
The structure of the archive shows how to install STinG. I guess it's 
obvious, but I rather state it once more. Note that if you got old STiK
active by default on your machine, you must desactivate it first, by 
changing the filename extensions of STIKTSR.PRG and STIK.ACC.

The STING.PRG goes into the AUTO folder of your boot partition, the 
STING.INF goes to the same place. The latter must be edited to hold 
the path to the STinG modules. Put everything from the archive's STING 
directory into this directory. You can throw away all STXs apart from 
SERIAL, TCP, UDP and RESOLVE.STX, if you wish. Put the contents of the 
archive's CPX directory to where your control panel server (Xcontrol, 
Zcontrol, COPS, whatever) searches for them. Now reboot. You should 
observe STING.PRG running, showing how it loads the modules. Then you'll 
see the desktop.

Now open the `STinG Internals' CPX within your control panel server. Switch 
STinG active. You can choose reaction time via the slider. Shorter times 
impose a larger load on the system. I do not notice the load on a 12 MHz 
ordinary ST with the 10 ms setting. If you do then choose a larger value. 
Click OK.

Now edit the ROUTE.TAB file inside your STinG directory. I suggest for now 
to only have one line in that file, looking like

0.0.0.0		0.0.0.0		Modem 1		0.0.0.0

Note that the space between the four entries is made up of TABs ! The space
between `Modem' and `1' is a real space, however. Exchange the `Modem 1'
by the name of the serial interface you have your modem connected to, but
keep the 0.0.0.0 entries for now.

Now choose if you want to use the Dialer for establishing a connection.
If your machine is connected to the Net via a phone line (modem) to some 
ISP, you'd most certainly choose the Dialer, even if you use a leased line.
If, however, your ST is just connected to some other machine via a null-
modem cable, you'd prefer using the 'STinG Port Setup' CPX. The latter is 
described first, I suggest to read it even if you need to use the Dialer.

Now open the `STinG Port Setup' CPX. Make sure the name of the serial port
to your modem is shown in the second upper left button. Now click `Active', 
and `Reload Routing Table' to be selected. Enter the address you've written
down into the `IP Address' field. If your ISP imposes a restriction on MTU, 
enter this value here too. Now click the button showing `Addressing', and 
change it to `General'. Make sure only `SLIP' is activated. Now click OK 
here too, and close the control panel server.

For using the Dialer, make sure a DIAL.INF in the same directory as the 
Dialer main binary points to the directory you have your *.SCR files. Edit
DIAL.SCR to reflect the circumstances of dialing into your ISP. The file 
contains a lot of helpful comment lines on all topics. After knowing all 
this special info on the parameters, you can edit them from the Dialer's 
config section too. Now start the Dialer, click 'Enable', and 'Connect'. A 
Dialer window will appear telling what the Dialer is doing. Finally, if 
successful, the window will disappear again, and the text on the 'Connect' 
button, which you clicked before will change to 'Disconnect'. You can leave 
the Dialer now, and restart it later, when you want to shut down the conn-
ection. Note the DIAL.LOG file will contain the precise time of initiating
and shutting down the connection, and how long it lasted. If you put the 
proper values into DIAL.SCR, it will also tell you how much money you have 
to pay for it. Note you also need to put your phone company's tariffs into 
LOCAL.FEE, or whatever else you called your fee-file in DIAL.SCR.

Now your machine is a part of the Internet. To confirm this, try PING. You 
can ping your loopback interface (the address is 127.0.0.1), which is on the 
machine the ping is running on. But try to ping other machines too, like
your provider's nameserver, or whatever comes into your mind. PING shows the
round trip time statistics of the sent and returned packets.

Try traceroute too. It's purpose is to figure out how the packets get to a 
specific destination. It shows all intermediate machines on the way to a 
specified host. It it times out, try ping to see if the host is at all 
reachable. If so, simply try traceroute again. On slow, noisy lines 
sometimes a packet gets lost, that's normal. Try tracing the route to your 
ISP's nameserver. Enter it's IP address, and TRACROUT will show you first 
the IP address of your ISP's modem server, because that's the first machine 
on the way to the nameserver. Confirm, and it'll show the next machine on 
the way. Eventually the destination host is reached, and TRACROUT will tell 
you so.

Note there are other tools available from the Dialer, like GEM integrated 
versions of Ping and TraceRoute, a Resolve tool, batch execution, and 
display of STinG statistics and Memory.

Have fun.
