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From: iversen@dsfys1.fi.uib.no (Per Steinar Iversen)
Subject: ********
Reply-To: iversen@vsfys1.fi.uib.no
Organization: Department of Physics, University of Bergen, Norway
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 15:58:02 GMT



Some days ago I asked in this group about LPD servers for PC-hardware.
A useable package seems to be the "NOS LPD - Line Printer Daemon" by
David E. Johnson (wotk!davidj@uunet.uu.net), release 1.2

I can nearly get this to work, as I can use things like TELNET and FTP
with this package, but it just refuses to accept input on port 515. As far
as I can see the PC have been setup as the manual describes... I have tried
mail to the author, but it bounces. Does anybody have any experience with this
package? Does it really work?

-psi

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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
From: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
Subject: Is VMTP used?
Keywords: RPC VMTP
Reply-To: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 08:18:32 GMT

I am currently planning to RPC's as a means of communicating between
computers. I had thought that I would use UDP mainly, as NFS is one of
the requirements, with TCP as an option. In looking through the RFC for
RPC I noticed a reference to VMTP which the author seems to think is
ideally suited for RPC's, however I have not heard mention of this
protocol previously. My question is therefore does anyone use VMTP for
RPC's ?

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Michael Salmon

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Stockholm
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
From: skl@wimsey.bc.ca (Samuel Lam)
Subject: Re: PCS WITH DUPLICATE TCP ADDRESSES
Reply-To: skl@wimsey.bc.ca (Samuel Lam)
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 20:14:35 GMT

In article <1992Dec19.000209.1@kean.ucs.mun.ca>, wayne@kean.ucs.mun.ca wrote:
>Many times pc users copy the kermit file from their pc around to other 
>machines. One of the files they copy is mskermit.ini that has the tcp 
>address of the person's pc. When that file is copied, the receiving machine 
>also gets the tcp address of the copying machine.

MS-Kermit can use the BOOTP protocol to obtain its IP address from a
server at run-time rather than using an IP address hardwired inside
a local configuration file.  The BOOTP server will hand out an unique
IP address to each machine, usually after using the client machine's
globally unique Ethernet transceiver address as a key to do a table
lookup.

Note that old MSKERMIT.INI files with hardwired IP addresses floating
around on floppies could still cause you problems.

...Sam
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From: wangbs@casd1@casd1.iie.ncku
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: WANTED: tcp/ip development kit....
Date: 16 Dec 92 01:54:00 GMT
Organization: CASD Lab.


  Hi, all :
      Where can I find the tcp/ip development kit ? 
                Thanks for any reponse.
                                        wangbs@locust.iie.ncku.edu.tw
                                    or  wangbs@server2.iie.ncku.edu.tw
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
From: bvs@nrc.com (Bill Versteeg)
Subject: looking for systems with BOOTP server
Summary: need to recommend BOOTP servers to customer
Organization: VerSteeg CodeWorks 
Date: 15 Dec 92 13:57:23 GMT


Hello folks-

I am designing a device that will use bootp to
get some info, then use tftp to download a file
and run. I have a good handle on the client side stuff,
but I can't find stock systems that support running a bootp 
server. I can do it in my lab just
fine, (using the CMU public domain stuff), but 
I hate to recommend this option to customers.
I would prefer a commercially supported product.

So, this is an invitation to vendors of products
that support BOOTP server mode to send me some info (8-)).

Please send blatent plugs to me, not the net. If you have
something the net may be interested in, post away, but please
don't use this note as an exuse to advertise to the net.....

