The PC-Mac TCP/IP & NFS FAQ list
Version 2.3
Last Updated: 2/20/94
by Rawn Shah
Welcome to the PC TCP/IP & NFS Frequently Asked Questions list. This list
contains information that might help you decide upon a TCP/IP or NFS product
for your PC or Macintosh.
This document is translated from the HyperText version of the FAQ so please
be patient with any formatting errors that may occur due to the translation
scripts I have used.
NOTE: If you use this FAQ list and decide you like a product listed here
enough to purchase it, please mention where you got this information to the
product seller. Thank you.
Rawn Shah
*. This FAQ
*-1. What topics does this FAQ cover?
*-2. Where can I get this FAQ?
*-3. Who helped write this FAQ?
*-4. Who maintains this FAQ?
*-5. Who maintains comp.protocols.nfs?
*-6. Where are the archives for comp.protocols.nfs?
*-7. Trademarks and Registered names.
*-8. What do the -, + and * before the questions mean?
*-9. Whats up and coming in the next issue of the FAQ list?
The real FAQ:
Section A. Basics
A-1. What is NFS?
A-2. What is (PC)NFS?
A-3a. Where can I get TCP/IP and NFS for my DOS system?
A-3b. Where can I get TCP/IP and NFS for my MS-Windows system?
A-3c. Where can I get TCP/IP and NFS for my Macintosh system?
A-3d. Where can I get TCP/IP and NFS for my OS/2 system?
A-4. What is PC-NFS as opposed to (PC)NFS?
A-5. What is TCP/IP?
A-6. What is Ethernet?
A-7. What is SLIP?
A-8. What is PPP?
A-9. What is Appletalk?
A-10. What is telnet? What is ftp?
A-11. What is a client? What is a server? Why do I need them?
A-12. Where can I get (PC)NFS cheap/free/PD?
A-13. What is SOS & SOSS? Where can I get it?
A-14. Are there any free NFS clients available for DOS?
A-15. What is MacTCP?
A-16. What is KIP?
A-17. What is DDP-IP?
Section B. Setup
B-1. What are the different types of drivers available?
B-2. -What are "shim"s? What shims are available?
B-3. What are packet drivers? Where do I get them?
B-4. Can I use packet drivers with (PC)NFS?
B-5. Can I run (PC)NFS over SLIP?
B-6. Can I run (PC)NFS at the same time as Netware?
B-7. Can I run (PC)NFS at the same time as CUTCP or NCSA Telnet?
B-8. Can (PC)NFS run with NDIS drivers?
B-9. Can I use (PC)NFS to mount a diskless PC from a remote server?
B-10. Can (PC)NFS run over token ring?
B-11. Can I run PC-NFS with my 3C509 Etherlink III card?
B-12. Can I run PC-NFS slip at higher baud rates than 9600?
B-13. Can I access an MSCDEX CD-ROM with PC-NFS?
B-14. Can I run NDIS over Packet drivers?
B-15. How does ODI compare to NDIS?
B-16. How can I connect a LocalTalk network to Macintoshes on the Ethernet?
B-17. What is PKTMUX used for?
Section C. Server
C-1. What is pcnfsd? What is pcnfsdv2?
C-2. Where can I get pcnfsd for my server system?
C-3. -What is lockd?
C-4. How can I test NFS performance?
C-5. What is NHFSSTONES? Where can I get it?
C-6. -What will help my server increase performance?
C-7. How many nfsd's & biod's should I run on my server?
C-8. What is asynchronous I/O? How can I modify my NFS server system to use
asynchronous I/O?
C-9. What is a good NFS server?
C-10. What is LADDIS?
C-11. What is XRemote & LBX?
Section D. Applications
D-1. Where can I get mail with (PC)NFS?
D-2. Where can I get news with (PC)NFS?
D-3. Where can I get an FTP server?
D-4. Where can I get rwalld for (PC)NFS? [May be removed, please read]
D-5. Where can I get a INT-14 redirector for (PC)NFS?
D-6. Where can I get YPPASSWD for PC-NFS?
D-7. Where can I get IBM 3270 terminal for (PC)NFS?
D-8. Where can I get an X-Windows server for (PC)NFS?
D-9. -Where can I get a calender/scheduling program for (PC)NFS?
D-10. Where can I get a database that works with (PC)NFS?
D-11. Where can I get a WAIS client for (PC)NFS?
D-12. Where can I get an archie for (PC)NFS?
D-13. Where can I get a gopher client for (PC)NFS?
D-14. Where can I get a WWW (World Wide Web) client for (PC)NFS?
D-15. Where can I get X25 for (PC)NFS?
D-16. Where can I get NEWGRP.EXE for PC-NFS?
D-17. Where can I get AUTOCONF for PC-NFS?
D-18. Where can I get a backup utiliy for (PC)NFS?
D-19. Which (PC)NFS packages support DNS [named]?
D-20. Where can I get a traceroute program?
D-21. Where can I get an LPD program?
D-22. Where can I get an LPR program?
D-23. Where can I get an NSLOOKUP program?
D-24. Where can I get an WWW server?
D-25. Where can I get an Whois client?
Section E. Problems & General Q&A
E-1. -How can I load (PC)NFS into DOS high memory?
E-2. Can I use DNS instead of NIS with PC-NFS?
E-3. Why do some versions of (PC)NFS not follow symbolic links?
E-4. PC-NFS v4.0 has trouble with Cntl-S, Cntl-Q.
E-5. PC-NFS v4.0 has trouble with redrawing the window while in MS-Windows.
E-6. +PC-NFS v4.0 doesn't allow me to access the local printer when I have
network printers.
E-7. I cannot delete any file that PC-NFS makes with a ~ (tilde) in it.
E-8. PC-NFS says that it cannot open any more files even when the limit in
autoexec.bat is set higher.
E-9. Can (PC)NFS mount file systems which are bigger than 2 GB?
E-10. What is NFS/TCP? Will it work with my NFS?
E-11. +What is PKTD.SYS? Where can I get it?
E-12. How can I run Novell Netware (tm) 3.xx at the same time as (PC)NFS
using NDIS?
E-13. -How many PC's can work with a single PC-NFS server?
E-14. Is it possible to modify the read & write buffer sizes in (PC)NFS?
E-15. How can I install Ethernet boards not supported by (PC)NFS?
E-16. In postscript files I sometimes get a ^D before the header from my
programs. How do I get rid of it?
E-17. On the server, how do I get rid of TCP connections which say that
they are CLOSING but never do (without a reboot)?
E-18. How do I set up IP connections over a LocalTalk network? How do I
connect a LocalTalk network to an Ethernet?
E-19. Do I set Daylight savings time in Europe?
E-20. Is there a Winsock interface for LAN WorkPlace?
Section F. Programming
F-1. Is there a toolkit for (PC)NFS programming? Whats the latest version
and where can I get it?
F-2. What is the Windows Sockets API (winsock)? Where can I get it?
F-3. What is the latest version of the NFS protocol?
F-4. What happened to version 3 of the NFS protocol?
F-5. What is the current RPC version? Where can I get it?
F-6. Where can I get the RPC definition for PCNFSD?
F-7. What are RFC's? What RFC's describe the NFS protocol? Where can I get
these RFC's?
F-8. How can I tell if a file is NFS mounted from a server?
F-9. What does APP2SOCK do?
F-10. Which DOS call will give a list of mounted file systems?
Section G. Product Features Comparisons **
G-1. Network Drivers and Hardware Protocols.
G-2. Foreign Network Protocols and Operating System Co-operation.
G-3. IP protocols supported.
G-4. Terminal emulations and Remote Connectivity capabilities of products.
G-5. Mail, WhoIs, Finger, News, Talk, NTalk.
G-6. NFS, FTP, TFTP, Network Backup and Network Printing.
G-7. Servers.
G-8. Network Utilities (nslookup, ping, traceroute, netstat, route, snmp)
G-9. Features of X servers.
Section H. Information Sources
H-1. Chest - Council for Higher Education Software Transfer [UK]
H-2. X/Open
H-3. Books
H-4. Related Papers (published)
H-5. Popular FTP sites
H-6. Related FAQ's, USENET lists, mail lists.
H-7. Glossary.
H-8. +PD/Shareware Winsock Software List.
Section W. Third-Party Email Software
W-1. CliqAccessories Quadratron Systems
W-2. Higgins Group Prod sw Enable Software
W-3. Linkage Concentric Technologies
W-4. OpenMail Hewlett-Packard
W-5. PathWay Messenger The Wollongong Group.
W-6. +Eudora (Mac & PC) Qualcomm Software.
W-7. SelectMail SunSelect
W-8. AIRMail Spry, Inc.
Section X. X-Windows Software
X-1. eXceed Hummingbird Software Ltd.
X-2. eXcursion DEC
X-3. eXodus White Pines Software.
X-4. Micro X-Lite StarNet Communications Corporation.
X-5. MultiView/X JSB Corporation
X-6. PC-Xware & PC-Xview NCD, Inc.
X-7. PC X-server & PC Link XLink
X-8. PC-Xsight Locus Computing Corp.
X-9. PC DECWindows Motif DEC
X-10. Reflection X Walker, Richer & Quinn
X-11. X Appeal Xtreme s.a.s.
X-12. Xoftware AGE Logic, Inc.
X-13. Xvision VisionWare Soft, Inc
X-14. X-windows for OS/2 IBM
Section Y. Other Third Party & Related Software
Server Products:
Y-1. eNFS INTERSTREAM
Y-2. Multinet TGV, Inc.
Y-3. -DEC TCP/IP Digitial Equipment Corp.
