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

[Johnny Billquist]

By the way, a different comment...

On 2015-10-21 04:48, Mark Matlock wrote:
> 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.

What you should do here is to make a virtual tape inside RSX, on the 
system where you have the tape. The you ftp that tape image over to your 
other systems, and use VCP inside RSX to deal with tapes...

So, on your simh machine - use VCP to make a copy of the tape. The 
transfer this image over to the other RSX system, using FTP (or DECnet). 
Then use VCP on this other system to mount the virtual tape, and off you go.

	Johnny

>
> 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


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