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

Wed Jul 1 18:32:21 EDT 2015

Indeed. I meant apart from your own.

Mike
On Jul 1, 2015 5:24 PM, "Johnny Billquist" <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

> 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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