Y-4. -NHFSSTONE Legato
Y-5. -PrestoServe Legato
Y-6. SOSS Rich Braun
Y-7. TCPWare for VMS Process Software Corp.
Other software:
Y-9. Trumpet Winsock Peter Tatam.
Y-10. -WinVN
Y-11. Cello Cornell Law School/Thomas Bruce
Y-12. MacPPP Merit Network
Y-13. PPP for NCSA Telnet Merit Network
Y-14. AIR Navigator SPRY, Inc.
Y-15. WATTCP Erick Engelke
Section Z. TCP/IP & NFS Products
Z-1. AIR for Windows SPRY, Inc.
Z-2. BW-NFS & BW-TCP Beame & Whiteside, Inc.
Z-3. Chameleon NFS NetManage
Z-4. CU/TCP Clarkson University/Rutgers University
Z-5. Distinct TCP Distinct Corp.
Z-6. -LAN Manager TCP/IP Microsoft Corp.
Z-7. LAN Workplace NFS Novell, Inc.
Z-8. NCSA Telnet Nat'l Center for Supercomputing Applications.
Z-9. NFS/Share Intercon, Inc.
Z-10. NS & ARPA Services Hewlett-Packard, Inc.
Z-11. Pathway Access DOS/Win The Wollongong Group.
Z-12. PathWay Access OS/2 The Wollongong Group.
Z-13. PC-NFS SunSelect Inc.
Z-14. PC/TCP FTP Inc.
Z-15. Reflection Walker Richer & Quinn, Inc.
Z-16. SuperTCP Frontier Technology, Corp.
Z-17. TCP/IP for DOS IBM
Z-18. TCP/IP for OS/2 IBM
Z-19. TCP/Open Lanera Corp.
Z-20. TTCP Turbosoft Pte. Ltd.
Z-21. *Trumpet WinApps Peter Tattam
Z-22. WinQVT QPC Software, Inc.
Z-23. Fusion Pacific Softworks, Inc.
Z-24. PathWay Access for Mac The Wollongong Group.
Z-25. ICE/TCP James River Group
Z-26. Piper/IP IPswitch, Inc.
Z-27. TCP/Connect II Intercon, Inc.
Z-28. TUN Esker
Z-29. *Vantage/IP IPswitch, Inc.
Z-30. *Lantastic Artisoft,Inc.
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Section *.
*-1. What topics does this FAQ cover?
This Frequently Asked Questions list covers questions on commonly available
NFS products and related products and topics running on PC systems and
Macintosh systems. The original section of topics has increased so much that
I've expanded them into separate sections as well. The topics now covered
are:
A. Basics - general questions on what NFS, (PC)NFS, & TCP/IP are.
B. Setup - questions on setting up these products.
C. Server - questions on the PCNFSD server & server system
administration.
D. Applications - commercial and public-domain applications which
will work with these systems.
E. Problems & General Q&A - questions, problems and general info on
(PC)NFS maintainence.
F. Programming - Programming toolkit and NFS & RPC related
programming questions.
G. Product Features Comparions - This compares the features of
the TCP/IP packages.
H. Information Sources - This is a list of organizations or sources
of information on NFS, XDR, Winsock, lists, etc.
W. Third Party Email - This is a list of commercial and shareware
email packages.
X. Xwindows Packages - This is a list of commercial Xwindows
software.
Y. Third Party & Related Software - Third party products such as
server software, news, etc.
Z. TCP/IP & NFS products - Commercial and public domain/shareware
TCP/IP & NFS products.
NOTE: Throughout this document all vendors are referred to by their entry
number in section Z, eg.
Z-X refers to entry X in section Z.
*-2. Where can I get this FAQ?
This FAQ is available on the USENET newsgroup, posted once in every two
weeks and also on the following FTP sites:
seagull.rtd.com:/pub/tcpip/FAQ.pcnfs.current.Z [Unix compress]
seagull.rtd.com:/pub/tcpip/FAQ.pcnfs.current.gz [GnuZip compress]
seagull.rtd.com:/pub/tcpip/pcnfsfaq.zip [ZIP compress]
seagull.rtd.com:/pub/tcpip/pcnfsfaq.txt [Plain ASCII text]
ftp.york.ac.uk: /pub/pc-nfs/FAQ/pcnfs.FAQ
Also possibly:
bcm.tmc.edu: /nfs
src.doc.ic.ac.uk
ftpserver.massey.ac.nz
*-3. Who helped write this FAQ?
The information in the FAQ is a collection generated from my personal
knowledge and with the help of the following people who I'm very grateful
to:
Geoff Arnold (geoff@east.sun.com) Sun Microsystems
Farid Rahmi (fr@sunbim.be) BR
Marty Udescci (martyu@twg.com) The Wollongong Group
Chip Sparling (chip@ftp.com) FTP Software
Fred Whiteside (fred@bws.com) Beame & Whiteside
C. J. Sacksteder, et. al. (cjs@psuvm.psu.edu) Penn State Univ.
Dean (Dean@frontiertech.com) Frontier Tech.
Winifred Crowther Beame & Whiteside
Kenneth Adelman (Adelman@tgv.com) TGV, Inc.
Bruce Miller (Miller@tgv.com) TGV, Inc.
John Keyes (john.keyes@east.sun.com) Sun Microsystems
Vernon Schryver (vjs@sgi.com) SGI, Inc.
Marc Wiz (mwiz@austin.ibm.com) IBM Corp. (The Core Group)
Dave Fetrow (fetrow@biostat.washington.edu) Univ. of Washington
Fritz Mueller (fritz@netmanage.com) NetManage, Inc.
Zvi Alon (zvi@netmanage.com) NetManage, Inc.
Brian Pawlowski (beepy@ennoyab.eng.sun.com) Sun Microsystems
Edmund J. Sutcliffe (edmund@york.ac.uk) Univ. of York
Erick Engelke - Independent
Giovanni Novelli Xtreme s.a.s
Danny Thomas (vthrc@mailbox.uq.oz.au) Independent
Thomas Dwyer III (tomiii@mtu.edu) Independent
Geert Jan de Groot (geertj@ica.philips.nl) Philips
Francis K. Selkirk (fks@ftp.com) ftp Software Inc.
Alan Arndt (aga@Comtech.com) Comtech Labs
Gavin Longmuir (gavin@sorokin.anu.edu.au) Australian Nat'l Univ.
George Brad Weiner (sales@age.com) AGE Logic, Inc.
George Stump The Wollongong Group, Inc.
Bob MacFadgen (bob@ipswitch.com) Ipswitch, Inc.
Special thanks to:
Edmund Sutcliffe & the University of York for providing an FTP site and his
endless help.
Geoff Arnold for placing the FAQ on the comp.protocols.nfs FTP sites.
C.J.Sacksteder for allowing the use of portions of his document,
"Features of TCP/IP Packages for DOS and Windows"
Brian Pawlowski for allowing the use of his list of bibliographic entries on
papers for NFS, XDR, and RPC.
To any others that I may have forgotten, you have the right to look me up
in Tucson and demand a beer out of me.
*-4. Who maintains this FAQ?
Me, of course!
*-5. Who maintains comp.protocols.nfs?
This is an unmoderated USENET newsgroup although there are regular posters
who will be able to help with your questions related to (PC)NFS products.
*-6. Where are the archives for comp.protocols.nfs?
The archives for comp.protocols.nfs are kept at the following FTP sites:
bcm.tmc.edu
src.doc.ic.ac.uk
ftpserver.massey.ac.nz
*-7. Trademarks and Registered names.
AppleTalk, LocalTalk and Macintosh are registered trademarks and MacX and
A/UX are trademarks of Apple Computer Corp.
VMS, and OpenVMS are registered trademarks of Digital Equipment Corp.
ONC, NFS, NIS & PC-NFS are registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems
Computer Corp.
PC/TCP and Interdrive are trademarks of FTP Software Inc.
BW-TCP and BW-NFS are trademarks of Beame & Whiteside Software, Ltd.
IBM, IBM PC, AIX & OS/2 are registered trademarks and LAN Server is a
trademark of International Business Machines, Inc.
Chameleon, ChameleonNFS and Newt are trademarks of NetManage Corp.
DEC, VMS, OpenVMS, DECnet are registered trademarks and eXcursion and
DECwindows are trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation
TSSNet is a trademark of Thursby Software Systems, Inc.
PathWay, PathWay Access & PathWay Client NFS are trademarks of The
Wollongong Group
SuperTCP is a trademark of Frontier Technologies, Inc.
XVision is a trademark of VisionWare Software Ltd., UK.
eNFS is a trademark of INTERSTREAM, Inc.
AIR is a trademark of SPRY, Inc.
ODI and LAN WorkPlace are trademarks of Novell, Inc.
NDIS, MS-DOS and MS-Windows are registered trademarks and LAN Manager is a
trademark of Microsoft Corp.
MOTIF is a trademark of the Open Software Foundation, Inc.
WINQVT/NET and WINQVT/NFS are trademarks of QPC Software Corp.
HCL-eXceed, HCL-eXceed Plus, and HCL-eXtend are trademarks of Hummingbird
Software, Ltd.
TCPOpen is a trademark of Lanera Corp.
UNIX is a trademark of Unix Systems Laboratories
Multinet is a trademark of TGV, Inc.
PC-Xware & PC-Xview are trademarks of NCD, Inc.
PC-Xsight is a trademark of Locus Computing Corp.
Multiview/X is a trademark of JSB Corporation
PC X-server & PC-Link are trademarks of XLink Corp.
eXodus is a trademark of White Pines Software.