Bill VerSteeg
bvs@ver.com


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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: byron@cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff)
Subject: Re: Netware and TCP/IP
Reply-To: byron@cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 15:40:11 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.132149.5508@linus.mitre.org> Brian Fellows <bdf@mitre.org> writes:
>I am about to add TCP/IP capability to an existing LAN running Netware
>IPX.  I would appreciate any suggestions, advice, recomendations on how
>to run the dual protocol stacks on a single NE2000 NIC.  Would it be less
>expensive or easier to just by a second NIC and run the TCP/IP on the
>other NIC?
>Brian Fellows			bdf@mitre.org
>The MITRE Corporation	617/271-3550

I'll beat Russ to the punch and post his suggestion to me. The key component
here is a interface program (called a shim) between the Novell stuff and
the packet driver. Also by using a program called pktmux it is possible to
have several TCP/IP stacks going on at once. Here is snippet of Russ's
message:

----------------------- Begin Included Text -------------------------------

4. How do you add mail, news, ftp, and telnet to an existing network environment
   Like novell netware ? From what I've read so far you would need the 
   following:

No, like this:

                                  -- Novell shim -- Novell software
                                 /          -- TCP/IP
                                /          /
      hardware -> packet driver -> pktmux 
                                           \
                                            -- possibly other TCP/IP.

You don't need pktmux to run NetWare and TCP/IP at the same time.

----------------------- End Included Text   -------------------------------

Two questions from Byron:
1) Where is the latest copy of the Novell Shim?
2) Can we get a mini tutorial on how it works? Does it encapsulate novell
   packets or just sends the novell packets unchanged and unshielded?

BTW I don't think there is a need to buy another NIC.

BAJ
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Another random extraction from the mental bit stream of...
Byron A. Jeff - PhD student operating in parallel!
Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332   Internet: byron@cc.gatech.edu
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: Bjorn.T.Mykland@tmlh.no (Bjorn Tore Mykland)
Subject: Where I can FTP (autoftp and batchftp) DOS.
Organization: Telemark College of Education
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 10:39:37 GMT


DOS-program !!
--------------

I'm looking for a easy way to download files automaticly from FTP-site.(IBM-
machine)

Question: FTP-Site and IP-nr for downloading programs to solve my problem.
          

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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: lam@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken Lam)
Subject: Re: Transfer Speeds from PC to SPARC 10
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 20:10:03 GMT

uclywss@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Warwick Smith) writes:


>We need to periodically copy 1 gigabyte files from a PC to Sun SPARC 10's.
>NFS, FTP and RCP give painfully slow transfer rates for this size of file,
>typically 85 - 160 kbytes/sec.

>The Sun SPARC 10's are model 30 workstations giving file transfer speeds 
>on local disk of 670 Kbytes/sec, and 1.2 Mbytes/sec between them over 
>the Ethernet using FTP.

>The PC is a 486 33Mhz using a BICC 16 bit Ethernet card with MPS 4.2 
>and PCNFS 4.0. File transfer speed on its local disk is 250 Kbytes/sec


>Can anyone tell me:-

>If it is possible to make such a PC transfer binary files faster to a SPARC 10
>using Ethernet, and if so, how, and what is the maximum transfer rate 
>possible. 500 Kbytes/sec would be the minimum acceptable.

>Are there any products available for sending data from a PC to a SPARC 10
>faster than is possible over Ethernet, and if so what file transfer rate
>could be achieved.

You can install a FDDI card in both the PC and SUN and get ~10MB/s.  

I normally transfer 16MB images from PC<==>Sparc2 and Sparc10 and I get about
1.5MB/s.  I have the WD 16bit cards and just run NCSA FTP.  

Do you have lots of traffic on your ethernet? if so, then you might be able
to install a dedicated NIC not necessarily a FDDI but a dedicated ethernet.


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From: eonu24@castle.ed.ac.uk (I Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Wattcp -> Silicon Graphics: (solution + questions)
Date: 14 Dec 92 16:47:55 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

[In response to my original posting anfd followups]

kev@sol.acs.unt.edu (Kevin W. Mullet) writes:

>>My other question (again Wattcp related) is why does ftp program insist on a
>>password? We have a very small network with no need/desire for password
>>security and it is irritating to start having to use a password on the Silicon
>>Graphics just to allow ftp from the pc. Any ways round this or do I grab the
>>source and code it out?

