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Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 20:19:54 -0500 (EST)
From: Gary Welles <gary AT wellesway DOT com>
To: OpenDos <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Arachne Web browser for DOS
Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

Michal Tyc writes:

> On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 08:55:56 -0500 (EST), Gary Welles wrote:
>
> > I don't know if Arachne can work with PC/TCP.
>
> Arachne has built-in TCP/IP stack (WatTCP library) and requires
> Packet Driver.
>
> Hope this helps,

It does and the answer is no as one can't have two TCP/IP stacks,
at least not sharing the same IP address.  The reason behind the
two card, two stack fix for Arachne with DV/X:
URL=http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bmm/dvx.html

Ben Jemmet writes:

> Ah, fair enough.  As I said, I've never used packet drivers, but I thought
> they presented a standard interface at some layer below IP.

If one were to write a TCP/IP client, say FTP, with built-in
TCP/IP, it couldn't simultaneous share the packet driver with Arachne's
TCP/IP.  Arachne and an FTP client could on the other hand share
a TCP/IP stack.  MS didn't define a standard TCP/IP interface for
DOS as it did with WinSock for Windows.

-- Gary Welles