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TITLE
AmiTCP/IP - TCP/IP protocol stack for Amiga
VERSION
Release 2.1
NEW FEATURES
* Inet-handler:
- With Inet-Handler you can use AmigaDOS IO to access TCP protocol
* finger:
- New application, prints information about local and remote users
* fingerd:
- Calls now finger when asked for local users. (This feature requires
Apipe-handler by Per Bojsen, Apipe-handler can be found e.g. on Fish
disk 783)
* ls:
- New application, an imitation of Unix directory lister. Supports
multiuser filesystems. Included as an example of user and group
database usage
* Napsaterm:
- Default window title is now the name of the remote host
- A public screen can be used with -S switch (thanks trossi!)
* SynClock:
- A simple script which synchronize clock in Amiga with
specified host in network
* AmiTCP:
- A timestamp is added to the log messages
- Faster checksum calculation implemented in assembler
* netlib:
- User and group database handling routines are added to the
net.lib. Release includes example databases for `ls' and `finger'
utilities, which use these databases
- A real gettimeofday() using locale is also added
AUTHORS
The AmiTCP/IP Programming Project Group in Helsinki University of
Technology, referred further on as AmiTCP/IP Group:
Tomi Ollila <Tomi.Ollila@cs.hut.fi>
Pekka Pessi <Pekka.Pessi@hut.fi>
Markus Peuhkuri <Markus.Peuhkuri@hut.fi>
Jarno Rajahalme <Jarno.Rajahalme@hut.fi>
E-mail address for the group is <amitcp-group@hut.fi>.
DESCRIPTION
AmiTCP/IP is the first publicly available TCP/IP protocol stack for
the SANA-II interface. AmiTCP/IP provides an application level socket
interface to the Internet protocols as an Amiga shared library.
The Internet protocol suite, commonly known as TCP/IP, consists of
user level protocols TCP and UDP which use IP as the network level
protocol. There is a wide variety of different network applications
and services using TCP/IP protocols. The BSD compatible socket
interface to Internet protocols makes it possible to port existing
applications with minor modifications.
AmiTCP/IP connects to the network via SANA-II compatible device
drivers. SANA-II is a hardware and protocol independent network
adapter interface specification published by Commodore. Several
network adapter manufactures have made available SANA-II device
drivers for their hardware. Currently there are SANA-II drivers
available at least for Ethernet, Arcnet and serial line interfaces.
So you can connect to Internet with Ethernet LAN, or via modem line
with Serial line IP (SLIP) optionally with compressed headers (CSLIP).
A typical application is to use (C)SLIP to connect to the Internet and
have multiple connections simultaneously. You can read your e-mail and
news, transfer files and have multiple terminal sessions at the same
time over one modem line.
FEATURES
1. Standard SANA-II network device driver interface.
2. BSD-compatible socket interface as a Amiga shared library.
3. ARexx port for configuration and statistics.
4. Over 200 pages of documentation including:
- Installation and configuration
- ARexx port commands
- Programmer's manual based on the BSD IPC manual. This
is a fairly complete tutorial for developing powerful
client/server applications
- Internal description of the implementation
- Utility and API function reference guide in AutoDoc form.
5. Basic applications with source included.
6. Based on the BSD Net/2 release.
7. Full source code included.
While all Internet services and applications (telnet, ftp, news,
mail) are possible with AmiTCP/IP, many applications are still under
development by us and others. Current release of the AmiTCP/IP
contains following applications:
* Telnet - standard program to log on other systems **
* Ftp - standard program to transfer files between systems **
* Finger - prints information about local and remote users
* ls - Directory lister with user and group information
* Napsaterm - a VT100 terminal emulator using remote login protocol
* NcFTP - an alternative interface to FTP protocol %%
* NetFS - a Amiga specific network filesystem ##
* TCP - networking support for GNU Emacs. With TCP you can use any
elisp-based networking applications (Gnus, Gopher, Irchat etc.)
* FingerD - a Finger daemon which prints user information or a banner
file
* QWriter - an application to test and benchmark network
Following network utilities are also available:
* arp - tool to handle ARP hardware address translation tables
* ifconfig - tool to control network interface parameters
* inetd - Internet super server, which starts other services when
needed and provides some simple services by itself
* letnet - a simple filter for connecting to TCP based services.
