[Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

Wed Jul 1 17:19:27 EDT 2015

On 2015-07-01 23:08, Michael Kerpan wrote:
> This looks very cool. I wonder when the first web server running this
> stack will come online. I also notice the presence of an IRC client. Has
> anyone tried to chat from a PDP-11 yet?

You mean apart from mine, as Madame.Update.UU.SE is already serving 
web-pages, and is running this software.
Yes, I use that IRC client myself every day.

(I'm also running this on a real 11/93 at home, by the way. Speed is 
pretty ok.)

	Johnny

>
> Mike
>
> On Jun 30, 2015 7:46 AM, "Johnny Billquist" <bqt at softjar.se
> <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>> wrote:
>
>     I'm happy to announce a new release of TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS.
>
>     Since I'm broadening the scope of the announcement slightly, a more
>     complete list of features is included, and not just what changed
>     since last. For anyone who is currently running TCP/IP for RSX, I
>     strongly encourage you to update to this latest version. Several
>     improvements have gone in in the last couple of weeks. Most
>     important change is that there now is telnet support, both client
>     and server side.
>
>     The TCP/IP for RSX that I've written is sometimes referred to as
>     BQTCP/IP, just to make clear that it is a different product than
>     Process Software's TCPWARE, or JSA's TCP/IP.
>
>     BQTCP/IP is a rather feature rich TCP/IP implementation, which also
>     comes with libraries for various high level languages. The API is
>     not compatible, even at the source level, with Unix, but on the
>     other hand, if people write some code, they will see that it is a
>     very easy API to work with. The reasons for the incompatibilities
>     are several, including both resource concerns and differences
>     between how RSX works and Unix like operating systems.
>
>     BQTCP/IP has tried to comply with all relevant RFCs, but I'm sure
>     there are corners where it does not do things right. It also does
>     not demand much resources. It do require RSX-11M-PLUS with split I/D
>     space, and it has only been tested properly on RSX-11M-PLUS V4.6. It
>     should work on any version 4 release of RSX-11M-PLUS, but there
>     might be a couple of tweaks or fixes needed.
>
>     BQTCP/IP is distributed in binary form, so very little compilation
>     is required to get it up and running. However, pretty much all
>     utilities do come with sources. The actual TCP/IP stack sources are
>     not included. I do not have a good setup for distributing them in a
>     sane way, and it has had a low priority on my list of things to do.
>     But I do not mind distributing the sources as a general principle.
>
>     All that said, BQTCP/IP current supports the following protocols:
>
>     o Ethernet and loopback interfaces.
>     o ARP. BQTCP/IP can use Ethernet in co-existance with DECnet, or
>        standalone using the provided Unibus ethernet device driver.
>     o IP. The largest IP packets supported are approximately
>        8KB.
>     o ICMP.
>     o UDP. The largest UDP packets supported are approximately
>        8KB.
>     o TCP. The window is approximately 8KB in size, and TCP do
>        manage out of order packets in an efficient way.
>
>     BQTCP/IP supports the following applications:
>     o DHCP. DHCP can be used to configure interface addresses, network
>        masks, default gateways, DNS servers and NTP servers dynamically.
>     o NTP. NTP can be used to set the local time.
>     o TELNET. The TELNET server hooks in to the standard TT: terminal
>        driver, and the number of terminals to create is configurable.
>        The TELNET client can be used to connect to other systems.
>     o FTP. The FTP server can serve all kind of files to other RSX
>        systems, and can serve text and binary files to any system.
>        The FTP client can retrieve RSX format files from RSX servers,
>        and text, binary and block format files from any system.
>     o TFTP. The TFTP server and client can be used for simpler file
>        transfer operations.
>     o RWHOD. RWHOD is a program that reports current users and uptime
>        from RSX, for other systems to collect.
>     o IRC. IRC is a program to communicate with other users around
>        the world.
>     o IRCBOT. IRCBOT is a small example robot program connecting to IRC
>        and performing a service for IRC users.
>     o PCL. PCL is a protocol for printing, used by HP (and other) printers
>        over a network. The PCL implementation in BQTCP/IP appears as a
>        print symbiont, which you can create a printer queue for.
>     o WWW. WWW (or World Wide Web) is a service that can present hypertext
>        information to clients. The WWW server in BQTCP/IP also supports CGI,
>        which makes it possible to create dynamic content.
>     o DNS. BQTCP/IP have DNS implemented as an ACP, that anyone can query
>        to get translations between IP addresses and domain names. It also
>        supports different users using different name servers, or private
>        translations.
>     o SINK. A standard TCP service.
>     o ECHO. A standard TCP service.
>     o DAYTIME. A standard TCP service.
>     o QUOTD. A standard TCP service.
>     o IDENTD. A standard TCP service.
>
>     BQTCP/IP also have automatic IP spoof detection and prevention.
>
>     Additional tools are IFCONFIG, PING, TRACEROUTE, NETSTAT as well as
>     two new pages for RMD.
>
>     High level language libraries exists for BASIC+2, PDP-11 C and
>     FORTRAN-77.
>
>     I'm sure I have forgotten a thing or three, but that's a fairly
>     comprehensive list.
>
>     The documentation is a weak point, but there is hopefully enough
>     documentation to get people running, and I am happy to answer any
>     questions, or give support if needed. BQTCP/IP is already running on
>     the internet, and have been for a while. People who are curious to
>     check it out can ether look at http://madame.update.uu.se/, or
>     telnet to telnet://madame.update.uu.se <http://madame.update.uu.se>
>     and login as user GUEST with password GUEST, or use ftp against
>     ftp://madame.update.uu.se. Anonymous ftp account exist.
>
>     As usual, the distribution is available from:
>     ftp://madame.update.uu.se/bqtcp.dsk
>     ftp://madame.update.uu.se/bqtcp.tap
>     ftp://ftp.update.uu.se/pub/pdp11/rsx/tcpip/tcpip.dsk
>
>     The .tap file is an RSX virtual tape. It is only possible to
>     download and use if you are using FTP from anther RSX system and
>     fetch the file. The .dsk files are virtual RL02 images that are
>     useful both from within RSX as well as through emulators.
>
>     The documentation is also available through ftp on Madame, or also
>     at http://madame.update.uu.se/tcpipdoc
>
>          Johnny
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