CU/TCP is a trademark of Clarkson University and Rutgers University
NCSA Telnet is a trademark of the National Center for Supercomputing
Applications.
Micro X-Lite is a trademark of StarNet Communications Corp.
AIR is a trademark of SPRY, Inc.
ICE.TCP is a trademark of the James River Group, Inc.
Piper/IP, Vantage/IP and Catipult are trademarks of Ipswitch, Inc.
*-8. What do the -, + and * before the questions mean?
The - is used to signify that the question is out of date or has no
information related with it.
The + is used to signify that the question has been recently updated with
new information or corrections have been made to the answer.
The * signifies the question as a new one as of the current FAQ version
*-9. Whats up and coming in the next issue of the FAQ list?
The FAQ is expanding at good rate and I'm still waiting for it to level off.
Coming issues should include:
a few more TCP products (VxDTCP, DLink, Lantastic, etc)
a better description of NFS 3 once I finish reading it.
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Section A. Basics
A-1. What is NFS?
Network File System (NFS) is file system that will mount remote file systems
across homogenous and heterogenous systems. NFS consists of a client and
server systems. An NFS server can export local directories for remote NFS
clients to use. NFS runs over IP using UDP (commonly). There are NFS
implementations that will work using TCP as the network transport service.
NFS was originally developed by Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. (SMCC) and
is now part of their Open Network Computing (ONC) initiative. NFS has been
accepted by the IETF in certain RFC's (see F-7) as a standard for file
services on TCP/IP networks on the Internet.
A-2. What is (PC)NFS?
(PC)NFS is a generic term referring to all NFS systems running on IBM PC and
compatible systems as well as other Personal Computer systems as defined
upon by the X/Open Group.
A-3a. Where can I get TCP/IP and NFS for my DOS system?
To use NFS you will need a TCP/IP stack first. The following are a list
of TCP/IP stacks and packages available for DOS systems.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Product Name Vendor Pricing Entry
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
AIR SPRY $299 Z-1
BW-TCP Beame & Whiteside $245 Z-2
ChameleonNFS NetManage $400 Z-3
CU/TCP Clarkson Univ. free Z-4
Distinct TCP Distinct Corp. ?? Z-5
LAN Workplace Novell $399 Z-7
NCSA Telnet NCSA free Z-8
PathWay The Wollongong Group $350 Z-11
PC_NFS SunSelect $435 Z-13
PC/TCP FTP Corp. $400 Z-14
Reflection2 WRQ, Inc. $199 Z-15
WATTCP Erick Engelke free Z-21
TUN Esker ?? Z-28
The following are the TCP/IP packages with the added NFS options:
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Product Name Vendor Pricing Entry
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
AIR SPRY $399 Z-1
BWNFS Beame & Whiteside $349 Z-2
PathWay The Wollongong Group $350 + $95 Z-11
PC_NFS SunSelect $435 Z-13
PC/TCP FTP Corp. $400 Z-14
SuperTCP Frontier Tech. $495 Z-16
IBM TCP/IP IBM $230 + $135 Z-17
Fusion Pacific Softworks $349 + $250 Z-23
Piper/IP Ipswitch $375 + $99 Z-26
TUN Esker ?? Z-28
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
* means other pricings available see corresponding entry for product in
Section Z.
A-3b. Where can I get TCP/IP and NFS for my MS-Windows system?
To use NFS you will need a TCP/IP stack first. The following are a list
of TCP/IP stacks and packages available for Microsoft Windows 3.1 systems.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Product Name Vendor Pricing Entry
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
AIR SPRY $299 Z-1
BW-TCP Beame & Whiteside $245 Z-2
ChameleonNFS NetManage $400 Z-3
Distinct TCP Distinct Corp. ?? Z-5
LAN Workplace Novell $399 Z-7
PathWay The Wollongong Group $350 Z-11
PC_NFS SunSelect $435 Z-13
PC/TCP FTP Corp. $400 Z-14
Reflection2 WRQ, Inc. $299 Z-15
SuperTCP Frontier Tech. $395 Z-16
Piper/IP Ipswitch $375 Z-26
TUN Esker ?? Z-28
The following are the TCP/IP packages with the NFS additions:
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Product Name Vendor Pricing Entry
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
AIR SPRY $399 Z-1
BWNFS Beame & Whiteside $349 Z-2
ChameleonNFS NetManage $495 Z-3
Distinct Distinct Corp. ?? Z-5
LAN Workplace Novell $399 Z-7
PathWay The Wollongong Group $350 + $95 Z-11
PC_NFS SunSelect $435 Z-13
PC/TCP FTP Corp. $400 Z-14
SuperTCP Frontier Tech. $495 Z-16
IBM TCP/IP IBM $230 + $135 Z-17
TCPOpen Lanera Corp. $195 Z-19
WinQVT/Net QPC Inc. $40 (shareware) Z-22
$20 (student)
Fusion Pacific Softworks $349 + $250 Z-23
Piper/IP Ipswitch $375 + $99 Z-26
TUN Esker ?? Z-28
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Prices for Multiple copies and other options are available; see corresponding
entry for product in Section Z.
A-3c. Where can I get TCP/IP and NFS for my Macintosh system?
You can get TCP/IP packages for Macintosh systems from:
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Product Name Vendor Pricing Entry
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
PathWay Wollongong $295 Z-24
TCP/Connect II Intercon ?? Z-27
TCP/IP 2 Apple ?? ??
NCSA/BYU Telnet NCSA & BYU free Z-8
You can get NFS clients for Macintosh from:
The Wollongong Group: PathWay NFS [Z-11]
Intercon: NFS/Share [Z-9]
There are also packages for hardware gateways which will allow Macintosh
systems to NFS drive systems. Cayman systems puts out the GatorShare
software for their GatorBox and GatorStar series which gateway LocalTalk
based Macintosh systems onto an Ethernet and allow IP tunneling inside
Appletalk to reach external systems. GatorShare allows Macintoshs to mount
NFS disks as AFP (Apple Filing Protocol) volumes which are displayed as
remote drives on the Apple Chooser. Shiva & Fallaron have similar gateway
(DDP-IP) systems.
IPT has a software only system that works in concert with one of the above
mentioned hardware systems that allow Unix systems to export disks as AFP
volumes. IPT's Partner is not in strict sense an NFS system. It implements
Appletalk on Unix systems and exports drives and printers as Appletalk ones.
CAP (Columbia Appletalk) is a public domain package which has similar
services.
Work is currently in progress to produce a software based DDP-IP package
that will connect LocalTalk Macintoshes through a Mac system with both
LocalTalk & Ethernet interfaces to Ethernet based IP systems. Hopefully the
project will be completed before October. Initial prospects are to
distribute this as shareware.
A-3d. Where can I get TCP/IP and NFS for my OS/2 2.x system?
You can get TCP/IP packages for OS/2 2.x systems from:
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Product Name Vendor Pricing Entry
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
PathWay Wollongong ?? Z-12
PC/TCP OS/2 ??
TCP/IP OS/2 IBM $230 Z-18
WorkPlace Novell ??
Vantage/IP Ipswitch $395 Z-29
The TCP/IP and NFS are available from:
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Product Name Vendor Pricing Entry
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
PathWay Wollongong ?? Z-12
PC/TCP OS/2 ??
TCP/IP OS/2 IBM $230 + $140 Z-18
WorkPlace Novell ??
Vantage/IP Ipswitch $395 Z-29
A-4. What is PC-NFS as opposed to (PC)NFS?
PC-NFS is a specific NFS product for PC systems from SunSelect. PC-NFS is a
registered trademark and so should NOT be used as a generic term describing
all NFS systems on PC's. (PC)NFS is a generic term describing NFS systems on
PC's as decided upon by the members of X/Open.
A-5. What is TCP/IP?
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) is the main
transport protocol used on the Internet for connectivity and transmission of
data across heterogenous systems. It is an open standard which is available
on most Unix systems, VMS and other minicomputer systems, many mainframe &
supercomputing systems and some microcomputer & PC systems.
TCP/IP is a software solution for network connectivity. There is little
assumption on the hardware system used for actual physical connections. The
most common hardware solution is Ethernet, but TCP/IP will also run on
Token-Ring, AT&T StarLAN, microwave & spread spectrum systems , LocalTalk
(needs a gateway), Serial lines (modems, serial connections) and other
systems as well.
To run TCP/IP on a system you first need a hardware driver. On Macintosh
systems, the hardware drivers are built into the system or is provided by
the board manufacturer. On a PC system, there are different types of
hardware drivers available both commercially and via public domain/shareware
including the Packet driver specification by FTP Software, Inc., Microsoft's
Network Device Interface Specification (NDIS), & Novell's Open Datalink
Interface (ODI). Drivers for OS/2 systems are available from IBM and/or the
board manufacturer (if they support OS/2). If a driver is not available for
your hardware, look for a shim. This is a software device which translates
between two driver specifications. There are shims for ODI-on-NDIS,
NDIS-on-Packet driver. ODI-on-Packet driver, etc. usually publically
available.
You then need a TCP/IP stack. This is package specific usually comes with
every product. Each such stack has its own requirements for hardware
drivers. you must find a combination of driver & TCP/IP stack which is
compatible with your hardware & system. Macintosh's do not have a problem
since most Macintosh systems use the MacTCP stack which is available from
Apple and is provided with most if not all Macintosh TCP/IP packages. PC
systems have something close to a standard in TCP applications called the
Windows Sockets API (Winsock). [Note: This is not specific only to TCP/IP it
is a general standard for networking on PC irrelevant of the transport
protocol. Hence, there may be versions for NetBEUI, IPX, etc.]. The Winsock
API is avaialble in 16 bit and 32 bit versions. The 32 bit versions are for
Windows NT systems. Winsock is implemented in Dynamically Loaded Libraries
or DLLs. Currently work is under way to develop a freeware Winsock DLL but
many commercial versions are available.
