[nos-bbs] Jnos & windows

[Barry Siegfried]

["George (Skip) VerDuin" <k8rra at ameritech.net> wrote]:

> Just an answer,
> 
> Today - no.
>
> Some day soon - perhaps (it's being worked on without a due date)...
>
> On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 06:48 -0400, Jean Letourneau (VE2PKT) wrote:
>
> > Just a question,
> >
> > Other the Jnos for DOS, is there a way to run Jnos on WinXP or 2K?

That isn't entirely true, George.

The following is a link to download the SwsvPkt driver for Windows
(XP/2000/NT4 only):

http://www.softsystem.co.uk/page7.html

This is a packet driver which will network xNOS in an NTVDM with the
Windows system it runs on.

There are two caveats, however:

1) Since the SwsvPkt packet driver simply shares the ethernet adapter
that Windows is using (including its hardware MAC address) a few mods
need to be made to xNOS in order to make it "play nicely" with the
Windows TCP/IP stack.  These mods are necessary in the Ethernet sendraw()
and recv() subfunctions (both in PKTDRVR.C) and the ARP recv() subfunction
(in ARP.C).  Maiko can give the definitive answer as to whether or not
he has made the necessary mods to JNOS for this.

2) So that the SwsvPkt NTVDM doesn't hog the CPU the "Idle Sensitivity"
setting of the .PIF shortcut which launches the SwsvPkt NTVDM and runs
the batch file that loads the SwsvPkt packet driver needs to be modified.
This can be found by right clicking on the .PIF shortcut --> Properties
--> Misc tab.  Normally, the "Idle Sensitivity" default setting is at
half scale between minimum and maximum.  Change this setting to MAXIMUM
(the HIGHEST setting).

I am personally using the SwsvPkt driver on Windows XP/NT4 machines in
my home and on my desktop at work.  Although I am not using JNOS I am
using another variety and it works very well for my purposes.

73, de Barry, K2MF >>
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