[Simh] [SimH] Networking support

Henry Bent henry.r.bent at gmail.com
Sun Mar 13 14:11:43 EDT 2016


Do you have a link to those sources, or could you make them available
somehow?

-Henry

On 13 March 2016 at 05:49, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:

> I have found sources for the BBN stacks I believe. Could not figure out
> how to configure it and SIMH's emulation only speaks one protocol.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 12, 2016, at 14:33, Henry Bent <henry.r.bent at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12 March 2016 at 17:09, Bill Cunningham <billcun at suddenlink.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> *From:* Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com>
>> *To:* Bill Cunningham <billcun at suddenlink.net>
>> *Cc:* SIMH <simh at trailing-edge.com>
>> *Sent:* Saturday, March 12, 2016 3:31 PM
>> *Subject:* Re: [Simh] [SimH] Networking support
>>
>> Bill,
>>
>> You probably need to date things a little and get a some perspective of
>> where a few of us are coming.   Just to set a few lines in the sand.  While
>> 3Mb/s "xerox" ethernet has been around for about 5 years, the
>> DEC/Intel/Xerox Ethernet 10Mb/s spec was published Sep 30, 1980.   Per RFC
>> 801, Arpanet was not officially schedule to switch from the old NCP to IP
>> until Jan 1, 1983 (although a number of folks like me had been working with
>> what would become IP/TCP for 3-4 years before that).
>>
>>     Oh Wow. I have always been told Jan 1st 1981 and they went from "Link
>> Control Protocol" to TCP/IP. Must've been wrong then somebody was.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Looking over RFC 801, it mentions a number of TCP/IP implementations.
> Does anyone know if source has survived for the BBN ones for Unix v6 and
> 4.1BSD?  Or the DCEC one, which I've never heard about?  I'm very
> interested in bringing up TCP/IP support on historic versions of Unix.  I
> have both ARP and non-ARP versions of 4.1C BSD running with a backported
> DEUNA driver, but these would be even older than that.
>
> Are there any plans to support the PDP-11 IMP interface boards in SIMH,
> which would presumably then talk to the h316 simulator?
>
> -Henry
>
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