croft@CSLI.STANFORD.EDU (Bill Croft) (02/22/88)
Announcing KIP revision 1/88. KIP revision 1/88 is available via anonymous ftp from SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU in the <INFO-MAC> directory as at-kip.shar. The compiled code is available as at-gw.srec. You must retrieve at-kip.shar because the etc programs (atalkad in particular) have undergone changes. For convenience the revision notes for KIP 1/88 are available in at-kip.rev0188 (and at-kip.shar/doc/rev0188). This revision of KIP has only been tested at a limited number of sites. If you don't need the features listed below, then you may be better off waiting for any bug reports to surface. Since a number of modifications have been made, it is recommended that you give thought to backoff procedures in case you have problems with the new revision (backup gw.srec, atalkad, atalkatab, etc). Please post bug reports and fixes to the info-appletalk mailing list (or comp.protocols.appletalk.) DESCRIPTION This revision of KIP is based upon the (unannounced) 9/87 revision. The major element of the KIP 9/87 revision was the addition of zone support. The major element of KIP 1/88 is support for EtherTalk. Below are brief descriptions of the major additions or modifications in KIP 9/87 and KIP 1/88. For a more complete list, see doc/rev0987 and doc/rev0188 in the distribution. KIP revision 9/87 KIP now implements zones and a limited form of server protection on a zone basis. Upon startup the gateway gets the zone configuration from the administrator daemon (atalkad) via a new packet type (aaZONE). Three different forms of server protection are available so that LaserWriters and other resources without password protection can be restricted from use outside the zone. KIP revision 1/88 The original KIP gateway software supported the localtalk and appletalk-in-IP forms of appletalk. The 0188 release of KIP adds the support of ethertalk. Thus a single ethernet cable can support both the ethertalk and the appletalk-in-IP encapsulations. This is done by assigning such ether cables TWO appletalk network numbers. Traffic directed to one of the net numbers goes out in ethertalk form, traffic to the other net number goes out as appletalk-in-IP. At a recent Apple sponsored IP conference, this mechanism was dubbed 'doubletalk'(!) -------- KIP 1/88 was done by Dan Tappan, Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc. and Charlie C. Kim, User Services, Columbia University. KIP 9/87 was done by Bill Croft, CSLI, Stanford University and Charlie C. Kim, User Services, Columbia University.
verber@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark A. Verber) (02/24/88)
I have recieved a fair bit of mail in the last few months from non Internet sites asking about how to get various pieces of AppleTalk software Most of this software is now on the our UUCP slave machine osu-cis. We will be providing UUCP redist. service for many of the AppleTalk packages just as we have for the GNU software. Be looking in comp.sources.d for more info in the next few days. Cheers, ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Science Department Mark A. Verber The Ohio State University verber@cis.ohio-state.edu +1 (614) 292-7344 cbosgd!osu-cis!verber