andy@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Andrew Purshottam) (08/24/89)
Hi, anyone have any pointers on a slip for XENIX, preferably with hooks for TB 2500 modems, with a BSD style socket lib so programs from berkeley systems can be ported? $$$ or free (or combo, also need tcp/ip, of course) is fine. Thanks, Andrew
Lance_C_Norskog@cup.portal.com (08/25/89)
Yes, Streamlined Networks has a TCP/IP implementation which supports SL/IP for XENIX/386. SL/IP by itself is just a network medium, like Ethernet or X.25 (which are also supported). The SL/IP support is piggybacked onto existing serial/tty software: you change the line discipline of any serial line and SL/IP latches onto it. When you kill the SL/IP control program, or the modem hangs up, SL/IP lets go and the serial line is back to normal operation. So, if you can make it run UUCP and CU reliably, you can run SL/IP over it. Streamlined TCP is a (very pure) port of BSD 4.3-tahoe, and the socket libs et. al. work on it. Lance Norskog Sales Engineer Streamlined Networks 415-659-1450
chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) (09/09/89)
According to Lance_C_Norskog@cup.portal.com: >Yes, Streamlined Networks has a TCP/IP implementation which supports >SL/IP for XENIX/386. SCO TCP/IP also supports SL/IP; we use it here. >Streamlined TCP is a (very pure) port of BSD 4.3-tahoe, and the socket >libs et. al. work on it. I don't know about ``purity,'' but SCO TCP/IP is close enough to Berkeley sockets that Smail 3.1, Emacs and CAP (the Columbia Appletalk Program) all work just fine. -- You may redistribute this article only to those who may freely do likewise. Chip Salzenberg at A T Engineering; <chip@ateng.com> or <uunet!ateng!chip> "If you push something hard enough, it will fall over." -- Fudd's First Law of Opposition