rpaul@crow.UUCP (Rodian Paul) (05/15/91)
Hope someone can help me with this... I was wondering what I need to do to get UUCP running over the ethernet between machines. Do I have to add some kind of hardware extras, or is it simply a case of setting up the appropriate Devices/Dialers/Systems/Permissions entries? If the latter is true, could someone please post an example of how to configure the Devices/Dialers files? Thanks a lot. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- rpaul%crow@ccut.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp phone: +81 (3) 5706-8357 ccut.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp!crow!rpaul FAX: +81 (3) 5706-8437
vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) (05/16/91)
In article <9105141825.AA06015@crow.omni.co>, rpaul@crow.UUCP (Rodian Paul) writes: > > Hope someone can help me with this... I was wondering what I need to do > to get UUCP running over the ethernet between machines. Do I have to add > some kind of hardware extras, or is it simply a case of setting up the > appropriate Devices/Dialers/Systems/Permissions entries? Soryy, the UUCP binaries SGI ships do not include the support for TCP transport. This dates from the initial SVR3.0 port, when the SVR3.0 HDB UUCP source from AT&T was not unconfused about differences between sockets and TLI and when we were very busy just making UUCP work at all. There is an entry on a "to-do" list to get the socket version of the HDB UUCP TCP code working. However, almost no customers seem to care. The recent (in this time scale) popularity of NNTP has removed the biggest reason for using UUCP/TCP/IP, so that SGI rarely gets complaints about not having it. If a lot of customers hollered, priorities would be changed. I bet things like MTU-discovery would do more people more good, so be be sure you konw what you're asking for if you chose to holler. Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com