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

[Johnny Billquist]

Thanks for the report. I hadn't thought about that scenario. Hmm. I 
guess I need to make TELCOM always use the same space no matter how many 
terminals you use, to make it easy to change the number of terminals 
easily. (The size currently changes depending on the number of terminals.)
Yes, for now, you'll need to rebuild TELNETD, sorry. I'll work out a fix 
for it, to be included. Thinking about it, I wonder if I couldn't just 
create TELCOM on the fly instead...

Thanks, some work to do here, I realize.

	Johnny


On 2015-12-24 03:01, John Forecast wrote:
> Johnny,
>     I installed this version of your code and had a problem with
> TELNETD. Because I had changed the number of supported terminals (from
> 10 to 4) I got
>
> INS -- Length mismatch common block TELCOM
>
> while trying to install TELNETD. Looks like you’ll need to rebuild it as
> part of the install.
>
>    John.
>
> On Dec 18, 2015, at 11:52 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se
> <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>> wrote:
>>
>> Well, about two months since my last announcement, and some
>> improvements have been done, so I figured I should do another one.
>>
>> I've cut a new release of TCP/IP for RSX, and I encourage everyone to
>> update to this latest release.
>>
>> A short list of changes since my last release:
>>
>> TCP:
>> . Performance improvements. TCP timers have been redesigned for better
>> performance. This gave FTP a performance increase of about 15$.
>> . TCP negative ACK detection has been improved.
>> , TCP receive packet handling have been redesigned for better
>> performance, and better code structure.
>> . Added guards against data received after FIN.
>> . Bugfix in SPOOF hostname printouts when filter was cleared.
>> . Bugfix in tcp timers that could cause a close to take a very
>> long time to clean up.
>>
>> FTP:
>> . Bugfix in user verification code which could cause program
>> to crash. This affected ftpd.
>> . Changed ftp and ftpd to create files without max record length when
>> dealing with binary files.
>>
>> TELNET:
>> . Added exit handler to telnetd, so that telnetd cannot be aborted
>> while active sessions exist.
>>
>> HTTPD:
>> . Improved webserver handling of binary files.
>>
>> 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
>

-- 
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