARTTCP.BAT (just runs `dhcp`; no actual startup is required) Please don't set this stuff up in DOSBox on a machine which is not behind a firewall. There are also a few problems. Contact me if you have any ideas! - I can't get mtcp to work under DOSBox with Peter's patch. I'm not sure why. - After starting the IPX driver via STARTIPX.BAT, mtcp stops working. This has only beed tested on real hardware, as I can't get mtcp to work under DOSBox. // gammy