With the TCP/IP stack in hand, you then need all the TCP/IP application
programs such as Telnet, FTP, mail, etc. Just about every TCP/IP package has
a corresponding set of applications although some do not provide all the
different applications available.
A-6. What is Ethernet?
Ethernet is one of the most popular network cabling schemes in use. The
original Ethernet specification was developed by Xerox. A second version
(Ethernet II) was made with the efforts of Digital Equipment Corp., Intel,
and Xerox.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standardized a
separate form of Ethernet which has come to be known by the standards
document number: IEEE 802.3.
Both Ethernet II and IEEE 802.3 are compatible on the same wire so hardware
utilizing either can work in the same network.
Both these standards also specify a hardware protocol which describes each
"frame" of data.
Ethernet hardware use CSMA/CD (Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision
Detection) which is a fancy way of saying that only one machine on the
Ethernet can speak at any one time and if two or more try to do it at once,
"collisions" of frames occur and the machine has to resend the frame of data
at a later time.
Ethernet is a hardware and Data link specification. Other software network
protocols run above this: IP, IPX, AppleTalk, NetBEUI, CLNP etc. In turn
other protocols can run over those: TCP & UDP over IP, SPX over IPX, etc.
PCs and Macintoshes connect to an Ethernet via a Network Interface Card, a
card which fits into your machine's bus (eg. ISA for PCs, NuBus for Macs)
and require a network driver to function.
A-7. What is SLIP?
Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP) is a standard on the Internet for
serial line and modem connectivity between two systems. This allows any one
SLIP client to connect to a SLIP server to provide connectivity between
different IP hosts. Both systems must have TCP/IP stacks running. Certain
SLIP packages even allow the SLIP client to act as a gateway between a local
network and a remote network, ie. all machines on the local network can
connect automatically over the SLIP line to remote systems and vice versa.
SLIP packages are available for PC systems. See G-1.
A-8. What is PPP?
PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) is a direct link protocol which works over
serial lines and direct links similar to SLIP. Overall it gets more
throughput than SLIP. The remote host needs to accept PPP connections and
the local host should act as a client.
A-9. What is AppleTalk?
Appletalk is a network protocol that Apple Computers Inc. created to
provide networking in Macintosh systems. It consists of hardware protocols
and software protocols although the term "Appletalk" usually refers to the
software protocols. The hardware protocols have their own names as well.
LocalTalk is the simplest and consists of direct connections between
Macintoshes with a cable. Appletalk can run over Ethernet and this form is
known as EtherTalk. There are others: FDDITalk, TokenTalk, etc.
The Appletalk software protocols consist of DDP (Datagram Delivery
Protocol), NBP (Name Binding Protocol), RTMP (Routing Table Management
Protocol), ZIP (Zone Information Protocol), ATP (Appletalk Transaction
Protocol), etc. DDP is a common lower layer for many of the protocols and is
similar in respect to the IP layer. When most people say "Appletalk packets"
they usually mean DDP packets (which can also carry other Appletalk protocol
packets).
A-10. What is telnet? What is ftp?
Telnet & FTP are two TCP/IP applications for remote host access and remote
file transfer, respectively. Any host with a telnet client can connect to
any host with a telnet server. Any work done within a telnet session is
executed on the server host, thus for most intents and purposes your are on
the remote server, virtually. FTP clients can connect to FTP servers to
transfer files either direction. You can preserve the file contents
independent of the client and server hosts.
A-11. What is a client? What is a server? Why do I need them?
A client application uses resources available on a remote site. This remote
site runs a server for this purpose. NFS is a client-server technology. You
need an NFS client to mount remote disks or directories. The server makes
these disks or directories available for other systems to use. For example,
If you have an NFS client on your PC, you can mount remote drives on your
PC. However, if that PC does not have an NFS server, then you cannot make it
possible for other systems to use your local drive.
A-12. Where can I get (PC)NFS cheap/free/PD?
There are currently no free or shareware NFS client packages
available. There are several projects in development but releases have not
been announced. Also read A-13.
SOSS is a public domain NFS server available by FTP.
There are, however, a few different TCP/IP packages available as shareware
and freeware such as WATTCP, <a href="SecZ.html#NCSA
Telnet">NCSA Telnet, CU/TCP, WinQVT (shareware).
A-13. What is SOS & SOSS? Where can I get it?
SOS (stan's own server) is the original NFS server developed by See-Mong Tan
and is a public domain nfs server.
SOSS (son of stan's server) is a souped up version of SOS developed by Rich
Braun, et al with better performance capabilities.
SOS is still available although it is advised that you use SOSS when
necessary. SOSS is available at the following site:
grape.ecs.clarkson.edu
A-14. Are there any free NFS clients available for DOS?
There was once a project at the Univ. of Maryland which made an NFS client
for free distribution but is now no longer available.
There have also been reports that NCSA Telnet may come out with an NFS
client in the future but so far there hasn't been any further news on that.
There is a client being developed for the WATTCP package by Micheal Durkin.
This will be released as shareware ($15) in executable format only. Source
code may be available depending on the authors preference.
A-15. What is MacTCP?
MacTCP is a Macintosh control panel item which allows TCP and UDP
applications to run on a Macintosh. MacTCP is developed by Apple Computers
Inc. and is sold for the price of $59 a copy. It is a defacto standard item
required for most Macintosh TCP/IP applications. It connects the application
program with the lower level extensions (drivers) and LAP (Link Access
Protocols) such as the Ethernet extension. The Localtalk LAP is already
built into the program.
MacTCP implements all TCP/IP layers from TCP, UDP, to IP, ARP. The driver
level is separate.
A-16. What is KIP?
KIP stands for Kinetics-IP after the company that originally developed it
and has now been confused to mean almost all Appletalk-IP protocols. The
original KIP was used to tunnel the Appletalk protocols within TCP/IP (or
rather just IP). Now its also confused to mean IP running over Appletalk
systems which is correctly referred to as DDP-IP (see A-15).
KIP is used to send AppleTalk protocols from one LocalTalk network through a
gateway over an IP network (or the Internet if need be) through another
gateway and finally to another LocalTalk network.
A-17. What is DDP-IP?
On Macintosh Localtalk networks, IP packets are sent over the Localtalk
lines within the Appletalk DDP protocol packets. For IP to work over
LocalTalk you must have an IPGATEWAY on your LocalTalk network which is
usually an independent piece of hardware which acts as a gateway passing IP
around the localTalk network and beyond (eg. onto an Ethernet). Some common
hardware systems are Cayman's Gatorbox and Shiva's FastPath units (~$2000/
unit).
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Section B. Basics
B-1. What are the different specification types of drivers available?
The following are common specification types of drivers available:
Packet drivers - freely available set of drivers on the net maintained by
ftp Software and also in part by Russell Nelson of Crynwyr.
NDIS v2.0 & v3.0 - Network Device Interface Specification developed by
Microsoft and 3Com. Version 2.0 is the current version for
MS-Windows and Windows for Workgroups. Version 3.0 is the new
specification for MS-Windows NT.
ODI - Open Driver Interface developed by Novell, Inc.
SLIP, PPP - These are more protocol specifications for serial and
distance links. Both are defined in the Internet RFCs. PPP is
described initially in RFC 1172 with related descriptions in 1331,
1332, 1333, 1334, 1376, 1377, 1378, and several newer ones. SLIP is
described in RFC 1055.
B-3. What are packet drivers? Where do I get them?
Packet drivers are the link between your Network interface card and your
TCP/IP protocol stack (of each application). They are a low level driver
specification with support for many different Network interface cards.
The packet driver specification is maintained by FTP Software and is
available from:
[Docs & executables]
ftp://oak.oakland.edu/pub/msdos/pktdrvr/pktd11.zip
[Sources]
ftp://oak.oakland.edu/pub/msdos/pktdrvr/pktd11a.zip
ftp://oak.oakland.edu/pub/msdos/pktdrvr/pktd11b.zip
Russ Nelson of Crynwyr, Inc. (nelson@crynwyr.com) also maintains many packet
drivers. He also maintains the FAQ available for packet drivers
on comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc. This FAQ can be received by ftp from the
following sites:
seagull.rtd.com:/pub/tcpip/other-faqs/pktdrv.faq
Here's Russ' little scphiel on how to get the packet drivers.
B-4. Can I run packet drivers with (PC)NFS?
Yes. See chart G-1 the list of packages capable of using packet
drivers.
B-5. Can I run (PC)NFS over SLIP?
Yes. See chart G-1 for availability in the different products for PC
systems.
Macintosh systems can run NFS/Share from Intercon with the InterSLIP package
copyrighted & freely distributed by Intercon available from:
ftp.intercon.com: InterCon/sales/InterSLIP1.0fc3.sea.hqx
This will run with MacTCP 1.1.1.
B-6. Can (PC)NFS run with NDIS drivers?
Yes. See chart G-1 for availability in the different products.
B-7. Can I run (PC)NFS at the same time as CUTCP or NCSA Telnet?
Yes. You need to run PKTMUX.EXE. This will multiplex connections between two
different applications using packet drivers. PKTMUX allows one to run
multiple TCP/IP protocol stacks.
There is also a version of CU/TCP which runs over SunSelect's PC-NFS and is
available via ftp from:
ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc/pc-nfs/cutcp/CUTCP.ZIP
B-8. Can (PC)NFS run with NDIS drivers?
