Hey guys,
After a prolonged absence during a particularly crap job in Qatar I?m finally able to do fun DECNET stuff again.
Anything of interest happening lately? Is there a new mail gateway? If not, I?ve got Multinet running on one of my nodes but have no idea of how to set it up to be a mail gateway - so if someone is interested in helping me out, I?m happy to use LABVAX for that..
Sampsa
VCF East is April 15-17. That's just 2 months away! Who's going? Do we have a plan? Last year DEC was well represented. This year could be even better! I am starting to put some things together. Hopefully we can connect to the HECnet backbone. My site will provide both Multinet and bridge links into HECnet as necessary.
-Steve
While looking for DECnet documents, I noticed that there's a very large collection at http://manx.classiccmp.org/collections/antonio/dec/ . Probably not news to many, but in case some had not seen it...
Among other things, there are two CD collections MDS-1997-10 and MDS-2000-01. The former contains a rather obscure document, the DECnet Phase IV Token Ring datalink spec. That also includes the Phase IV routing layer tweaks necessary to support token ring -- or other datalinks if you don't want to use the AA-00-04-00 prefix.
paul
Hello group
I'm currently setting up Stephen Hoffman's NEWUSER new user registration
system and as part of this I need to configure MULTINET to be able to
send SMTP emails. I'd like to do that by using google mail as a
forwarding service - does anyone have the necessary configuration
information I'd require?
I'd also like to be able to receive emails direct to the box, but this
is a secondary requirement. I do have a linux server available running
ubuntu that could act as a forwarding service if that's an easier setup.
The plan, which is now coming to fruition, is to start a UK based public
access Alpha and VAX cluster. It's getting close now!
Cheers, Mark
Time for a new release announcement of TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS.
A couple of important fixes have been done since the last release.
Things that have been done since the last release:
TCP:
- Bugfix: If a socket was reused after closing down, without the
application doing a close, the sequence number from the previous
connection was reused. It should be reinitialized every time a session
is set up.
DECnet-over-IP:
- Bugfix: If a connection over TCP got out of sync it could go into an
unrecoverable state.
- (Also note that DECnet-over-IP could reuse connections that were shut
down without closing them, thus the fix to TCP mentioned above
specifically affects DECnet-over-IP.)
HTTP:
- Added If-Modified-Since and If-Unmodified-Since parsing and handling.
- Added a default mapping for users that do not have a PUBLIC.TXT file.
- Improved installation to not overwrite configuration for HTTPD.
- Reworked the CGI interface so that it now handles multipart posts.
This means it can be used for uploads and all kind of complex forms.
- Added a [CGIDEMO] directory with some example programs on how to use CGI.
- Added some library functions to IND to handle the CGI interface.
- Changed HTTP server to use a logical name for the configuration directory.
FTPD:
- Improved logging.
As usual, the distribution is available from:
ftp://mim.update.uu.se/bqtcp.dsk
ftp://mim.update.uu.se/bqtcp.tap
ftp://ftp.update.uu.se/pub/pdp11/rsx/tcpip/tcpip.dsk
The documentation is also available through ftp on Mim, or also at
http://mim.update.uu.se/tcpipdoc
Note! I've realized that BQTCP/IP do not work right if you have a
PDP-11/74 with multiple processors online. I'll fix that at some point,
as it's probably just a case of affinity not being set on devices, nor
relevant processes. This might only be a problem with telnet in fact. I
know for sure that the IP and TCP drivers works ok in multiprocessor
systems.
Johnny
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
Time for a new release announcement of TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS.
Several fixes and improvements have been made since the last announcement.
Things that have been done since the last release:
IP:
- Bugfix: If a packet is received which have less data than the
indicated length in the IP header, the packet was not freed, causing
memory to be lost, eventually leading to memory exhaustion.
TCP:
- Improvement: When Files-11 functions are used, and an ANSI filename is
given for the remote host, previously the filename block was corrupted
which caused programs like PIP to display garbage filenames on errors.
TCP now creates an artificial filename that is based on the resulting IP
address.
DECnet-over-IP:
- Added network counters for lines and circuits.
- Improved error checking in the MNC configuration program.
RMD:
- Expanded fields to be able to display larger numbers, which previously
were truncated.
HTTP:
- Added Content-Length: header to responses when the size can be found.
This can cost in performance for some files, but improve transfer
performance for some files. Check the documentation.
- Bugfix: 301 responses (redirects) held an empty Content-type: header
that has been removed.
FTP:
- Bugfix: Files were not transferred correctly in binary mode.
- Bugfix: File protection handling was broken for RSX mode.
- Improvement: Files are now pre-allocated when received, based on the
size reported by the SIZE command.
FTPD:
- Bugfix: Files were not transferred correctly in binary mode.
- Bugfix: File protection handling was broken for RSX mode.
NTPDATE:
- Improvement: NTPDATE can now run as a daemon on a regular basis,
meaning it will keep time correct over long times. See documentation.
As usual, the distribution is available from:
ftp://mim.update.uu.se/bqtcp.dsk
ftp://mim.update.uu.se/bqtcp.tap
ftp://ftp.update.uu.se/pub/pdp11/rsx/tcpip/tcpip.dsk
The documentation is also available through ftp on Mim, or also at
http://mim.update.uu.se/tcpipdoc
Note! I've realized that BQTCP/IP do not work right if you have a
PDP-11/74 with multiple processors online. I'll fix that at some point,
as it's probably just a case of affinity not being set on devices, nor
relevant processes. This might only be a problem with telnet in fact. I
know for sure that the IP and TCP drivers works ok in multiprocessor
systems.
Johnny
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
Back in the day I used custom kernel configurations for DECnet under linux.
Am I right in thinking that the kernel drivers have been pulled and
support is now in user land?
Thanks, Mark.
From: Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com>
>Does anyone know where one could acquire DECNET for RT-11?
A list member has it, or has said so in the past anyway, but at
this point I'm thinking maybe they don't want to give it out?
I've always wanted to try it too. My understanding is that it's
from pre-Ethernet days so it requires a DMR-11 or DMC-11 (or
emulation thereof).
Re TCP/IP for RT-11 -- what's wrong with Alan Baldwin's package?
I haven't gone to shop-pdp.kent.edu in eons and don't know if it's
still around (the domain name still exists but at least right now
I can ping it but not connect any other way), but I was very
impressed with it.
John Wilson
D Bit
