Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!apple!constellation!a.cs.okstate.edu!kennejs From: kenn...@a.cs.okstate.edu (KENNEDY JAMES SCOT) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux Subject: TCP/IP support & Linux Message-ID: <1992Jun29.014719.4216@a.cs.okstate.edu> Date: 29 Jun 92 01:47:19 GMT Distribution: na Organization: Oklahoma State University, Computer Science, Stillwater Lines: 19 I understand that support for TCP/IP under Linux is well on its way and is being alpha tested. My question is this: when TCP/IP support is available will it be possible to get NFS and/or RFS for Linux (that is if I can get the code)? Also, what about SLIP? I'm interested in SLIP support because I want to be able to do an X session over a dialup-line. Finally, is the code for rcp, telnet, ftp, ping, etc. widely available and what is my chances of getting any of these programs to work reliably under Linux? Perhaps all of this is too much to ask of a freely distributed UNIX. However, I have heard a lot of good things about Linux and I know that there is a lot of really bright people working on it all the time to make it better. What all would be involved in trying to support all those features I mentioned above? Would it be a gargantuan task or is it within the realm of possibility? Scott Kennedy email: kenn...@a.cs.okstate.edu Oklahoma State University tel : (405) 744-1773
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!morrow.stanford.edu!bir7 From: b...@leland.Stanford.EDU (Ross Biro) Subject: Re: TCP/IP support & Linux Message-ID: <1992Jun29.031431.17711@morrow.stanford.edu> Sender: n...@morrow.stanford.edu (News Service) Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA References: <1992Jun29.014719.4216@a.cs.okstate.edu> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1992 03:14:31 GMT Lines: 28 In article <1992Jun29.014719.4...@a.cs.okstate.edu> kenn...@a.cs.okstate.edu (KENNEDY JAMES SCOT) writes: >I understand that support for TCP/IP under Linux is well on its way >and is being alpha tested. My question is this: when TCP/IP >support is available will it be possible to get NFS and/or RFS for >Linux (that is if I can get the code)? Also, what about SLIP? I'm >interested in SLIP support because I want to be able to do an X >session over a dialup-line. Finally, is the code for rcp, telnet, >ftp, ping, etc. widely available and what is my chances of getting >any of these programs to work reliably under Linux? Here's the current status of Linux. I'm releasing my tcp/ip code tommorrow as alpha code. It will be available only to a few people until I see how it goes. It isn't complete yet, but the tcp/ip seems to work. Udp is still in the works. I've heard that someone else has tcp/ip code which is ahead of mine, but I don't know anything more about it. As for NFS, with VFS and udp/ip it should not be too difficult to port. Slip, CSlip, and other devices will not be hard to add. Right now the biggest problems with the tcp/ip code, are that it does not know how to act like a router, and it does not process ip options. Ross Biro b...@leland.stanford.edu Member League for Programming Freedom (LPF) mail lea...@prep.ai.mit.edu for information -- Ross Biro b...@leland.stanford.edu Member League for Programming Freedom (LPF) mail lea...@prep.ai.mit.edu for information