eric@ms.uky.edu (Eric Herrin) (08/13/87)
Has anyone out there written a broadcast packet daemon for the WIN/3B TCP/IP package from AT&T? The problem with WIN/3B is only 1 process may listen on the broadcast channel, and rwhod is already doing that. It would be highly beneficial to me (and my institution) if several processes could be listening on the broadcast channel, and the only other way I see to do this is by writing a daemon to distribute the broadcast packets to the appropriate processes. Since I sometimes feel I am the only person in the world who has such problems, I doubt anyone else even has a need for such a beast. I hope I am wrong, and at least one other person in the world has needed to receive broadcast packets (and solved my problem, in some way). I also welcome any suggestions, but I must point out my time is limited as I am the sole supporter of our instructional lab (ie. my work queue is never ending, this is not the front of the queue, and I am just a research assistant). I would also welcome any general correspondence about WIN/3B or AT&T's TLI interface for STARLAN (I run 5 3B2/310s on SVR3.1 and ~27 UNIX-PCs on V3.51 (this is ~SVR2.0)). Learning about other installations similar to mine might cure my anxiety complex. Thanks in advance, eric | | | Eric Herrin II cbosgd!ukma!eric | | "'tis better to be silent eric@UKMA.BITNET | | and be THOUGHT a fool, than to open eric@ms.uky.csnet | | one's mouth and remove all doubt." eric@ms.uky.edu |