From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stian Sletner Subject: Re: Doom in Linux HOWTO Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 17:55:30 +0100 Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20021208165530.GB25194@sletner.com> References: <3DF358C7.4050401@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DF358C7.4050401@yahoo.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Stas Sergeev Cc: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org * At 2002-12-08T17:35+0300, Stas Sergeev wrote: : | I really think that playing doom on the same machine the tunnel is | running, is rather rare requirement, so you can write that section | omitting that detail. I find this to be a very strange opinion. Most people wanting to play Doom on the 'net won't have an extra machine on which to run a tunnel. | I also still think that it is nothing more than your bridging software | limitation. See what the main page says: | --- | For those who wanna play in Windows, *with more than 2 LANs | connected*, try GIT | --- | And I also think that tunelling to dsn will work. I tried 2 dosemu | sessions: first with $_vnet=(on) and the second with $_vnet=(off) (as | acting from outside) and the dooms see each other. Mm, I still have some testing to do... | Well, I don't agree it is a third-party patch:) Furthermore it will be | a part of dosemu eventually, so this part of the doc is nothing more | than a "temporary hack". I'm aware. On the other hand, it's been supplied as a patch for quite some time now. :) | No, this is whatever CPU you want to be emulated (actually just | reported to the dos prog with some other minor differences). Ok, I guess it's rather irrelevant in Doom's case, then? | Doom might not requre neither XMS nor EMS but still setting them to 0 | is not recommended as many other progs may start complaining. That's sort of outside scope of the HOWTO, however I believe there was some particular reason for setting 0 EMS, but I don't remember what it was, now. | Is it really necessary to do that packets conversion? I was playing | network doom only on dsn and it works also without a novell_hack, so I | am not sure what problems does it solve exactly. So why is this | important? Hm. Looks like it does convert them to 802.3 regardless of whether it's on or off? | OK, I think you have to also describe a $_vnet possibility. Btw, if | $_vnet is enabled, $_netdev is ignored, which must be noted. Yes, I will expand this part when Section 4.2 is written. | How does this feet with your suggestion of setting $_hogthreshold to | 0? It must eat 100% of your cpu if $_hogthreshold is not enabled. You're right. This was an error. It DOES eat alot of CPU. :) Thanks for your feedback. -- Stian Sletner