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

[Johnny Billquist]

And oops. A small error managed to sneak by causing WWW to sometimes 
crash with a memory error when a bad request comes in.

Fixed, and a new dist have been cut and uploaded. Please update again if 
you already managed to dpwnload it since the announcement, but before now.

   Johnny

On 2017-10-08 21:34, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 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
> 


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Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
                                   ||  on a psychedelic trip
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