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From:	stanb AT netcom DOT com (Stan Brown)
Subject:	Re: Help with TCP/IP package
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Date:	Sat, 10 Jun 1995 01:07:47 GMT
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sturm AT ost1 DOT ping DOT de (Oliver Sturm) writes:

>In <stanbD9qF3p DOT DLp AT netcom DOT com> you (Stan Brown) wrote :

>These lines should be the source of your problem, exactly. I don't 
>know if wattcp (that's what I think is used with the tcp/ip-library) 
>handles some kind of resolv.conf- and/or host-file, but if it doesn't 
>or if these files don't contain the correct values to resolve the name
>of the host you tried to `ping', you're desperately in need for a 
>nameserver. Usually the host you're directly connected to should be 
>able to do this. Anyway, if wattcp isn't too bad (and I never heard 
>anything like this), it should be able to do a `ping 205.159.77.248', 
>as this way there is no hostname that needs to be resolved. 


	A ping by address is *exactly* what I am trying to do. It is what
is retruning the error message.

>>gateway=205.159.77.248
>>hostname=faspc4
>>#                    domainslist="uwaterloo.ca"
>>
>>     The problem seems to be in the _arp_resolve(0 function. Can anyone
>>help me get this working ?

>If this is right (I mean the function), there might be another source 
>for the error, as arp is usually a protocol for converting ip-adresses
>into ethernet-adresses, which are six bytes instead of four for 
>tcp/ip. In this case I can't help you any further, as I really don't 
>know anything about wattcp.

	That is where it is failing, I can't figure out if it's trying to find
teh DOS boxes Ethernet address or the remote machines. Why should it need
the later ?  Why can't it figure out the former ?

>>
>>     BTW the TCPINFO.EXE program mentioned in the doc files doesn;t 
>>seem t be in the distribution that I got.
>>
>Oliver


>--

>   Oliver Sturm   sturm AT ost1 DOT ping DOT de

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Stan Brown     stanb AT netcom DOT com                                    404-996-6955
Factory Automation Systems
Atlanta Ga.
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DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt
handler, and always will be.                -Russell Williams

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