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- 06/88 REVISION OF KIP (KFPS IP)
-
- The June 1988 revision of KIP is primarily a maintenance release
- providing improved capabilities for UDP port assigments and better
- functionality with non-KIP bridges. In addition, KIP now prints out a
- version number when starting up.
-
- UDP PORT ASSIGNMENTS
-
- Previous revisions of KIP used a range of UDP ports started at 768 to
- map the "well known" DDP sockets from 0 to 127. This was done to
- allow a fixed mapping from the DDP socket well known space to the well
- known UDP port space.
-
- In April, 1988, the NIC assigned a number of ports:
- 201 - AT-RMTP - AppleTalk Routing Maintenance
- 202 - AT-NBP - AppleTalk Name Binding
- 203 - AT-3 - AppleTalk Unused
- 204 - AT-ECHO - AppleTalk Echo
- 205 - AT-5 - AppleTalk Unused
- 206 - AT-ZIS - AppleTalk Zone Information
- 207 - AT-7 - AppleTalk Unused
- 208 - AT-8 - AppleTalk Unused
- for this purpose.
-
- Note that there are 126 (0 is invalid) ddp well known sockets to map
- to space of 8 udp ports. DDP Ports 1 through 63 are reservered for
- use by Apple and new assignments for these will be applied for as they
- are put into use by Apple. DDP ports 64 through 127 are designated
- for experimental use only.
-
- KIP now allows the specification of a different start range of UDP
- ports to accomodate these new assignments. It does not check to see
- if the ports have been assigned. You should be warned that it can
- conceivably use the UDP ports rangestart+1 through rangestart+127.
- However, in practice, only the "named" ports (e.g. at-nbp, etc) will
- be used unless you use the experimental ports which probably isn't
- recommended in any event.
-
- To do this, an unused field on the Kinetics box configuration is used
- (right after the ethertalk specification). A value of 0 implies the
- mappings starting at 768. A value of 200 specifies the NIC assigned
- values. WARNING: use of any other start values is NOT recommended.
-
- atalkad will warn of conflicting port usages between different
- Kinetics boxes in the same atalkatab.
-
- CAP 5.0 is configured to use the new port mappings by added specified
- names to /etc/services. In particular, it looks for the following
- "official service names":
- at-nbp, at-rtmp, at-echo, at-zip
- by using getservbyname. (man getservent for more information).
-
-
- NON-KIP BRIDGE FUNCTIONALITY
-
- Revisions of KIP prior to 6/88 had a tough time with non-KIP bridges.
- This was especially true of KIP 9/87. The problem was in the fact
- that KIP did not do Zone acquistions on routes. As of KIP 6/88 zone
- acquisitions are done.
-
- VERSION
-
- KIP now prints out a version number along with the number of buffers,
- etc. when it starts up. This is viewable from Prompt's (2.0 or later)
- "Show Diagnostics".
-
-
- OTHER CHANGES
-
- EtherTalk length was getting reset in the wrong way.
-
- Allzones was on for "unknown" zones.
-
- FILES MODIFIED OR ADDED
-
- README
- Makefile
- conf.h
- glob.h
- gw.c
- gw.h
- gw2.c
- gwctl.h
- ie.c
- kfpsversion.h
- rtmp.c
- doc/README
- doc/rev0688
- doc/install
- etc/atalkad.c
- etc/atalkatab
-