Hi, I've never done DOS networking before I am looking for documentation and software to do the following I want a DOS-based image (below 2.88MB to be run from a CD made with Bart's CDR-Pack 1.3+multimem disk addon) I want to support a bunch of PCI network cards for example 3Com 905B Davicom 9009 Realtek 8139* Via Rhine and Rhine-II Broadcom (various models) Intel EEpro* etc.. etc.. ideally to support most ethernet cards I might encounter working at a small computer store (basically all of the most common PCI-only cards and onboards chips) a TCP/IP stack a SMB client (maybe a SMB server) (maybe a NFS client and/or server) (maybe a FTP client) a DHCP client a DOS capable ping (does normal ping from win9x works on plain dos) (maybe ssh and/or telnet client) (maybe a scp client) (maybe something like tcpdump) (not related to networking) an equivalent to lspci from linux (not related to networking) a equivalent to the mv command (that works recursively with non-empty directory (md junk then mv *.* junk move everything , files and directory ,to the junk directory except off course the junk directory itself)) if you have any docs or software packages I would be interested , also if anyone built something like this I would be interested in knowing what problems you faced and how you resolved those problems thanks, Jean-Francois Perreault NanoTech Informatique

Sorry but I do not know most of the above. However for a dos based network, I would suggest you check out Novell Netware Lite which provides quite a good network running under dos. At the time it came out (pre Windows), Novell Netware was very much the networking standard but was somewhat complex for the smaller user. Thus Lite was born, which was a cut down version and made much easier to set up and use. Good luck - keep us posted.

I don't think you can have support for that much hardware in a 2.88 MB space. I what you are trying to do is to make a universal system restore, I don't think it is going to work. Not all systems (especially old ones) can boot from a CD. The above observations based on your statement about a small computer store.

I always run from floppies, it depends on type of network software used: M$ Network Client 3.0 and M$ Lan Manager use drivers loaded through the software for whatever protocol it is setup to use. Arachne web browser, EZNOS web server and NeOS networking software use the TCP/IP protocol and loading of NIC Packet Drivers. Novell Netware and Spartacom's Lantastic have the drivers loaded through the software. Invisible LAN use NETBios drivers loaded through the software. SAMBA compatibility see www.samba.org, lots of info. available, M$ Networking tutorial see www.wown.com Also have a peruse thru www.mwpms.uklinux.net

TCP/IP stack see http://www.smashco.com/wattcp.asp for details of WATTCP