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

[Johnny Billquist]

John, I've rewritten that part now. It no longer asks for the number of 
terminals at IPGEN. Instead you have a new logical name, 
TELNET$TERMINALS, for which you have a prototype in the IPAPPL.NEW file, 
that you can copy. This logical name now controls how many terminals are 
created.

Could you (or someone else) test and report if I got anything wrong in 
the installation procedure?

	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