[Coco] Re: ISP for OS-9!

[David Hazelton]

Allen Huffman wrote:
> HawkSoft made a socket library from KA9Q - ask on the list. Someone is 
> bound to have seen it.
> 
> Maybe we can write RadiSys in Oregon - need to know when ISP was 
> discontinued. I'll check.
> 
> Marks enet is hw, talks via serial port like a Hayes modem - would work 
> on a VIC-20.
> 
> There is C tcp/ip stuff, could be ported to MM1/306 (too big for CoCo) I 
> bet.
> 
> What are you wanting to do?
> 
>     -- Allen
> 
> {composed and uploaded via my Palm PDA cell phone. Please excuse  the 
> typose}
> 

Think out loud what I want to do.
The AT306, besides the Coco is the only computer I own that is not on my 
network.  Since my Computer room is actually in the cellar, I normally 
telnet and/or VNC from the warmth and comfort of my wife's PC.  I would 
like to be able to at least telnet to it.  I could use one of my COM 
ports on the Linux box as a gateway to get a login, Sort of like what 
Mark is doing with the SuperBoard. But to FTP in this method, I would 
have to run KA9Q remotely then FTP.  or it would be easier to just to 
RZSZ data over.  Just goto look into how to assign an IP to a TTY in linux.

Anyways, I do not do anything on the AT306 partly because it is not on 
the network.  Apache was already ported, I believe with ISP from Allan 
R. Batteiger from RTSI.  VNC would be nice, but true Telnet, FTP and/or 
a e-mail package like Pine or something like Kmail for MGR.  Maybe a NFS 
daemon and/or client ported from Linux.  On RTSI, there is a SMB client 
(SAMBA), (which at my last job would crash the VME boxes).  That way I 
could map my SAMBA shares off the Linux box and easily move files 
between Linux, Windows, MACOS9.22 (netalk).  I could print to my network 
printers, either through SAMBA or CUPS directly.  I don't know what I am 
capable of doing, but I know that my MM1/306 is just wasting space.

I was thinking if the MM1/306 was networkable through a ethernet card 
with software that their might be an easy way to add a board to the 
original MM1, sounds like a hardware project for someone, that the 
software would still work.

Some of theses  things might be possible through the Hawksoft Libraries, 
using SLIP/PPP direct connection to a Linux Com Port @ 115200.  That 
maybe my only option, but unless the the Libraries are ISP compatible 
everything has to be recompiled and we would have 2 versions of 
everything.  I do not know if ISP stuff had to be recompiled for 
Softstax (SPF)or if Softstax had ISP compatibility.  If I take some 
other Library, then compatibility is a known problem.

I babbled enough, Talk to you later.

~David Hazelton

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