>   It could be that there is no way to disable the password on FTP access
>   to any account except *anonymous*.  If that network isn't attached
>   to the Internet, and if you must have non-authenticated access for
>   all users for FTP, how about fixing the FTP daemon so it does a
>   chroot(2) to / instead of something else?

Unfortunately not a practical option for us since the workstation doesn't have
a compiler at the moment :-(

>   Even though there might be a way around it, I highly recommend that if
>   this site is attached to the Internet at all (and probably even if it
>   isn't) the downside of having to enter passwords to access the systems
>   is nothing compared to the downside of what could happen without
>   them. Caveat emptor!

I would quite agree and, when the day comes to join the internet (or even a
larger internal network) passwords will be used. In the meantime however it
would be nice to have the pc end ftp agent not insist on a password unless the
remote site asks for one. I haven't dug out the relevant rfc yet but I would
hope there is some kind of feedback... perhaps an agreed "password string
empty" message rather than a "no password required".

Iain Reid
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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: jallard@microsoft.com (James 'J' Allard)
Subject: Re: Winsock available?
Date: 15 Dec 92 21:14:00 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation
Distribution: comp

In article <dhess.724384305@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> dhess@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Drew William Hess) writes:
>Is Winsock available as a DLL anywhere, or is it just (as yet) an API?

Windows Sockets is an API specification. A TCP/IP vendor implements the API
support via a DLL named "winsock.dll" with characteristics specified in the
document. Many vendors are planning support of the Windows Sockets API with
their TCP/IP implementations. Since I have seen postings from most of these
vendors on this group, I will leave it to them to respond with availability
information for their implementation.

Microsoft will offer Windows Sockets support in the "TCP/IP for Windows for
Workgroups" package released early next year. Additionally, both 16- and
32-bit Windows Sockets support will be available in Windows NT.



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Program Manager of TCP/IP Technologies    work: (206)882-8080
Microsoft Corporation                     home: (206)860-8862
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: cccdavid@monet.ucdavis.edu (The Gentleman Loser)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Need tcp/ip library routines
Date: 8 Dec 92 23:42:48 GMT
Organization: Computing Services, UC Davis
Originator: cccdavid@monet.ucdavis.edu


Does anyone have or know of any UNIX like TCP/IP library routines for
the IBM pc.  Or are there any development kits in existence?

	--dave
From: colh@lincoln.gpsemi.com (Colin Helliwell)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: NCSA Telnet with DEC Pathworks
Date: 15 Dec 92 08:32:24 GMT
Organization: GEC Plessey Semiconductors
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X-Xxdate: Tue, 15 Dec 92 09:40:32 GMT
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Does anyone have any experience of using DEC Pathworks (aka PCSA)
software simultaneously with NCSA Telnet ??

I am able to use a slightly out of date version of NCSA (6/27/91) using
the DEC NDIS driver ("Data Link Layer"), or NCSA 2.15b05 (1/3/92) using a
Clarkson packet driver (for my DEC LC100 card), but have been unable to
get both Pathworks and Telnet going together. I suspect its because the
DEC driver re-programs the card with a DECNet ethernet address which the
packet driver can't cope with, but I would welcome any guidance !

An e-mailed response would be preferred if possible.
From: HANS@PINE.CIRCA.UFL.EDU (VAN_OOSTROM)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Winsock available?
Date: 17 Dec 92 21:22:04 GMT
Organization: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

In <VuoXVB1w165w@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> tbenham@cybernet.cse.fau.edu writes:

> 
> How is Windows Sockets different than Berkeley Sockets and why do
> we need it?  How can one obtain doc?

You can ftp the whole document from ftp.uu.net in the
vendors\microsoft\winsocket directory.

Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: smartin@Canada.lsil.com (Stephen Martin)
Subject: Re: PCNFS: Troubles with MS-Windows 3.1
Organization: LSI Logic Corporation of Canada, Inc.
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 13:26:26 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.032256.12891@toolz.uucp> todd@toolz.uucp (Todd Merriman) writes:

   It seems that when I load RTM.EXE, the local printers on
   my Windows machine don't work anymore.  The network printer
   works, however, and the local printers work find under DOS.
   I have found that, if I don't run RTM, then ftp and telnet
   will not work under Windows.

   What gives?

If you bring up the printer manager (I think), and pull up the menu for
networks you should find an option called "print network jobs direct", change
this for your local printer.
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From: colh@lincoln.gpsemi.com (Colin Helliwell)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: NCSA Telnet with DEC Pathworks
Date: 15 Dec 92 18:18:29 GMT
Organization: GEC Plessey Semiconductors
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X-Xxdate: Tue, 15 Dec 92 19:26:38 GMT
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In article <BzAL21.MHt@bailgate.gpsemi.com> Colin Helliwell, I wrote:
>I am able to use a slightly out of date version of NCSA (6/27/91) using
>the DEC NDIS driver ("Data Link Layer"), or NCSA 2.15b05 (1/3/92) using a
>Clarkson packet driver (for my DEC LC100 card), but have been unable to

Two corrections to the above:
- The later version of NCSA Telnet is 2.3.05 (3/1/92)
- The packet driver is a Crynwr driver (depca.com, V10.2)
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GEC Plessey Semiconductors
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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: cychiu@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Chien-yuan  Chiu)
Subject: Re: Dialup SLIP software for PCs?
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 11:11:01 EST

In article <2b286ec7.2d55@lhn.gns.cri.nz> mdlcpgs@lhn.gns.cri.nz writes:
>I cant find an FAQ for this so perhaps someone can answer. I am
>looking for TCP implementation for PCs that will allow a dial-up
>SLIP connection to an Internet host. Have a LAN that needs Internet
>access but cant at this stage get a dedicated line. 
>
>The LAN is Lan Manager 2.1 and uses Microsoft Mail. Can these be used
>to set it up?
>	Thanks, Phil

Me too!

Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: larsj@kih (Lars M. Johansen)
Subject: XVision failure when saving file - HELP !!!
Keywords: XVision,PC/TCP,IslandDraw
Organization: no
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 09:34:14 GMT


I'm running XVision 4.1 with PC/TCP 2.05. Everything runs smoothly, except
when I try to save a file on the X-server (from IslandDraw). I then get the
error message:

	PC/TCP Virtual Device
	Error: Mapping Buffer allocation failed

The X-server aborts the program (IslandDraw) saying that connection is lost,
or something ...

Has anybody had a similar problem? If so, help me, pleeease !!!

  Lars M. Johansen
  Dep. of Physics & Mathematics
  Kongsberg College of Engineering
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: dahsp@aud1.aud.auc.dk (Henrik S. Pedersen)
Subject: bootp, host-name
Keywords: bootp, PC/TCP
Organization: AUD
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 07:44:41 GMT


bootp, configuring host-name in PCTCP.INI.

I am trying to use bootp to configure my PCs from a network
server. I use PC/TCP v. 2.1 on a PC with a 3Com ethernet
board and NDIS driver. According to the manual (page 36-2) 
it should be possible to configure the host-name with bootp.

My bootp installation works almost perfectly, but the bootp 
client from PC/TCP does not update the host-name in the 
section [pctcp general] in PCTCP.INI. Why?

According to RFC1048 the tag number for the client name
is 12. I have tested the reply from the bootp server by
capturing the packet with a LAN analizer. I am sure that
my bootp server complies to RFC951 and RFC1048. The entry
in my bootptab looks like this:

    pchsp:\
    :hn:ht=ether:vm=rfc1048:\
    :ha=02608c4b294a:\
    :ip=129.142.49.183:

The bootp program does not change the host-name entry, but 
the internet address is correctly updated according to this 
table. I have also successfully configured the following 
parameters (not in bootptab at the moment):

	- printer server
	- serial number (tag 131)
	- authentication key (tag 132)

I always call the bootp client on my PC in the following way:

	bootp -f -v

The output from the command is:

MAC/DIS converter
FTP Software PC/TCP bootp Version 2.1  
Copyright (c) 1986-1992 by FTP Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Driver type 57, number 0, level 6 name: ifcust (PC/TCP Generic Ethernet packet driver) initialized
Requesting IP address for Generic Ether interface 02:60:8c:4b:29:4a.
Trying...
BOOTP reply received from 129.142.51.200.
IP address set to 129.142.49.183.
Received RFC 1048 vendor information.