Yes. Please look at chart G-1 for compatibility with different products.
B-9. Can I use (PC)NFS to mount a diskless PC from a remote server?
Yes. The following products have this capability:
PC-NFS
PC/TCP
BW-NFS
AIR for Windows
Piper/IP
Lan WorkPlace
PC-NFS can be installed partially onto disk to access network applications
like telnet, ftp, etc. placed on a remote server.
PC/TCP also has PROM chips for ethernet cards for diskless PCs to boot with
network services.
In Europe, BOOTP PROMs are available from Dirk Keoppen [dirk@incom.de].
These PROMs support a large number of Ethernet cards and works with many
versions of (PC)NFS including that from SunSelect, FTP Software, Novell and
Microsoft LAN Manager.
B-10. Can (PC)NFS run over token ring?
Yes. See chart G-1 for availability in the different products.
B-11. Can I use my 3C509 Etherlink III card with (PC)NFS ?
Yes. The 3C509 has both NDIS and ODI drivers shipping with the box. Trouble is
some are not where they are supposed to be. The NDIS drivers are in the
following directory on the floppy :
A:\MSLANMAN.DOS\DRIVERS\ETHERNET
Also, a packet driver is obtainable for this card (also see B-1)
B-12 Can I PC-NFS SLIP at higher baud rates than 9600 ?
The built-in slip driver will not allow any higher speeds than 9600, but there
is a way around this. Instead of using SLIP.SYS, you can always configure
PC-NFS in packet driver mode (look for the PKTD.SYS shim) and use a shareware
slip driver than conforms to the packet driver specification. Ask archie
about SLIPPER.EXE or ETHERSL.COM.
B-13 Can I access an MSCDEX CD-ROM with PC-NFS ?
No, but you can fool your PC by using an 'MSCDEX simulator', i.e. a small
utility that will redirect the interrupt used by MSCDEX and return constant
values. Does not work will all the published CD's, but is worth the try.
Mounting an ISO9660 CDROM over NFS is not always sufficient to get full access
to the application residing on it. Some utilies refer to MSCDEX for various
reasons. So, can you use the NFS-mounted volume and still have full MSCDEX
access ? No, but you can fool your PC by using an 'MSCDEX simulator', i.e. a
small utility that will redirect the interrupt used by MSCDEX and return
constant values. Does not work will all the published CD's, but is worth the
try. These utils are obtainable from ftp.york.ac.uk (/pub/pc-nfs/CD-rom)
B-14. Can I run NDIS over Packet drivers?
Yes. You can run packet drivers along with the DISPKT9.COM shim and run the
program as a generic NDIS driver.
B-15. Which is better NDIS or ODI?
After a small discussion, it seems that ODI is generally faster and it does
not need be to loaded in the config.sys which helps enormously during
debugging and development).
Both NDIS and ODI are widely available with most Ethernet cards and many
Token-Ring cards as well.
ODI however has one slight problem when it comes to development. Although it
is an "open" specification and is available via ftp, Russel Nelson of
Crynwyr pointed out that:
Message-ID:
"
The documentation for Novell's driver development kit is available
from dev_docs/lan_drv. This should not be mistaken for a
specification of an "open" interface. If you want to write an "ODI
driver" (that is, the thing that adapter manufacturers ship), you
must purchase the Lan Driver Development Kit for $7,000. When I
suggested to Novell that they should document the LSL MLID
interface, they seemed somewhat bemused, as if to say "Whyever would
you want that?? -- just buy the DDK!"
Apparently, there *is* no "ODI driver" spec -- Novell doesn't even
have an internal document for the LSL MLID interface.
"
You can FTP the NDIS specification from:
vax.ftp.com
You can FTP the ODI specification from:
sjf-lwp.sjf.novell.com:/dev_docs/lan_drv/
sjf-lwp.sjf.novell.com:/dev_docs/pstacks/
[email to Dave Murphy dmurphy@novell.com]
B-16. *How can I connect a LocalTalk network to Macintoshes on the Ethernet?
Macintoshes on a LocalTalk network need a gateway to communicate with others
on an Ethernet. Macintoshes on Ethernet send Appletalk packets in Ethertalk
format (which is an IEEE 802.2 packet). These are picked up by the gateway
and sent over the localtalk to those machines as Localtalk packets. Most
gateways also have additional functionality; they can also send IP packets
or KIP packets. Cayman GatorBoxes and Shiva FastPath's are the two most
common ones.
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Section C. Server
C-1. What is pcnfsd? What is pcnfsdv2? What is BWNFSD?
PCNFSD is the server software run on remote systems for service access such
as User authorization and print services. PCNFSD is freely distributed. It
was originally designed for SunSelect's PC-NFS software package but has been
accepted by the X/Open committee as a semi-standard for (PC)NFS.
PCNFSDv2 is the current version of this server software.
BWNFSD is an alternate server package from Beame & Whiteside, Inc. which is
also freely distributable.
C-2. Where can I get PCNFSD for my server system?
PCNFSD has been ported to many different platforms. The following is a list
of FTP sites for the different versions:
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Platform Location
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
SunOS 4.x, Solaris, bcm.tmc.edu
Solbourne, src.doc.ic.ac.uk
NeXTStep ftp.york.ac.uk:/pun/pv/pc-nfs/RPC.pcnfs/*
Ultrix 4.2 bcm.tmc.edu
IRIX/SYSV sgi.sgi.com:/support/pcnfsd.sysV [unsupported]
ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc/pc-nfs/RPC.pcnfsd/*
AIX 3.2 Call IBM and ask for PTF# U412556
AIX 3.2.1 Call IBM and ask for PTF# U419359
AIX 3.2.3 Call IBM and ask for PTF# U414701
MIPS platforms ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc/pc-nfs/RPC.pcnfsd/*
IBM MVS Call IBM and ask for PTF# UY84244 [pcnfsd v1 only]
OpenVMS 5.5 DEC TCP/IP v3.0 [product]
SCO Unix v3.2 SCO NFS [product]
HP 9000 [HP-UX 9.x] HP-UX NFS [product]
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
There is a combined version of PCNFSD v2 for the following systems: Sun,
Ultrix, MIPS, SGI, BSD, SVR4 which is available from:
ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc-nfs/RPC.pcnfs/pcnfsd.tar.Z
BWNFSD (V3.0f) is available from:
dorm.rutgers.edu: /pub/msdos/bws/bwnfsd
ftp.bws.com: /pub/bw/bwnfsd
C-4. How can I test NFS performance?
The following information does not contain information on LADDIS which is a
newer test suite for NFS systems. Please look at C-10 for information on
LADDIS.
The following is a post from the archives from a while back which answers
this directly:
As it turns out, there's a surprising amount of software floating around
that looks at NFS. Such software includes:
nfswatch -- curses-based promiscuous NFS monitor. This program
prints out a running tally of how many of each type of
request comes in, and of which file systems are the most
heavily used. Nfswatch can be used to look at traffic to
individual files, too. This is anonymously FTPable from
icarus.riacs.edu.
server_stat -- a NFS monitor program that runs on Encore Multimaxes.
This shows information on hosts, users, and NFS request
types performed. This is capable of talking to a
rpc.srvstatd process on another machine, though I don't know
of other machines that support the Encore srvstatd program.
nfsstone -- the Encore NFS benchmark, as presented in:
Shein, B., Callahan, M., Woodbury, P., NFSSTONE: A Network
File Server Performance Benchmark, Usenix Summer 1989
conference proceedings, pp 269-275.
This is a synthetic benchmark load, with an empirically-
determined mix of operations.
nhfsstone -- the Legato NFS benchmark. This is also a synthetic
load generator, based again on a particular observed
load mix. You can get this by sending mail like:
To: request@legato.com
Subject: send nhfsstone
path path_back_to_me
I had some problems getting this, though I was ultimately
successful.
NetMetrix (formerly EtherView) --
a Sun-based packet spy that is capable of doing some
characterization of NFS load and response times. This is
a commercial product. For more information, contact:
Hewlett Packard, Network Test Division
One Tara Blvd., Suite 403, Nashua NH 03062
(603) 888-7000
LANWatch -- another packet spy, from FTP Software, Inc. This can
filter out NFS traffic; I don't know what can be done with
the packets though once they're filtered out. For more
information, call FTP at (800) 282-4FTP, or send mail to
info@ftp.com.
[ There's lots of other packet spies, too, and I suspect that most
of them can do at least a little bit with NFS packets. ]
The problem with most of the programs above (except for the synthetic
loads, to which this just doesn't apply, since they're not NFS monitors) is
that you don't get raw data points which you can then analyze. You get the
data that the authors thought you might want... and which might not be what
you really want. There's much to be said for the approach of dumping traces
and lots of timestamps into a file, then providing (a) programs that analyze
such files, and (b) the format of the files, so that people can write their
own analysis programs. On a PC-based packet spy, this is a hard thing to
do.
There's a fair number of people (at the major NFS server vendors, Sun,
DEC, and a few universities) who are also poking around at the problem.
Some people are looking at filesystem activity tracers, which (in addition
to being interesting research on its own) could provide still more reams of
interesting statistics when combined with a NFS tracer.
The consensus was that the best way to trace NFS operations is to do so
via a promiscuous packet spy. Such an approach has many advantages. First,
if you don't have kernel sources, you can still get useful information.
Second, because you don't instrument the server kernel, you don't have to
worry about influencing the experiment in adverse ways. However, there's
some chance (depending on your hardware and on how fast you make your
software go) that you'll drop packets. The 'hack the server kernel'
approach won't drop any requests, but violates the above constraints. I
suspect that the best way to gather statistics is by using *both* methods of
measurement, then comparing the results.
