On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 10:05:06AM -0500, Pete Smith wrote:
>
> Use a second hub upstairs in the shack, connected to the two PCs and the
> network cable going downstairs. I think this should work and hubs are
> cheap, but will it?
>
> Use a second NIC in the shack computer and run a network cable to the TR
> machine. I don't know if Win98SE can support what amount to two networks
> at once. Would I have to run Windows on the TR machine, or is there such a
> thing as a DOS driver for a 10 MHz Ethernet card?
What you need to do is get fron ethernet to the serial port - so
that you can telnet to a dx cluster.
There are several ways to do this.
This one uses a computer running linux and works very well - this
is how I have done it for several years:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/radio/trlog_telnet.html
I have used K1TTT's WinTelnetx software and it works
well using a windows computer as the gateway:
http://www.k1ttt.net/software.html#wintelnetx
I see there is a similar program here:
http://www.f5mzn.online.fr/httpdxcatcher.html
You can find these links on the TR-Log web page here:
http://www.qth.com/tr/contrib.html
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