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

[John Forecast]

I just tried adding “.ifact telnet abo telnet” to IPREM and there was no delay during shutdown.

  John.

> On Jan 1, 2016, at 2:47 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> The turning off of TCP/IP is a big kludgy, and do not properly handle if there are active connections.
> 
> I would, in general, recommend that you just leave TCP/IP alone, and it will stop when the system halts.
> 
> One day I'll get around to "fix" that part, but it's a low priority thing.
> 
> If you want it to shut down cleanly, you need to check with NETSTAT/ALL, and the list needs to be totally empty before you run IPREM.
> 
> 	Johnny
> 
> On 2016-01-01 19:28, John Forecast wrote:
>> Johnny,
>>     Thanks for fixing the TELNETD configuration issue, it’s working
>> fine now. I have one additional problem during shutdown when IPREM is
>> called from lb:[1,2]shutup.cmd I get the following error:
>> 
>> >ifc stop
>> 
>> Stopping IP.
>> 
>> Stopping UD.
>> 
>> TC not running..
>> 
>> >abo ethacp
>> 
>> TCP/IP - ethernet ACP exiting...
>> 
>> 
>> and the subsequent “con off tc:” hangs up for several minutes before
>> timing out:
>> 
>> >con off tc:
>> 
>> CON -- Command execution error.
>> Timeout on unit quieting operation
>> OFFLINETC0:
>>  >unl if:/vec
>> 
>> I’m running M+ 4.6 on an emulated 11/93 with DECnet enabled. Up until
>> the shutdown everything appeared to be running - I was able to
>> successfully telnet into the system. Let me know if you need any more
>> information.
>> 
>>   John.
>> 
>>> On Dec 29, 2015, at 9:12 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se
>>> <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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$TERMINALS, for which you have a prototype in the IPAPPL.NEW
>>> file, that you can copy. This logical name now controls how many
>>> terminals are created.
>>> 
>>> Could you (or someone else) test and report if I got anything wrong in
>>> the installation procedure?
>>> 
>>> Johnny
>>> 
>>> On 2015-12-24 03:01, John Forecast wrote:
>>>> Johnny,
>>>>   I installed this version of your code and had a problem with
>>>> TELNETD. Because I had changed the number of supported terminals (from
>>>> 10 to 4) I got
>>>> 
>>>> INS -- Length mismatch common block TELCOM
>>>> 
>>>> while trying to install TELNETD. Looks like you’ll need to rebuild it as
>>>> part of the install.
>>>> 
>>>>  John.
>>>> 
>>>> On Dec 18, 2015, at 11:52 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se
>>>> <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>
>>>> <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Well, about two months since my last announcement, and some
>>>>> improvements have been done, so I figured I should do another one.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I've cut a new release of TCP/IP for RSX, and I encourage everyone to
>>>>> update to this latest release.
>>>>> 
>>>>> A short list of changes since my last release:
>>>>> 
>>>>> TCP:
>>>>> . Performance improvements. TCP timers have been redesigned for better
>>>>> performance. This gave FTP a performance increase of about 15$.
>>>>> . 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 <mailto: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