0004219666@MCIMAIL.COM (Bob Stine) (04/26/91)
>I would be interested in the catalog "A Network Management Tool >Catalog" but I do not know what the RFC in "RFC 1147" stands for. RFCs are online documents maintained by the NIC (Network Information Center). The misleading acronym is "Request For Comments." The name is a hold-over from the days when the Internet was being put together, and was populated almost exclusively by leading-edge hackers, now known as "old boys." Today, RFCs are most often Internet standards or draft standards. Occasionally, as is the case with RFC 1147, RFCs are informally informational. If you have FTP access to the Internet, you can get RFCs from nic.ddn.mil. Use username "anonymous", and give your actual user@host as the password. Change directory to "rfc:" (the colon is _required_), and get "rfc1147.txt". Better yet, if you have a postscript printer, get "rfc1147.ps". If you don't have FTP access, you can get RFCs by email. Send a null message to service@nic.ddn.mil. For the subject line, use "RFC 1147" or "RFC 1147.PS". For more info on the email document server, send it an empty message with subject line "help". I'd recommend that you also get RFC 1175, "FYI on where to start: A bibliography of internetworking information," and RFC 1177, "FYI on Questions and Answers: Answers to commonly asked `new internet user' questions". Happy hunting, Bob Stine