Configuration Parameters
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Good news, everyone! User Documentation Version: 2020-01-01 M. Brutman ([email protected]) http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/ Table of Contents Introduction and Setup Introduction..............................................................................................................................................................8 What is mTCP?...................................................................................................................................................8 Features...............................................................................................................................................................8 Tested machines/environments...........................................................................................................................9 Licensing...........................................................................................................................................................10 Packaging..........................................................................................................................................................10 Binaries.....................................................................................................................................................................10 Documentation..........................................................................................................................................................11 Support and contact information.......................................................................................................................11 Setup......................................................................................................................................................................12 Introduction.......................................................................................................................................................12 Hardware setup..................................................................................................................................................12 Packet drivers............................................................................................................................................................12 Loading the packet driver..........................................................................................................................................13 Sample packet driver command lines........................................................................................................................14 Finding packet drivers...............................................................................................................................................14 Creating the mTCP configuration file...............................................................................................................15 Creating the minimal configuration file for use with DHCP.....................................................................................15 Setting your own networking parameters using static configuration.........................................................................16 Networking related configuration parameters...................................................................................................16 Other configuration parameters.........................................................................................................................18 Advanced topics................................................................................................................................................19 The MTU setting.......................................................................................................................................................19 SLIP and PPP notes...................................................................................................................................................21 How the configuration file works..............................................................................................................................22 mTCP and Virtual Environments...........................................................................................................................23 DOSBox............................................................................................................................................................23 VirtualBox.........................................................................................................................................................23 VMWare Player.................................................................................................................................................24 SwsVpkt............................................................................................................................................................24 mTCP Applications DHCP client...........................................................................................................................................................27 Introduction.......................................................................................................................................................27 Special hardware or software requirements:.....................................................................................................27 Setup instructions..............................................................................................................................................27 Using DHCP......................................................................................................................................................28 DHCP lease duration.........................................................................................................................................28 DHCP failures...................................................................................................................................................29 Configuration parameters..................................................................................................................................29 Parameters provided by the DHCP server:................................................................................................................29 Configuration parameters:.........................................................................................................................................30 Recent changes..................................................................................................................................................30 DNSTest.................................................................................................................................................................31 Introduction.......................................................................................................................................................31 Special hardware or software requirements:.....................................................................................................31 Setup instructions..............................................................................................................................................31 Using DNSTest..................................................................................................................................................31 Recent changes..................................................................................................................................................32 FTP client...............................................................................................................................................................33 Introduction.......................................................................................................................................................33 Special hardware or software requirements:.....................................................................................................33 Using FTP.........................................................................................................................................................33 ASCII vs. BINARY transfers............................................................................................................................34 FTP transfer modes...........................................................................................................................................35 DOS filename limitations..................................................................................................................................35 Filenames and Quoting.....................................................................................................................................36 Command line editing.......................................................................................................................................36 Scripting support...............................................................................................................................................36 Advanced Configuration Parameters................................................................................................................37 Recent changes..................................................................................................................................................38