Good news, everyone! User Documentation Version: 2020-03-07 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................................................................................................................................................20 The MTU setting.......................................................................................................................................................20 SLIP and PPP notes...................................................................................................................................................21 How the configuration file works..............................................................................................................................22 mTCP and Virtual Environments...........................................................................................................................24 DOSBox............................................................................................................................................................24 VirtualBox.........................................................................................................................................................24 VMWare Player.................................................................................................................................................25 SwsVpkt............................................................................................................................................................25 mTCP Applications DHCP client...........................................................................................................................................................28 Introduction.......................................................................................................................................................28 Special hardware or software requirements:.....................................................................................................28 Setup instructions..............................................................................................................................................28 Using DHCP......................................................................................................................................................29 DHCP lease duration.........................................................................................................................................29 DHCP failures...................................................................................................................................................30 Configuration parameters..................................................................................................................................30 Parameters provided by the DHCP server:................................................................................................................30 Configuration parameters:.........................................................................................................................................31 Recent changes..................................................................................................................................................31 DNSTest.................................................................................................................................................................32 Introduction.......................................................................................................................................................32 Special hardware or software requirements:.....................................................................................................32 Setup instructions..............................................................................................................................................32 Using DNSTest..................................................................................................................................................32 Recent changes..................................................................................................................................................33 FTP client...............................................................................................................................................................34 Introduction.......................................................................................................................................................34 Special hardware or software requirements:.....................................................................................................34 Using FTP.........................................................................................................................................................34 ASCII vs. BINARY transfers............................................................................................................................35 FTP transfer modes...........................................................................................................................................36 DOS filename limitations..................................................................................................................................36 Filenames and Quoting.....................................................................................................................................37 Command line editing.......................................................................................................................................37 Scripting support...............................................................................................................................................37 Advanced Configuration Parameters................................................................................................................38 Recent changes..................................................................................................................................................39