From: agulbra@flipper.pvv.unit.no (Arnt Gulbrandsen) Subject: Re: Linux/Dos Networking.. Possible? Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1993 16:04:25 GMT
In article <C4vCG4.622@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jas54553@ih-nxt01 (Jerry Allen Segler) writes:
>This is a simple idea but I don't know if/when/ever Linux supports this..
>
>Is their a way to have a DOS machine on a Network (EtherNet or TCP/IP) to
>mount a Linux Partition (Read and Write).?
A while ago I worked a bit on a system to do almost this. My idea was
for a roomful of DOS boxes to share a single read-only disk, and using
_very_ little space on the clients was important: 3-4k plus the packet
driver. Writing would be possible, but not to a shared disk.
I have something which should work. I haven't tested it since I found
the last bug; the DOS-box broke down. If there's any interest I could
work some more on it... is there?
Technical: The protocol is similar to the old Sun ND protocol, runs on
top of UDP and IP, and the client software is clever enough to let one
other program (NCSA telnet, say) use IP without pktmux.