hack@bellboy.UUCP (Greg Hackney) (07/16/88)
On our Pyramid 9820 (OSx4.1), in the ucb universe this TCP entry in L.sys works just fine: host Any TCP uucp host in: nuucp word: password Does the ability to use TCP uucp exist in the att universe? The att "Dialers" file says that "TCP" is a "builtin" dialer, but it's syntax is not documented elsewhere that I could find. Is the code really in uucico, and if so, how do I set it up? -- Greg Hackney Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. Dallas, Texas root@tness7.UUCP
csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) (07/18/88)
In article <1121@bellboy.UUCP> hack@bellboy.UUCP (Greg Hackney) writes: >Does the ability to use TCP uucp exist in the att universe? Nope. The TCP dialer that comes with the Basic Networking Utilities is (in SVR2) for Wollongong TCP/IP on the 3B2, or (in SVR3) for Streams Transport Interface (which is not TCP/IP _per_se_, but any network that is accessible through TI). Not surprisingly, AT&T doesn't support Berkeley sockets. And Pyramid does not yet have a Streams TCP/IP implementation. Ergo, you cannot talk uucp over TCP/IP in the att universe. Your only solution is to install 4.3BSD UUCP in both universes. See the OSx System Administrator's Guide for instructions on how to do this. Thanks for catching the bug in the Dialers comments. I excised all the exam- ples of unsupported interfaces, but missed the summary at the top of the file! BTW, the changes in 4.3BSD UUCP to make networking interfaces work *right* are considerable. I don't think I would want to run the AT&T UUCP TCP/IP implemen- tation just because of all the security holes. <csg>