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- From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
- Subject: Re: TCP-IP implemented in Streams ?
- Message-ID: <s6n7d20@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <1992Nov10.110517.5650@ccsun7.csie.nctu.edu.tw> <STEINAR.HAUG.92Nov10155519@delab.sintef.no>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:37:30 GMT
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- In article <STEINAR.HAUG.92Nov10155519@delab.sintef.no>, Steinar.Haug@delab.sintef.no (Steinar Haug) writes:
- > > Is there anybody who knows that if the TCP/IP in Sun O.S. Release 4.1.1
- > > is implemented in Streams mechanism ?
- >
- > No, the SunOS 4.1.1 TCP/IP is basically a Berkeley (i.e. socket) based
- > implementation, with streams layered on top of sockets.
- >
- > Solaris 2.0 is a native streams implementation, with (as far as I know)
- > sockets layered on top of streams.
-
-
- I don't know about Solaris 2.0. However, the TCP in SVR4.1 and beyond
- seems to be a combination of versions of 4.3BSD around the net-1 release
- that have been "stream-ized." This observation is based on side-by-side
- comparisons of the source.
-
-
- Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com
-