[mod.protocols] TCP/IP software for PC

murakami@nttlab.UUCP (Kenbo MURAKAMI) (06/09/86)

 I know some TCP/IP software products for PC. As far as I know, the
following softwares are available.

(1) MIT version (MicroComputer Center, Software Sales and Application)
(2) Spartacus's KNET TCP/IP
(3) FTP Sofware, Inc.

Which product should I buy? The product will be mainly used for network
checking, network-watch etc. I need some facilities for testing TCP/IP
software which is now being developed on my special machine named ELIS, the
fastest personal LISP machine in the world. ELIS will be released in a few
months. 
Anyway, please let me know also other products for these purposes. I am
developing TCP/IP for Version-1 Ethernet. I know YHP's LAN-protocol-analyzer
4971s, but it is only for Version-2 Ethernet in Japan.

					KEN

nowicki%rose@SUN.COM (Bill Nowicki) (06/10/86)

	The product will be mainly used for network checking,
	network-watch etc.

The 3.0 release of software from Sun included two programs that we use
heavily for network management.  The "traffic" program includes a menu
interface, and draws real-time graphs of various network usage
statistics.  There is also a program called "etherfind" that has an
interface like Unix "find" which we use to get packet traces to debug
protocols.  

This is just some of the software included in a Sun-3/50 for list price
$7900.  Also, expect an official announcement of the MS-DOS TCP/IP/NFS
that was demonstrated in February by a major workstation vendor. (sorry
for the plug, couldn't resist.)

	-- Bill Nowicki
	   Sun Microsystems