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- From: bir7@leland.Stanford.EDU (Ross Biro)
- Newsgroups: comp.archives
- Subject: [comp.os.linux] Beta TCP/IP
- Followup-To: comp.os.linux
- Date: 2 Sep 1992 00:19:59 GMT
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
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- Approved: adam@soda.berkeley.edu
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- Summary: kernel tcp/ip now in beta testing
- X-Original-Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- X-Original-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 23:38:06 GMT
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- Archive-name: auto/comp.os.linux/Beta-TCP-IP
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- At long last kernel tcp/ip is now ready for beta testing.
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- It is available at nic.funet.fi in Linux/kernel/NET and will soon
- be available at tsx-11.mit.edu.
-
- If you have not installed networking on a Unix box before, please find
- someone who has before flooding the net with questions.
-
- Currently only the Western Digital Ethercard Plus and compatibles
- are supported (wd80[01]3 boards). If you have a different ethernet
- board you will either have to write your own driver or wait until
- someone else does (There is someone who claims to be working on
- drivers for many different ethernet boards.) If you want slip
- you will have to wait (There is a slip mailing list for people
- interested in working on it.)
-
- REMEBER ONLY THE WESTERN DIGITAL BOARDS ARE SUPPORTED.
-
- Read the README file BEFORE attemptint to install anything.
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- You will need gcc 2.2.2d to compile programs which use inet sockets.
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- You will need the gcc 2.2.2 libs to run the programs which come with
- the tcp/ip code.
-
- Currently all the clients and servers that come with the code are
- buggy, and should be replaced as soon as possible. Source code
- is available from anywhere that has the berkeley net2 (or BIND) code.
-
- ONLY TCP and UDP are supported. Although there are provisions for two
- other protocolos THEY ARE UNSUPPORTED AND WILL PROBABLY CRASH YOUR
- MACHINE IF YOU USE THEM.
-
- You may need 4 meg to run the tcp/ip code (At least with the SCSI code
- compiled in. There may be conflicts with the scsi code.)
-
- The diffs are against .97 pl2 so you will need to have applied both
- patches 1 and 2 to .97 inorder to apply the tcp/ip diffs.
-
- The code is beta and has bugs, but most of the problems you will see
- are in the clients and servers. VERIFY THAT YOUR PROBLEM IS IN THE
- KERNEL CODE BEFORE MAKING A BUG REPORT. The best way to do this
- is to write a small program which can repeat the bug.
-
- Someone else will have to gather together and package new versions
- of all the clients and servers once people have debugged them.
-
- Now for some highlites
-
- The code makes all other implementations of tcp/ip for pc's look
- anemic. FTP transfer rates of 200-300 Kbytes/second have been
- reported by the alpha testers. (One person has reported peaks
- of 500 Kbytes/second sending with ftp.) You mileage will vary.
-
- For most user programs the socket interface is BSD compatible.
-
- No NET2 code is in the kernel. I did not even look at the NET2 code
- while I was implementing this so the AT&T lawsuit against BSDI should
- not have any affect on this code.
-
- Named and the resolver are supported.
-
- A machine can have multiple IP addresses and respond differently to each
- one.
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