I have sent this question to support@ftp.com, but I haven't got
any answer from FTP software. Is this an error in the bootp
client?


Thanks for any help

Henrik S. Pedersen
Aalborg University Datacenter, Denmark
email dahsp@aud1.aud.auc.dk
From: overberger@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: TCP/IP security and Public Labs
Date: 18 Dec 92 13:54:13 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

Perhaps this is a frequently asked question, but here it is anyway.
As computing sites place (such as a university like ours) PC's and
Mac's directly on network backbones, what types of techniques are
employed to prevent a user from loading their own Telnet executable
and config file with any IP number and Telnet off site without
any user verification ? A router on every station would do it but
at quite a cost. Any ideas are welcome.
 
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: Brian Fellows <bdf@mitre.org>
Subject: Netware and TCP/IP
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X-Xxdate: Thu, 17 Dec 92 13:28:26 GMT
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 13:21:49 GMT

I am about to add TCP/IP capability to an existing LAN running Netware
IPX.  I would appreciate any suggestions, advice, recomendations on how
to run the dual protocol stacks on a single NE2000 NIC.  Would it be less
expensive or easier to just by a second NIC and run the TCP/IP on the
other NIC?
Brian Fellows			bdf@mitre.org
The MITRE Corporation	617/271-3550
From: dlhanson@nap.amoco.com (David L. Hanson )
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: newsreader for PCs, nntp and vmail (PC/TCP)
Keywords: newsreader for PCs
Date: 16 Dec 92 16:43:35 GMT
Organization: These opinions are mine!

In article <dahsp.29.724502483@aud1.aud.auc.dk> dahsp@aud1.aud.auc.dk (Henrik S. Pedersen) writes:
>Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
>Path: apctrc!uc.msc.edu!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!sunic!dkuug!aud.dk!vaxapcnfs.aud.auc.dk!dahsp
>From: dahsp@aud1.aud.auc.dk (Henrik S. Pedersen)
>Subject: newsreader for PCs, nntp and vmail (PC/TCP)
>Message-ID: <dahsp.29.724502483@aud1.aud.auc.dk>
>Keywords: newsreader for PCs 
>Lines: 17
>Sender: news@vaxc.aud.auc.dk (USENET News System)
>Organization: AUD
>Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 10:41:23 GMT
>
>Newsreader for PCs.
>
>I've installed the nntp client and vmail from PC/TCP 
>v. 2.11 (FTP software) on my PC. 
>
>I don't understand why anyone should use this kind of
>newsreader. nntp receives all the articles from the
>news server and stores them on the PC harddisk! 
>
>I suggest FTP software to make a GOOD newsreader (like
>"trumpet"). If you know any reason for using nntp and
>vmail, please reply to:
>
>Henrik S. Pedersen
>Aalborg University Datacenter, Denmark
>
I agree with you.  I was sorely dissappointed in FTP's newsreader when
my upgrade arrived. If you wish to follow more than 1 or 2 groups it is too
unwieldy, too slow, and takes up too much disk space. 

They also have some more work to do on their Windows clients.  For example,
where is the the TN3270 emulation for Windows?  One of the things I really
like about FTP's TN.EXE is that it does both VT and TN3270 emulation 
concurently.  

One thing that I am VERY happy to see is that they have just released their
new development kit with the WINSOCK.DLL.  Finally, our tcp/ip code should
be much more portable.  Thanks, FTP and others for this!

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