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DOS Packet Driver for Realtek 8168

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First post, by stege

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Have tried several other packet drivers (8139 and older) but without success. Can ping the outside world but there's not really much else I can do (telnet, ftp, etc) without a functional packet driver.
Any suggestions? Have found nothing on the webs on the 8168 (HP ThinClient T420)

Thanks.

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Reply 1 of 6, by ruthan

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Something from here could help..
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Reply 3 of 6, by Caluser2000

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vladimiro wrote on 2021-08-16, 01:19:

Hi
Hello, I hope it works

https://www.corus.pro/pilotes/VAD/VAD747/rtll … Driver_v200B28/

looks good by the readme.txt

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Reply 4 of 6, by mike_canada

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stege wrote on 2021-08-14, 06:21:

Have tried several other packet drivers (8139 and older) but without success. Can ping the outside world but there's not really much else I can do (telnet, ftp, etc) without a functional packet driver.
Any suggestions? Have found nothing on the webs on the 8168 (HP ThinClient T420)

If pinging the world gives you success then your software probably just does not want to work. Luckily a guy who also visits here created a whole collection of internet tools (which include an FTP and WEB server) that work with DOS. He mentioned he tested his software on very old machines so his software might work for your needs. All you really need to use his software is your packet driver installed (which you did already), and setup a configuration as per mTCP's standards.

He has the software, source code, and documentation all for free. Go to:

https://www.brutman.com/mTCP/

Reply 5 of 6, by mbbrutman

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It's difficult to make a packet driver appear out of thin air for hardware that doesn't have one. But you might be able to make it work by using a "shim" driver.

A shim driver allows you to use an NDIS or ODI driver as a packet driver. You install the NDIS or ODI driver, and then the shim driver. The shim driver translates the NDIS or ODI driver calls, giving the appearance of a native packet driver for your hardware.

See this page for some packet driver shims: http://www.shikadi.net/network/ .

Mike

Reply 6 of 6, by stege

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Thank you gentlemen.
I'm already using the mTCP, brilliant piece of code. The packet driver @Vladimiro and @Caluser2000 suggested only appears to work, giving a nice status message when launched but nothing works afterwords (net wise), not even ping.

I'll try mr mbbrutman's approach and give it a go.
I'll report back asap.

Thank you again!

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