[comp.os.minix] rpc in MINIX

ct@tcom.stc.co.uk (Clive Thomson) (05/05/89)

     Has  anyone  implemented  an  equivalent of  SUN's  "rpc"  (remote
     procedure calls) for MINIX ?

     Also, has anyone any experience of driving ETHERNET from MINIX ?

     I  am currently looking for a final-year project for my  part-time
     degree  course,  so  any advice, comments  or  possible  technical
     problems on the above would be much appreciated.

     Thanks in advance,

     Clive Thomson  ct@tcom.stc.co.uk   ...!mcvax!ukc!stc!ct

ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) (05/07/89)

In article <798@islay.tcom.stc.co.uk> ct@tcom.stc.co.uk (Clive Thomson) writes:
>     Also, has anyone any experience of driving ETHERNET from MINIX ?

The way we set up the hard disks on our 20+ student AT clones is to make up
the proper image on one machine, and then download the absolute disk image
(20 meg) to a second machine using the MINIX 1.3 Ethernet stuff.  These
two then get copied to two more machines over Ethernet, etc.  After a while,
there is quite a bit of traffic on the Ethernet, but it seems to work fine.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)