[Color Computer] Re:[coco] www on coco

[jdaggett at gate.net]

Curtis

In my case I do not need the PPP layer. All I need is TCP/IP. My router and 
firewall does PPPoE already and all I need to do is connect to the router DHCP 
server to communicate to the internet. 

It would be prudent to allow any COCO TCP/IP stack to obtain the IP address via 
a DHCP server. 

james

On 9 Nov 2006 at 13:08, L. Curtis Boyle wrote:


> On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:21:41 -0600, Tad Burnett <tburnett at vermontel.net>  

> wrote:

> 

> > Can you find an ISP that will talk to you using the slow baud and packet

> > size...

> > Are you willing to pay long distance charges

> >  to reach it...

> >

> > How about the idea of using a PC at your location to serve as a link  

> > between

> > a DSL internet and a CoCo ..

> > PC could also be used as a mass storage device to connect to a plane Jane

> > CoCo through the tape drive port...

> >

> > Instead of hard ware changes to the CoCo that only a few would try

> > software could be written and shared by many....

> > Tad

> >

> 

>      That's not a bad idea, although I am suprised that one would need long  

> distance to contact a modem based ISP... here in Canada, pretty well all  

> ISP's have both (especially for rural areas, where you can't get  

> broadband).

>      I know Mark's Superboard is supposed to have a TCP/IP hardware chip on  

> it that handles the packet handling, so that would make things much easier  

> (I believe it even includes the outside PPP layer as well), as well as  

> some of the protocols within TCP/IP (FTP, etc.), but that would only  

> appeal to the hardcore hackers who don't mind soldering inside of their  

> machines (I would have to get someone to do that for me... my soldering  

> skills suck).

>     The only problem with hosting on a local PC is that one would have to  

> make it cross platform to cover all of the Coco users who also have a  

> "main" PC... you would have to write for Windows, Linux and OS X.

>      The other thing is that since Contiki is on a C-64 (an inferior  

> machine to a Coco 3), and they did it, is that there is the challenge of  

> getting it to work on a Coco... which is the reason a lot of us did a lot  

> of the stuff for the Coco and OS9 over the last 2 decades.

> 

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> L. Curtis Boyle

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