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

[Johnny Billquist]

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

This is a release that mainly address a couple of potential bugs that 
have been identified and fixed in the TCP layer. I strongly encourage 
people to upgrade to the latest version to get these fixes, since they 
can otherwise cause system crashes.

Things that have been done since the last release:

TCP:
- Several bugfixes which could cause kernel memory corruption under some 
circumstances. Mostly a problem with slow machines and high volumes of 
network traffic.

DHCP:
- Changed DHCP to not print anything in case a plain renewal of the 
current IP address is done.

HTTP:
- Bugfix in the HTTP daemon, which could report incorrect times for last 
modify for files under some circumstances.

TELNETD:
- Changed code to to explicit push after I/O requests are complete, 
which improves performance.


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

As Mim is behind a firewall, which at the moment is blocking incoming 
ftp and telnet (we are working on getting that removed again), an 
alternative is to connect to Mim as Mim.Update.UU.SE:10021 (for ftp) and 
Mim.Update.UU.SE:10023 (for telnet).
(Guess why the ability to listen to multiple ports for telnet, as well 
as being able to give a port argument to ftp came about... ;-) )

	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