larry@zeek.UUCP (Larry Podmolik) (03/06/89)
Forgive me if this has been asked/answered before: Is there any alternative to the AT&T-supplied TCP/IP package for the 3B2 line? According to our reliable AT&T sources, this thing costs about $5000, which I consider completely ridiculous since I can get an Ethernet board _including_ TCP/IP from AT&T for the 6386E for about $1500!! Public domain would be nice, but I have no objections to paying for it - it's just that $5000 seems a little too much... Larry
scion@alphard.cs.utk.edu (Sam C. Nicholson II) (03/09/89)
> >Is there any alternative to the AT&T-supplied TCP/IP package for the >3B2 line? According to our reliable AT&T sources, this thing costs >about $5000, which I consider completely ridiculous since I can get an >Larry I have no idea just when ( may already be here) or how much but the blurbs that I have heard on SV.4 look pretty good wrt Berzerkley compatibility. ( Anyone out there know more) I was trying to get a 3b2/400 connected to our net, but decided to fall back to uucp and wait for some announcements from Mother. Pricewise, I don't see how the entire release could cost more than $5k. This followup is not so much to respond to Larry's question as to elicit responses from folk who might know more about the upcoming SV.4 and are able to say. Just didn't seem to me worth porting the Berkeley net code when Mother would release it before I got done. -sam