dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) (02/07/88)
I am trying to find people interested in testing and writing servers for DNET. I currently have DNET working between an Amiga and a UNIX 4.3 machine. DNET is a windowed protocol which supports up to 65535 independant server-client connections in both directions over your dialup (tty) line. For large transfers, DNET has tested out to about 94% the raw line speed. As DNET has an underlying protocol, data is essentially guarenteed (no noise). DNET uses a server-client/port scheme similar to the internet scheme. It is relatively trivial to write servers and applications for it. I have already written a file transfer server and terminal-rlogin (though it currently cannot handle window-resizing automatically. I also was able to hack up a server on the Amiga end to allow remote logins to the Amiga (you get a shell). DNET is not on the internet, but it would be relatively trivial to write a glue server listening both on the internet and on DNET's AF_UNIX sockets. DNET *does* use UNIX domain sockets which allows users to have completely independant DNET's running. As I type this, I have two other terminal windows open and a very large file transfer running (unread comp.sys.amiga news). At the moment I only want people who either have two Amigas (connect serial ports together with Tx/Rx and a few other lines flipped), or have an Amiga and a UNIX BSD 4.3 account (4.2 should work also). After we get it debugged I'll post a cleaned up version to the net. You can also ask me to send it to you for the hell of it. Those of you who might want to port it to other mini's or mainframes should wait until the cleaned-up debugged version is sent to the net. Those people on the ARPA net should make my life easy and FTP into pub/amiga on ucbvax.berkeley.edu (dnet.arc) ... it's not on there yet... mail me so I know when I have to start putting on ucbvax. -Matt ..!ihnp4!ucbvax!dillon usenet dillon@ucbvax.berkeley.edu arpanet