# Networking FreeDOS - TCP/IP

      The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP)
      is now the most widely used protocol to connect to a Network.
      TCP/IP was deviced as an open standard via the RFC system, used to
      connect the Internet. Of the main protocols in use, TCP/IP is the only
      one that was originally designed to be used over Wide Area Networks
      and not just on LANs.
      There have been a number of implementations of the TCP/IP stack for
      DOS (as it wasn't standardized by the OS). The most successful, as it is
      still in use, is WatTCP (Waterloo TCP/IP Kernel) available from Erick
      Engelke. It is free to use, but the programmer's manual must be
      purchased. A 32-bit version of WatTCP is also available.
      The KA9Q TCP/IP stack was used in other applications, but is most found
      in the various versions of the NOS NET.EXE program, which includes
      applications (ftp, smtp, etc.) as part of the program.
      Most of the remaining TCP/IP stacks did not have any third party support,
      so when the original programmers stopped development, all applications
      development stopped too. These include the MIT/CMU pcip, Trumpet TCP/IP,
      TinyTCP and FreePASCAL TCP/IP stacks. To a lesser extent this also
      includes the Microsoft and Novell TCP/IP stacks, and the various other
      commercial solutions.

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## External Links

        * PC-TCP (PC/TCP) Packet Driver Specification
          (see: http://www.crynwr.com/packet_driver.html)
        * Packet Drivers, made simple (PACKET.DOC) (Joe R. Doupnik)
          (see: http://www.crynwr.com/drivers/pktd11.zip)
        * How PC-IP Came to Be (John Romkey, as told to Bernard Aboba)
          (see: http://aboba.drizzlehosting.com/internaut/pc-ip.html)
        * Desktop TCP/IP At Middle Age (Steven Baker)
          (see: http://www.ece.ubc.ca/home/staff/faculty/gillies/etc/www/
          9802net.html - no longer online!)
        * The KA9Q NOS TCP/IP package (Phil Karn)
          (see: http://www.ka9q.net/code/ka9qnos/)
        * (url?) Universal TCP/IP Network Bootdisk for Microsoft Networks
           ver 5.2 (Brad Driver)

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