VirtualBox Vs Dosbox Networking capabilities

[lucky7456969]

Hello,
Recently, I tried to setup dosbox to run internet applications to no avail. So I consult vbox source code so that I may be able to pick up something useful. In DosBox, no matter what I do, I couldn't get the gateway's mac address. I wonder in vbox what mechanisms drive it to obtain the MAC addresses of the gateway/router? Be more specifically, which part of the source code?
Thanks
Jack

[mpack]

This is not the proper forum for that discussion. See the OSE forum or the developers mailing list.

[mark rumsey]

Dosbox is the wrong environment for your application. It is a DOS emulator designed speficially for running games and Dosbox themselves won't support any other use. This means the networking capabilities are geared towards DOS games, and since TCP/IP was in its infancy when networked DOS games were replaced with Windows based games the chances are the code you need for your application does not exist. You will probably have more success running 'real' dos in VBox. I have done this and have WfW 3.11 happily talking TCP/IP to other guest machines running in parallel under Dosbox including Win95, Win98 and Win2000. I've even had it talking to the Win7 host and XPMode.

[Technologov]

DOSbox can emulate IPX/SPX over TCP/IP, but that's all.
It doesn't do TCP/IP in Guest OS, and doesn't support bridging.

What DOSbox does is enough for DOS games.

[mark rumsey]

I have done this and have WfW 3.11 happily talking TCP/IP to other guest machines running in parallel under Dosbox including Win95, Win98 and Win2000. I've even had it talking to the Win7 host and XPMode

Did I really say that? Of course I meand VirtualBox, not Dosbox. Oops! The only things I have running under Dosbox are Dos games.