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

[Boyanich, Alastair]

Thanks for the effort Johnny!

#.tap url tells me to fornicate elsewhere.

Should be able to get the .dsk up inside simh and ftp it across.

Regards,
Al.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Johnny Billquist
Sent: Sunday, 13 March 2016 12:41 AM
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE; Info-PDP11 at dbit.com; SIMH
Subject: [HECnet] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

Time for a new release announcement of TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS.

Several fixes and improvements have been made since the last announcement.

Things that have been done since the last release:

IP:
- Bugfix: If a packet is received which have less data than the indicated length in the IP header, the packet was not freed, causing memory to be lost, eventually leading to memory exhaustion.

TCP:
- Improvement: When Files-11 functions are used, and an ANSI filename is given for the remote host, previously the filename block was corrupted which caused programs like PIP to display garbage filenames on errors.
TCP now creates an artificial filename that is based on the resulting IP address.

DECnet-over-IP:
- Added network counters for lines and circuits.
- Improved error checking in the MNC configuration program.

RMD:
- Expanded fields to be able to display larger numbers, which previously were truncated.

HTTP:
- Added Content-Length: header to responses when the size can be found.
This can cost in performance for some files, but improve transfer performance for some files. Check the documentation.
- Bugfix: 301 responses (redirects) held an empty Content-type: header that has been removed.

FTP:
- Bugfix: Files were not transferred correctly in binary mode.
- Bugfix: File protection handling was broken for RSX mode.
- Improvement: Files are now pre-allocated when received, based on the size reported by the SIZE command.

FTPD:
- Bugfix: Files were not transferred correctly in binary mode.
- Bugfix: File protection handling was broken for RSX mode.

NTPDATE:
- Improvement: NTPDATE can now run as a daemon on a regular basis, meaning it will keep time correct over long times. See documentation.

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

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Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
                                   ||  on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se             ||  Reading murder books
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