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

[Johnny Billquist]

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

This release contains a lot of fixes and improvements in many areas. 
There is one very serious bug in TCP that is fixed in this release which 
is why I really encourage people to upgrade.


Highlights:

- Stability and reliability improvements in TCP.
- Improved SPOOF detection.
- Improved stability.


Detailed information on things that have been done since the last release:


Installation process:
- The IPGEN script now more smoothly handles updates to an existing 
installation.


Ethernet driver:
- Improved driver reset handling.
- Implemented MTU backoff in ethernet driver, to handle unpatched DEC 
XU: driver.


TCP:
- At socket close time, if there were pending packets to process still 
in the socket, the system pool could become corrupted, causing a crash 
at some random later time.
- Add more spoof processing for suspicious connections.


FTPD:
- Improved error handling for not logged in clients.


HTTP:
- Implemented spoof processing for connections which looks suspicious.


MAILD:
- Implemented spoof processing for connections which looks suspicious.


Mail client:
- Added basic hooks for extending mail to deal with several folders 
(still not complete).


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

The firewall for Mim have now been removed, so no need for the alternate 
ports, but Mim is still listening to the alternate ports as well.
ftp: 10021
telnet: 10023


As a final word about this release. As always things progress with time, 
but I think it's safe to say by now that BQTCP is now a very stable 
TCP/IP with almost all features one can expect. There might always be 
some more work on the lower level protocols, but at this point, expect 
that most work and updates will be more and more on various daemons and 
clients.
If there is anything in particular anyone is looking for, let me know.

	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