I was also referred (twice) to the SunOS 4.1 NFS implementation, and in
particular the adaptive NFS retransmission code therein. These numbers might
be interesting to see, once 4.1 is more easily available.
Of course, the usual Unix file access pattern (i.e., lots of short-lived
files in /tmp, most of which get written, then read once, then deleted)
information applies. This was mentioned by several people; one reference
given was:
Floyd, Rick, Short-Term File Reference Patterns in a UNIX Environment,
University of Rochester Department of Computer Science TR 177,
March 1986.
Another good paper (with not much data on NFS, though) is:
Lazowska et al, "File Access Performance of Diskless Workstations",
ACM TOCS, volume 4, number 3, August 1986, pp 238-268.
Not a whole lot was said about general models of NFS access. Most places
that had any models had derived them from some number of studies and from
the output of nfsstat, or so it seemed. It does seem that there's a few
general trends, however. There are some sites (including ours, I suspect)
that fall into the low-utilization, few write model, where the server rarely
satisfies more than one client's NFS requests in some given time slot.
There's also the high-utilization, many write model, which is what I'm sure
a lot of sites see. One responder said that once one's clients have enough
memory, the buffer cache ends up reducing the number of random reads going
on, so one is left with the reads that happen to start up a new process, and
with writes.
Those who talked about models generally said that they think there's
almost as many models as there are networks using NFS. I suspect that this
is true, but that perhaps some useful information (or at least methods) can
be abstracted out, regardless.
A number of people also suggested that I talk to Legato and to Auspex and
see what they've done in this area. I have a couple of papers from Auspex;
at a first glance, I don't think they look too closely at NFS load
characterization (at least, not as I define that), but instead concentrate
on what Auspex did to get better speed out of their NFS file server. The
Auspex paper titled, "Benchmark Methodology and Preliminary Performance
Specifications for the Auspex NS5000 Network Server" (Bruce Nelson, Auspex
TR #2, October 1989) has more load characterization information than do the
other Auspex TRs I have, but it still doesn't have a whole lot. (By the
way, I'm not implying that Auspex hasn't looked at load characterization,
because they obviously have. I just don't have the fine details of their
results.) I also did some talking with people at Legato; their comments and
models show up in the nhfsstone benchmark, or are otherwise repeated above.
-Steve
Spoken: Steve Miller Domain: steve@umiacs.umd.edu UUCP: uunet!mimsy!steve
Phone: +1-301-454-1808 USPS: UMIACS, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
C-5. What is NHFSSTONES? Where can I get it?
"Nhfsstone" (pronounced n-f-s-stone, the "h" is silent) is a
copyrighted product of Legato Systems, Incorporated and is provided for
unrestricted use and distribution of the binary program derived from
it.
nhfsstone is a NFS load generating program. It is used on an NFS client
to generate an artificial load with a particular mix of NFS operations.
It reports the average response time of the server in milliseconds per
call and the load in calls per second. The program adjusts its calling
patterns based on the client's kernel NFS statistics and the elapsed
time. Load can be generated over a given time or number of NFS calls.
The current version of the program can only be compiled on 4.x BSD
based UNIX systems.
To obtain the nhfsstone source shar file, send email to
"request@Legato.COM" or {sun,uunet}!legato!request. The Subject line
and/or body of the message should have contain the command line:
send unsupported nhfsstone
Note the exact spelling of "nhfsstone". To issue delivery, you should
also add a line of the form:
path </pre
where is the preferred email address to use. Generally,
using a domain-style email address works best. A uucp path starting
with "sun!" or "uunet!" can also be used.
Joseph Moran
Legato Systems Inc.
260 Sheridan Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94306
(415) 329-7886
mojo@Legato.COM or {sun,uunet}!legato!mojo
C-7. How many nfsd's & biod's should I run on my server?
Default number of nfsd's & biod's is 8
Suggested Equation for nfsd's is:
[number of disks exported] + [number of network interfaces]
Suggested maximum number of nfsd's runinng on a Sun system (SunOS 4.x)
without any accelerators is 22. Any more does not help in performance.
C-8. What is asynchronous I/O? How can I modify my NFS server system to
asynchronous I/O?
Asynchronous I/O (ASYNC) means that information comes and leaves at unannounced
intervals whereas synchronous I/O (SYNC) has a predetermined interval when
I/O can actually pass.
NFS has been used both through SYNC and ASYNC communications. The original
specification stated that SYNC I/O should be used although did not bind to
it. This results in slower communications during transfers. ASYNC creates
problems in that, if for some reason communications should fail (eg., your
NFS server crashes), there may be inconsistency in the data. The bright side
of ASYNC is that performance increases by a great deal.
Many implementations of NFS using asynchronous I/O are available. Despite
the disadvantage, the number of complaints about data loss due to this are
far fewer than the reports of performance increase. However, be warned that
asynchronous I/O is a direct violation of the NFS specification from X/Open
which states that all procedures of the NFS protocol are synchronous. This
makes such a server no longer compliant to X/Open.
On a SunOS 4.1.x system you can modify the synchronous operation of NFS into
ASYNC by the following method:
# adb -wk /vmunix /dev/mem << _EOC_
rfs_write+258W 0x96102000
_EOC_
To change it back to Sync operation:
#adb -wk /vmunix /dec/mem << _EOC_
rfs_write+258W 0x96102004
_EOC_
C-9. What is a good NFS server?
Network Appliances Corp have recently come out with a product which they
call an NFS appliance, the FAServer. It is a 486 based system with an EISA
bus, 16 MB RAM, 2 MB NVRAM, and a RAID subsystem. The RAID subsystem keeps
up to 20 logical copies of the entire file system. They have a proprietory
operating system which does only simple management and disk serving.
The pricing is about $20,000.
C-10. What is LADDIS?
LADDIS is multi-vendor and vendor neutral SPEC NFS Benchmack designed by
engineers from Leato, Auspex, Data General, DEC, Interphase and Sun [LADDIS
is an abbreviation using their first letters]. This covers local Ethernet or
FDDI nets and not WAN.
An excerpt from the LADDIS abstract:
"
The purpose of the LADDIS benchmark is to give users a credible and
undisputed test of NFS performance, and to give vendors a publishable
standard performance measure that customers can use for load planning,
system configuration, and equipment buying decisions. Toward this end,
the LADDIS benchmark is being adopted by SPEC (the System Performance
Evaluation Cooperative, creators of SPECmarks) as the first member of
SPEC's System-level File Server (SFS) benchmark suite."
"
LADDIS is available directly from SPEC. Here is the contact person:
Name: Dianne Dean (SPEC contact person at NCGA)
Phone: 703-698-9600 Ext 318
Fax: 703-560-2752
Email: spec-ncga@cup.portal.com
Mail: SPEC
c/o NCGA
2722 Merrilee Drive, Suite 200
Fairfax, VA 22031-4499
There is about a $1000 charge for the distribution tape.
C-11. What is XRemote & LBX?
These are specifications for running the X11 windows system over lower
bandwidth connections like serial lines.
XRemote is a private specification developed by NCD. Inc. It is available in
commercial packages.
LBX (Low-Bandwidth X) is the specification also contributed by NCD to the
X11 standard forthcoming next year, ie. X11R6. You can get information on
LBX via FTP from:
export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/LBX-xconf93-paper.ps.Z
This is not a formal document only an informative disclosure.
Running a low bandwidth X protocol over something like Ethernet would not be
useful since the compression algorithms involved would incur additional CPU
usage and so you would not get much of a performance advantage at all.
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Section D: Applications
D-1. Where can I get mail with (PC)NFS?
POPmail versions 2 and 3 and SMTP are the most common mail protocols for
(PC)NFS and TCP/IP systems for PCs. Please look at the chart G-5 for mail
systems.
Here are some additional third-party mail packages that work with PC-NFS:
a. Open Systems Mail by Pinesoft (US) [pinesoft@netcom.com]
b. Mail-It by Unipalm (UK) [tomk@unipalm.co.uk]
Tom Kermeen
Unipalm Ltd
216 Cambridge Science Park
Milton Road
Cambridge CB4 4WA
UK
Tel#: 44 223 250100
Fax#: 44 223 250101
[Site license is available for L5000 (five-thousand pounds)]
Distributed in the US by:
Unipress Software
2025 Lincoln Highway,
Edison, NJ 08817
USA
(800) 222-0550
info@unipress.com
c. WinELM was written by Peter Churchyard of Imperial College,
London. It is available for winsock systems from the ftp site
ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc-nfs/Mail/winelm.zip
lister.cc.ic.ac.uk:/pub/winelm
There are also DOS, PC-NFS and WinSock API versions there.
d. ECSMail is a commercial package which supports IMAP & MIME
contact steve@edm.isac.ca. I also supports Macintosh & Unix
You can get a demo version of ECSMail from
ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc-nfs/Mail/ecs.zip
[The demo requires an IMAP daemon such as in the Pine mailer]
e. Cin'etic Mail Manager works directly with mounted file systems
and sends mail via different setups like rsh on PC-NFS. Its
publicaly availble via ftp (cmm21f.zip). You can also contact
them at:
Cinetic@speedy.cam.org
71460,666 (Compuserve)
This package currently supports PathWay, PC/TCP, PC-NFS, FSUUCP
by Fubar Systems, UUPC/extended by Drew Derbyshire. Its
configuarble for other systems as well.
