Question: does dosbox staging implements its own PC/TCP packed driver?

[LowLevelMahn]

Are you using the latest Dosbox-Staging Version?

• I have checked releases and am using the latest release.

Different version than latest?

No response

What Operating System are you using?

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Whats your question and how can we help?

there is this so called packed driver interface that (i think) is the most used TCP API under dos (maybe im totaly wrong)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC/TCP_Packet_Driver
https://web.archive.org/web/20211224004507/http://www.crynwr.com/packet_driver.html

does dosbox staging implements this API directly allowing (optional) to omit the ethernet hardware and dos driver layer completely?

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• Yes, I agree.

[kcgen]

Not built into DOSBox itself, but external pack drivers work, like Crynwr's NE2000:
For example, ne2000.com -i 0x60 3 0x300.
Or winpkt.com.

[LowLevelMahn]

ok i see: the dos packet driver is then the base of winpkt.com what give tcp support in win3.11

just player around with mTCP and thought that having a builtin solution could have any benefit
but it seems to work good enough for not beeing a direct part of dosbox

[Wengier]

I think the packet driver ne2000.com may be added to Resources too, if there is no license issue (I know it is also open-source).

[kcgen]

Archived discussion to https://github.com/dosbox-staging/archived-discussions-for-dosbox-staging