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

[Mark Matlock]

Johnny,
     Again thanks for your efforts on BQTCP/IP.!!!

      I do have one minor request. Could you supply a compiled task image for PCL?
 I've been try to install PDP-11C on my 11/83 but the only .TPC tape that is not corrupted is V1.1 and although I have installed it on Simh, my 11/83 needs a .tap tape not .tpc and I have been trying to convert with TPC, but I don't have it done yet.

Thanks and Best Regards,
Mark

> On Oct 20, 2015, at 12:08 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 
> About four months since I last announced anything. There have been various development since, and I figured I should encourage people who are using BQTCP/IP for RSX to upgrade to the latest release.
> 
> A short list of changes:
> 
> TCP:
> . Small bugfixes in various states.
> . Bugfix in window handling. TCP reception could occasionally accept data outside of window.
> . Added ability to dynamically change transmit and receive buffer size.
> . Bugfix. SYN packets could result in lost pool if sockets were closed with outstanding SYN packets queued.
> . Bugfix. If pool is full, system could crash on incoming connections.
> 
> FTP:
> . Added SUMMARY, PROMPT, MGET and MPUT commands.
> . Improved filename parsing and handling for mapping between local and remote filenames.
> . Bugfix. FTP would abort if a long file transfer took place, since the command channel had a timeout.
> . Much improved progress line for file transfers, including ETA and delta between updates.
> 
> FTPD:
> . Bugfix. If a file transfer was followed by an immediate close of the connection, the file could be left in a locked state.
> . Expanded time stamp information in directory listings to include seconds.
> 
> TELNET:
> . Bugfix in telnet options processing.
> 
> TELNETD:
> . Bugfix in telnet options processing.
> 
> IFCONFIG:
> . Added commands for setting default and maximum allowed tcp transmit and receive buffer sizes.
> 
> RMD:
> . Added information on task page about UDP connections.
> 
> TRACERT:
> . Added /NUMERIC switch
> 
> 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
> 
> I believe the state of the code is now good enough that I expect there will be fewer updates to the basic networking drivers in the future. I plan to find some new protocols to work on next, and also improve some of the current clients and servers as the need arises.
> 
> (On a different note, Madame.Update.UU.SE is now a CNAME for Mim.Update.UU.SE, making the naming of the machine consistent between DECnet and TCP/IP, in case someone wonders why the name have changed...)
> 
>    Johnny