Re: Marinetti + Serial Cable + Windows = Online ;confirmations?

["Chris Morse" <win32mfc@gmail.com>]

roughana wrote:
> Chris Morse wrote:
> > Chris Morse wrote:
> > > Has anyone here done this successfully with 2000 or XP?
>
> Yes, I have also tested successfully on Windows 2000 server.
> I can't remember if i got XP working or not.

Great!  I'll let you know if I can get it working with XP.

> > > How's the stability?
>
> Marinetti and the PPP link layer are stable.
> I can't comment on whatever IIgs or Windows box you're running though
> :-)

Hopefully not a problem.  Only issue might be memory.  The IIgs has a
total of 1.125MB.  It will be a little while (I hope not too long)
before I buy the dram chips from GSE-Reactive to pump it up to 5MB.

> > After doing a little more googling, I see that Marinetti supports MS-CHAPv1
>
> Ahh... finally some recognition for my long hours spent on this :-)

You deserve it!  Jumping through those MS-CHAP hoops to get it working
definitely took time and effort.  I was looking at the RFC for it; what
a pain.

> > I'm nowhere near ready to even try this, as I need to determine if I
> > can use a Super Serial Card with Marinetti on the IIgs or if I have to
> > go find a mini DIN cable to use with the IIgs native serial port.
>
> Marinetti PPP uses one of the GS serial ports.

I figure as much.  I'll have to order a cable online.  Ideally I'd like
to use a miniDin-8 to DB9, preferably with the RX/TX signals correct so
that I don't have to use a null-modem adapter.  Most of what I see are
miniDin-8 to DB25 (for about $5), but to go to DB9 I only found it at
one place and they want $20 for it.  Then I'll probably need a DB9/DB9
null-modem adapter.


> > I assume that 2000 and XP support MS-CHAPv1, but Vista will drop support for it.
>
> I do have plans to implement MS-CHAPv2, however, given the (almost non
> existant) response to MS-CHAPv1, it is low priority at the moment.
> >From memory (it has been a while since I looked at the differences) it
> requires some more crypto/hashing stuff to be implemented.

Oh, that's great news!  Certainly not high priority as Vista isn't even
out yet and I don't see lots of people converting very quickly, unless
they are buying completely new machines.  I'm happy with XP and will
probably keep my XP and 2000 machines running as long as they can.

> For assistance with configuration, I do recommend reading the Juiced GS
> issues mentioned in the sourceforge bug tracker (Juiced GS magazine
> v9.4 and v10.1  - v10.1 is the article with the walkthrough).
> Available as back issues from Syndicomm online store.

Ya, I read the your readme comments that mentioned those articles.  Mo'
money.  I've got a lot of retro gear on my "to get" list already.
Cable, 4MB of DRAM, IIgs toolbox/reference books, ORCA/C, Nibble mag
DVD..  I should be able to figure out how to set up Marinetti w/
windows.

Thanks for the input, I appreciate it!

// CHRIS