Suitable for scripts and testing
* netstat - a ARexx script to get statistical information from
networking
* ping - utility to test network connectivity
* route - tool to display and manipulate routing tables
* online/offline - utilities to control SANA-II device drivers
**) Telnet and FTP are ported by Mark Tomlinson and Goeff McCaughan
%%) NcFTP is ported by Carsten Heyl
##) NetFS is authored by Timo Rossi
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
AmiTCP/IP can be run from floppy and with one megabyte of memory,
but as usual, a hard disk and more memory makes your life easier.
Amiga OS release 2.04 or newer is required.
SANA-II device driver is needed for your network adapter. A test
device driver, agnet.device, is included with sources. Also the
freely distributable Commodore A2060 (Arcnet), A2065 (Ethernet),
SLIP and CSLIP drivers are included. The rhslip.device and
rhcslip.device are derived from Commodore drivers but contain bug
fixes made by Olaf Seibert.
LHA or lx utility is required to unarchive distribution archives.
Most of the source files has been compiled with GNU C 2.3 and SAS C
6.3. Some utilities and libraries are compiled only with SAS C 6.3.
However, only the executable files compiled with SAS C are tested.
Also, the DICE C support is untested.
AVAILABILITY
AmiTCP/IP software has been uploaded to the Aminet. It should be
shortly available at the following Aminet hosts:
Switzerland litamiga.epfl.ch (128.178.151.32)
Scandinavia ftp.luth.se (130.240.16.3)
Germany ftp.uni-kl.de (131.246.9.95)
Germany ftp.uni-erlangen.de (131.188.1.43)
Germany ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de (130.149.17.7)
Germany ftp.th-darmstadt.de (130.83.55.75)
Germany ftp.uni-paderborn.de (131.234.2.32)
USA ftp.etsu.edu (192.43.199.20)
USA ftp.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4)
Australia splat.aarnet.edu.au (192.107.107.6)
UK src.doc.ic.ac.uk (146.169.2.1)
For the convenience of Finnish users, AmiTCP/IP is also uploaded to
the ftp.funet.fi.
The latest version of AmiTCP/IP is located in kampi.hut.fi. This
archive is not meant for massive downloading. Major new versions
will be announced and distributed to other archives, too.
DIRECTORY
In Aminet: pub/aminet/comm/net
ftp.funet.fi: pub/amiga/datacomm/tcpip
kampi.hut.fi: AmiTCP
FILE NAMES
AmiTCP/IP revision 2.1 is distributed in following archives:
AmiTCP-bin-21.lha AmiTCP/IP binaries
AmiTCP-api-21.lha Include files and link libraries
AmiTCP-src-21.lha Source for AmiTCP/IP
If you just want to use AmiTCP/IP you need only archive
AmiTCP-bin-21.lha containing also the basic documentation. You can
upgrade from AmiTCP 2.0 to AmiTCP 2.1 with archive AmiTCP-bin-21.lha.
Unarchive it to your work directory, then click Install_AmiTCP.
Installation script copies your old configuration to use with
AmiTCP/IP 2.1.
The separate documentation archives are not changed from release
2.0. The full System manual is available in text, PostScript and
DVI formats. PostScript and DVI documents are formatted for A4 and
"Letter" page sizes, PostScript fonts have 300 dpi resolution.
Normally you need only one version suitable to your printer. Full
documentation includes Programmer's Manual and Implementation
Notes.
Archive name contains the release number, for instance archive
AmiTCP-bin-21.lha contains release 2.1.
To develop your own applications or AmiTCP/IP you need
AmiTCP-api-21.lha. It contains include files and link libraries. Full
source for AmiTCP/IP and most of the applications are in the archive
AmiTCP-src-21.lha.
PRICE AND DISTRIBUTION
AmiTCP/IP is distributed for free under GNU General Public License
Version 2.
PLEASE NOTE
The release 2.1 of AmiTCP contains some improvements and bug fixes
over previous releases. It is compatible with release 2 at binary
level. It is uncompatible with first release at binary level.
HOW TO CONTACT AUTHORS
E-mail address for the group: <amitcp-group@hut.fi>
Bug reports and fixes: <amitcp-bug@hut.fi>
Developer and announce list <amitcp@hut.fi>
Subscription: <amitcp-request@hut.fi>
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