In addition, for mail arrival notifiers, there is WinBiff (version 2.0)
for MS-Windows 3.x that works with PC-NFS, UUPC, Waffle and FSUUCP. This is
available from:
ftp.cica.indiana.edu: /pub/pc/win3/mirrors/wnbff20.zip
wsmr-simtel20.army.mil: PD1: WNBFF20.ZIP
There is a winsock STMP server available at:
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/micro/pc-stuff/ms-windows/winsock/apps/wsmtpd16.zip
D-2. Where can I get a news client for (PC)NFS?
USENET News (NNTP) clients are available specifically from:
Super-TCP [Z-16] - Windows version
WinQVT [Z-22] - Windows version
Chameleon [Z-3] - DOS version.
There is a public domain program called WinVN which uses the Winsock API.
This means that just about any product which has the Winsock.dll should be
able to run it. It is available from:
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/micro/pc-stuff/ms-windows/winsock/apps/winvnstd080.zip
Trump and WinTrump are other popular packages for news available from
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/micro/pc-stuff/ms-windows/winsock/apps/*
A simple news client by Stan Barber and a client by Kjettil Otter Olsen
(with source code) are avalable from:
ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc-nfs/news
WinVN is a newsreader for Windows 3.x systems publically available from:
titan.ksc.nasa.gov: [anonymous.pub.win3.winvn] (Its a VAX host)
Macintosh newsreaders include:
TheNews
Newsreader
MacNews
Nuntius
All are available from:
mac.archive.umich.edu:/mac/util/comm/
D-3. Where can I get an FTP server for (PC)NFS?
The following systems have FTP servers:
BW-TCP, PC-NFS, PC/TCP, Chameleon, PathWay, Super-TCP, IBM TCP/IP,
Lanera TCPOpen.
A PD NLM FTP Server for Netware 3.11 is available from:
novell.felk.cvut.cs:/appl/pub/nw311/ftpd/ftpd18.zip
D-4 Where can I get RWALL for my (PC)NFS system?
As far as memory serves me there currently are no implementations of the
rwall command as in Sun ONC on (PC)NFS systems, except possibly one for
the Macintosh NFS/Share product from Intercon.
Sorry folks. If anyone has information on this one please mail me, there are
people who want to know.
Here is what Geoff Arnold had to say about it back in 1989:
"
One of the questions I am often asked about PC-NFS is "how come
there's no way for me to find out when a particular file server
is going down? Unix users get notified." I point out that (at least
on SunOS) the mechanism used is "rwall", which is an RPC service, and that
for size reasons we can't afford to embed a version of rpc.rwalld in
PC-NFS. This explanation is reasonable, but unsatisfactory.
My reaction was to say "let's ask the NIC for a UDP port so that
we can use it to send unsolicited messages to PCs running PC-NFS."
That would certainly do the trick. However, a moment's thought
reveals that the problem is bigger than just PC-NFS. Surprisingly,
there is at present no simple ubiquitous message protocol to fulfil this
function. rwall is fine for SunOS and other ONC licensees, but
what about other systems? Do I have to rely upon SMTP? That's
incompatible with the idea of broadcasting a simple message
such as "The backbone will be down for five minutes at 12:00
to replace a bridge."
This could be trivially simple or slightly more involved
(but still simple). The trivial approach is to dedicate
a UDP port for unsolicited system messages. Anyone could send one,
in a single datagram, and the listener process would be responsible
for delivering it as seemed appropriate for the system (dialog
box, console message, etc.) A more complete approach would be to
define a formal protocol so that it would be possible to convey
information about the coding of the message, message length (so that
TCP could be used instead) and so forth. [If the spec exceeds
one page, it's too complicated.]
Comments?
Geoff
"
D-5. Where can I get an INT-14 redirector for (PC)NFS?
INT-14 redirectors are available with various (PC)NFS products including:
BW-NFS [Z-2]
PC/TCP [Z-14]
Chamelon NFS [Z-3]
There is a version for PC-NFS v5.0 (by Geoff Arnold) at:
ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc-nfs/utils/int14/*
sorokin.anu.edu.au:/pub/nfs5-addons/int14.zip
An INT-14 redirectory for WATTCP is available from:
dorm.rutgers.edu:/pub/msdos/wattcp/apps.zip
D-6. Where can I get YPPASSWD for PC-NFS?
There is a version of YPPASSWD for PC-NFS v5.0 at:
ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc-nfs/utils/yppasswd/yppasswd.zip
D-7. Where can I get IBM 3270 terminal for (PC)NFS?
QWS3270 is a shareware Winsock compatible TN 3270 emulator available from:
ftp.ccs.queensu.ca:/pub/msdos/tcpip/qws3270.zip
Please see chart in section G-4 under TN3270.
D-8. Where can I get X-Windows for (PC)NFS?
The following X-windows products are available:
For DOS:
Product Cost Company Version
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Xvision $395 VisionWare Soft, Inc X11R5
PC-Xware $545 NCD, Inc. X11R5
PC DECwindows ?? DEC X11R4
PC Xsight ?? Locus Computing X11R4
Micro X-Lite $75 StarNet Comm. Corp. X11R4
X Appeal $350 Xtreme X11R5
Xoftware ?? AGE Logic X11R4
PC X-Kit $249 XLink X11R5
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
For MS-Windows:
Product Cost Company Version
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
HCL-eXceed ?? Hummingbird Software X11R5
eXcursion ?? DEC X11R5
MultiView/X ?? JSB Corp. X11R4
PC-Xview $445 NCD Inc. X11R5
Xoftware ?? AGE Logic X11R4
eXodus $295 White Pine Software X11R5
ReflectionX $469 WRQ, Inc. X11R5
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
For Macintosh:
Product Cost Company Version
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
MacX ?? Apple Computer Corp. X11R5
eXodus $295 White Pines Software X11R5
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
For OS/2:
Product Cost Company Version
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
X Windows $150 IBM X11R5
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
D-10. Where can I get a database that works with (PC)NFS?
Any database would be able to use the NFS mounted drive as long as it
recognizes it as a local drive. Most network versions of a database however
will not work unless they specifically say they support (PC)NFS & TCP/IP.
DBMS's known to work with (PC)NFS include SQL*Net (Oracle), and Sybase for
DOS.
PC-NFS is known to work with Paradox for Windows & DOS for network file
storage.
D-11. Where can I get a WAIS client for (PC)NFS?
WAIS Manager 3.0 by Kebin Gamiel (representing MCNC CNIDR and UNC-Chapel
Hill) has recently been announced which is WinSock compliant. Features
include multi-format handling capability, relevance feedback and a new
interface with Toolbar for quicker access.
You can get this via ftp from:
sunsite.unc.edu: /pub/micro/pc-stuff/ms-windows/winsock/apps/waisman3.zip
ftp.cnidr.org: /pub/NIDR.tools/wais/pc/windows/waisman3.zip
There is a WAIS client for PC/TCP at:
calvin.sfasu.edu: /pub/dos/network/pc-tcp/wais.zip
WinWAIS is another winsock version of WAIS by EINET is available from:
ftp.einet.net:/einet/pc/ewais155.zip
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/micro/pc-stuff/ms-windows/winsock/apps/winwais21.zip
MacWAIS is a MacTCP compatible application for System 6 and 7 by EINET:
ftp.einet.net:/einet/mac/macwais1.25.sea.hqx
D-12. Where can I get an archie client for (PC)NFS?
A ported version of c-archie is available for PC-NFS at the ftp sites:
bcm.tmc.edu: /nfs/archie.exe
ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc-nfs/utils/archie.exe [Binaries]
ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc-nfs/utils/archsrc.zip [Source]
This version works for PC-NFS v4.0a
There is a version for PC/TCP at:
calvin.sfasu.edu:/pub/dos/network/ftp-pctcp/archie.zip
D-13. Where can I get a gopher client for (PC)NFS?
nfsgopher is available from bcm.tmc.edu in /nfs which will work with PC-NFS
gopher for MS-Windows is available for PC-NFS systems in an alpha release
from the ftp site:
lister.cc.ic.ac.uk: pub/wingopher/{readme.txt,gopher.exe}
ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc-nfs/utils/gophersfx.exe
source available in ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc-nfs/utils/gofer.zip
HGopher (Hampson's Gopher) is a client for gopher systems. The following
version has been tested at ANU:
sorokin.anu.edu.au: /pub/nfs5-addons/hgopher.exe
It is originally distributed from:
lister.cc.ic.ac.uk: /pub/wingopher
There is a gopher client for PC/TCP at the following site:
calvin.sfasu.edu:/pub/dos/network/ftp-pctcp/goph1_05.exe
gophbook from UNC is an Asymetrix Toolbox application which uses winsock.dll
and is available from the ftp site:
sunsite.unc.edu: /pub/micro/pc-stuff/ms-windows/winsock/apps/gophbook.zip
D-14. Where can I get a WWW (World Wide Web) client for (PC)NFS?
There is a version of such a client for PC-NFS at
ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc-nfs/utils/wwwpcnfs.zip
Winsock clients are now commonly available and should work with any PC
TCP/IP system which supports winsock. Some winsock clients are Cello and NCSA Mosaic.
D-15 Where can I get X.25 for (PC)NFS ?
The Software Forge developed a PC/TCP-IP adapter for X25, which is a hardware/
software bundle that :
conforms to PDS specification 1.09
conforms to RFC 877/1356 (TCP-IP over X25)
supports PC/TCP and PC-NFS (probably any PDS-compliant software)
does address resolution of 100 Internet adresses (expandable)
can have up to 20 simultaneous sessions
For more information, contact UniPalm (+44(0)223250100) or
unipalm@unipalm.co.uk
The Software Group Ltd also makes X.25 software for PC systems. They can be
contacted at:
2 Director Court, Suite 201
Woodbridge, Ontario,
Canada L4L 3Z5
(418) 856-238
(418) 856-0242
or email scott@group.com
There is also an X.25 package available with Super-TCP from Frontier
Technologies [Z-16].
