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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2017-09-18 02:35, Boyanich, Alastair wrote:
> 
> Nm.. found it. Sorry. Seems to be case sensitive.

Eh... Not a chance. It's on an RSX machine, which have no clue about 
case sensitive filenames... :-)

   Johnny

> 
> Al.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Boyanich, Alastair
> Sent: Monday, 18 September 2017 10:02 AM
> To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
> Subject: RE: [HECnet] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS
> 
> 
> Hi Johnny,
> 
> Is the .tap available?
> 
> I find this the easiest to get across to the 11/83 from the vax with the tape drive.
> 
> Best Wishes,
> Al
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Johnny Billquist
> Sent: Sunday, 3 September 2017 8:32 PM
> To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE; Info-PDP11 at dbit.com; SIMH <simh at trailing-edge.com>
> Subject: [HECnet] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS
> 
> 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. I really encourage people to upgrade, as some of these changes can have a noticeable impact on stability.
> 
> 
> Highlights:
> 
> - Distribution now includes the PDP-11 C and BASIC+2 resident libraries, so that various tools and utilities that are built against them can be installed even if the full language is not installed on a system.
> - Improved stability.
> 
> 
> Detailed information on things that have been done since the last release:
> 
> 
> Ethernet driver:
> - The ethernet driver could under some overload situations become deaf, and not receive any more packets.
> 
> 
> TCP:
> - TCP FIN handling. Under some circumstances, TCP could get into a state where both sides would be sending FIN packets, and not acknowledging the other sides FIN.
> - TCP sequence handling. Under some circumstances, TCP packets with bad sequence numbers could be accepted as valid packets.
> - IO.KIL function for normal TCP ports removed. It turned out that it was very undesirable to process IO.KIL for connected sockets. (A separate function with the same effect does exist.)
> - Added counted for rejected TCP SYN packets.
> - Improved task activation code for TCP daemons.
> 
> 
> HTTP:
> - Improved logging.
> 
> 
> MAILD:
> - Improved new mail notification handling.
> - Correct handling of EHLO/HELO for SMTP.
> - Implemented proper MAIL11 protocol, version 3.
> - Rewritten address rewrite logic to better process both SMTP and MAIL11 addresses.
> 
> 
> MAIL:
> - Simple mail client now exist.
> 
> 
> Libraries:
> - Unified user lookup functions. User lookups now happen both on lastname, UIC, SID and login directory. This is used both by MAIL, FTP and HTTP.
> 
> 
> 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
> 
>          Johnny
> 
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-- 
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