[Search for users] [Overall Top Noters] [List of all Conferences] [Download this site]

Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

1175.0. "TCP/IP for the AMIGA" by COOKIE::WECKER (A wholly owned subsidiary of DEC) Tue Feb 16 1988 19:12

What I've been hacking with lately:

I've been playing with the (read: rewriting major sections :-) of the KA9Q PD
TCP/IP package. TCP/IP is the network protocol used by U**X systems (analogous
to DECNET). The standard applications that run on top of it are:

	TELNET	- remote login (like "set host")
	FTP	- remote file transfers (like FAL)
	SMTP	- simple mail transfer protocol
	ECHO	- remote loopback
	DISCARD	- remote trashcan
	...	- lots of others (rlogin, rsh, rcat ...)

What makes this interesting is that you can hook up your Amiga to a host and
do SIMULTANEOUSLY any number of the above. In fact I uploaded the .ARC file
for the kit while I was writing the text of this note!

Anyhow, I now have a TCP/IP implementation up and running on the AMIGA. It
supports the above mentioned applications and has two physical layer protocols
supported:

	aX.25	- Amateur radio version of X.25 protocol
	SLIP	- Serial Line Interface Protocol

The first allows you to talk over ham (packet) radio. The second lets you talk
over serial lines to other machines running SLIP (like U**X hosts).

If you are interested, see conference (FROBUS::)HAMRADIO note 783.*

NOTE:	I DO NOT have VMS code for the host side and the ULTRIX code is not
	yet releasable. What I am shooting for is to interface this Amiga
	code with the SLIP code that is being offically released under
	ULTRIX V2.4.

Regards,
dave (KK3B)

T.RTitleUserPersonal
Name
DateLines
1175.1another wonde from wecker...but what about VMS??MVCAD3::BAEDERD. Scott DTN 237-2961 SHR1-3/E19Tue Feb 16 1988 19:3412
    dave...this is great for those who have access to ultrix...but how
    about the rest of us  :-(  what about this vms code...any plans???
    
    inquiring minds want to know....
    
    (actually, I often get so used to multitasking, that I'd like to
    upload/do other work over a single phone line!...now if I can just
    remember that I can't pick up the phone to dial for pizza while
    DL'ing, I'll be all set...:-)
    
    scott.
    
1175.2COOKIE::WECKERA wholly owned subsidiary of DECTue Feb 16 1988 20:246
re:	.1

Scott:	Don't despair... once the ULTRIX version works reasonably well I
	will be taking a look at Asyncronous DECNET.