D-16 Where can I get NEWGRP.EXE for PC-NFS ?
NEWGRP.EXE is a utility written by Geoff Arnold that does the equivalent of
the Unix newgrp command. See man newgrp if you are really interested. It can
be ftp-ed from some of the ftp sites found in C-2.
D-17 Where can I get AUTOCONF for PC-NFS ?
AUTOCONF is a shareware utility designed and implementes by Henk Swaters that
allows system administrators to define an NIS map (pcnfs.config) that holds
the equivalent of DRIVES.BAT. The NIS map works on a user-basis and the
mounting and unmounting of existing resources is performed trough a single
.EXE file.
AUTOCONF.ZIP is available on ftp.york.ac.uk in /pub/pc-nfs. You do need at
least PKUNZIP 2.04G to unzip it. What follows is the README.
AUTOCONF 14-06-93
autoconf utility for pcnfs
==========================
NAME
autoconf.exe - configure PCNFS-client network drives and printers
DISCRIPTION
This program is made to configure the network drives and printers
of a PCNFS-client from the NIS database. The name of the NIS-map
is pcnfs.config. Each line of the pcnfs.config file defines user
or group information and has the format
username/groupname list-of-drives/printdevices
where list-of-drives/printdevices is either another username/
groupname, or a network drive/printdevice:
(drive:,hostname:/path,/option,option..)
or
(printdevice:,hostname:printername,/option,option..)
example:
----------------------------------------------------------------
all\
(g:,calibra:/export/MSDOS/WinEnv)
printer_staff\
(lpt1:,pslw1:lw1,/fmt=raw)
smith\
all (f:,calibra:/export/MSDOS/DosEnv)\
printer_staff
----------------------------------------------------------------
When user smith executes autoconf.exe he mounts the following
environment:
g: calibra:/export/MSDOS/WinEnv
f: calibra:/export/MSDOS/DosEnv
lpt1: pslw1:lw1 /fmt=raw
USAGE
A known user has to be logged in, otherwise the program
terminates. If the program is executed without any options
the username is used as keyvalue. It is possible to give
one or more keyvalues as argument of the program. These
arguments can be either usernames or groupnames. By Default
the program unmounts a drive before mounting a new drive on the
same device. The argument /n or /nounmount switches this
option off. The argument /h or /help prints out a help screen
and terminates the program. There will be no mount or unmount
command.
example with the same auto.config as above:
autoconf printer_staff /n
or
autoconf /nounmount printer_staff
These equivalent commands try to mount:
lpt1: pslw1:lw1 /fmt=raw
There will be no unmount command and if there is already
a network device on lpt1: there are no changes made.
AUTHOR
Henk Swaters Dept. of Computer Science University of Twente.
swaters@cs.utwente.nl
HISTORY
autoconf.exe
-------------
14-06-1993 verion 1.0
D-18. Where can I get a remote backup utility for (PC)NFS?
WATTCP has a backup utility called "rtar" with its applications
distribution.
The following commercial packages have similar facilities:
PC/TCP, Super-TCP, BW-TCP, Lanera TCPOpen, XLink PC-Link
D-19. Which (PC)NFS packages support DNS [named]?
Please see the chart G-3.
D-20. Where can I get a traceroute program?
BW-TCP has a traceroute program with their package.
There is a traceroute program available for WATTCP at:
polyslo.calpoly.edu:/pub/mdurkin/trtb91b.zip
This is for an older version of WATTCP but is being converted to the new
version currently.
D-21. Where can I get an LPD program?
For commercial and some PD packages which have an LPD program please look at
the chart G-7.
There's a Winsock-compliant LPD called NLPD available via ftp from:
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/micro/pc-stuff/ms-windows/winsock/apps/wslpd.exe
A PC-NFS LPD version is in ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc-nfs/utils
D-22. Where can I get an LPR program?
For commercial and some shareware/freeware applications please look at G-6.
There is a windows LPR program called WLPRSP.EXE which spools print jobs to
LPD's on the network correctly and removes any CTRL-D's (^D's) from
postscript files if needed (a little neat feature). You can FTP from
wuarchive.wustl.edu:/systems/ibmpc/win3/util/wlprsp30.zip
A freeware Macintosh LPR is available from:
mac.archive.umich.edu:/mac/util/print/lpr1.2.cpt.hqx
D-23. Where can I get an NSLOOKUP program?
Please look at the chart G-8 for commercial and some shareware packages.
Micheal Durkin has written one which works with packet drivers. You can ftp
it from:
polyslo.calpoly.edu /pub/mdurkin/nslb0a1.zip
The COMMSET package also has an NSLookup application that works with packet
drivers. This is available from
ftp.cybercon.nb.ca
D-24. Where can I get a WWW server?
There is a Windows 3.1 and NT 3.1 server available from the site:
ftp.microdyne.com:/incoming/serweb03.zip
ftp.cica.indiana.edu:/pub/pc/win3/winsock/serweb03.zip
with both executable and source code in Vusual C++.
D-25. Where can I get a Whois client?
An NT version is avialable at:
ftp.caltech.edu:/pub/heathh/nt/winsock/whois.zip
Please look at the chart G-5 for commercial and some shareware packages.
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Section E: Problems & General Q&A
E-2. Can I use DNS instead of NIS with PC-NFS?
No. PC-NFS currently only supports the Sun ONC NIS product. (Even NIS+ is
not fully compatible).
DNS is available with other packages.
E-3. Why do versions of (PC)NFS not follow symbolic links?
This is because according to the NFS definition, filenames are handled by
the NFS client. In some (PC)NFS if the files in the symbolic links may not
be in the same exported directory as the directory the link is in. NFS
mounted files appear as drives on the clients and the clients cannot parse
any files which appear higher up on the tree or on a different tree segment
than that of the NFS exported drive (from the server).
Certain versions can be clever enough to counter this problem by their own
methods but it is generally accepted that (PC)NFS systems do not support
symbolically linked files.
E-4. PC-NFS v4.0 has trouble with Cntl-S, Cntl-Q.
This has been fixed in release 4.0a and 5.0. For 4.0a please look at the ftp
sites [H-5]
E-5. PC-NFS v4.0 has trouble with redrawing windows.
This has been fixed in release 4.0a and 5.0. For 4.0a please look at the ftp
sites [H-5]
E-6. PC-NFS v4.0 doesn't allow me to access the local printer when I have
network printers.
This is because the default setup for printers in PC-NFS v4.0 is as a
network printer. In the print manager choose the printer and change the
setup. At the bottom of the setup screen for the printer should be a
checkbox indicating that it is a network printer. Uncheck this box.
E-7. I cannot delete any file that PC-NFS makes with a ~ (tilde) in it.
To get rid of the problem, in your config.sys, run pcnfs.sys as:
C:\NFS\PCNFS.SYS /c^
where c reassign the immediately following character. [In this case to the
character '^']
E-8. PC-NFS says that it cannot open any more files even when the limit in
autoexec.bat is set higher.
PC-NFS uses its open own file limit and not the DOS system open file limit. To
modify this limit use the /f flag as such in the config.sys:
C:\NFS\PCNFS.SYS /f50
The limit here is set to 50. The maximum is 64.
E-9. Can (PC)NFS mount file systems which are bigger than 2 GB?
Most server file systems do not handle such large file systems, but this is
possible with various software enhancements like Disk-Suite for Sun systems.
NFS clients on the other need not know how big the actual remote file system
is. It only receives information on how big the individual files are and not
the file system itself.
The Network Appliance server has one partition under which all drives can be
mounted for NFS exportation.
E-10. What is NFS/TCP? Will it work with my NFS product?
NFS/TCP is a different type of the original NFS protocol which uses the TCP
protocol as opposed to the originally specified UDP protocol. NFS over UDP
works well over a single LAN but is as not suitable for multiple LANs or
WANs as NFS/TCP. TCP's windowing of packets capability and reliability gives
it an advantage. In UDP dropped packets are not acknowledged between the two
hosts, however, TCP retransmits all dropped packets. One more aspect of TCP
(which is more idealistic than real) is the congestion control capacity
between routers for TCP which prevents overflooding of a congested network
link. In NFS/UDP it is easy to create UDP data which look like NFS requests
from other machines. However, TCP makes it much more difficult to add
falsified packets which impersonate another machines data.
The problem with NFS/TCP is that it is incompatible with NFS/UDP. Therefore
all servers running the TCP version will be invisible to clients running a
UDP version and vice versa.
NFS/TCP is available in PC/TCP and BWNFS.
E-11. What is PKTD.SYS? Where can I get it?
PKTD.SYS is a shim that allows PC-NFS to use packet drivers instead of its
native drivers. It is available from:
bcm.tmc.edu
src.doc.ic.ac.uk
ftpserver.massey.ac.nz
ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc-nfs/pktd/pktd.zip
The current version is 5.0.
E-12. How can I run Netware 3.xx at the same time as (PC)NFS using NDIS?
You can run the NDIS-over-ODI shim available from Novell that will let you
run netware at the same time as any other product running NDIS (ie. many
(PC)NFS products.
E-14. Is it possible to modify the read & write buffer sizes in (PC)NFS?
Different (PC)NFS systems have different sizes with default at 1024 Kbytes
for both. The standard maximum is 8 KB.
In PC-NFS, read buffer size is fixed (1024KB) but you can modify the write
size to any thing below this maximum. Currently anything less than 128 bytes
is cached into a 256 byte datagram. Anything more than this is passed as its
specific size.
PC/TCP, PathWay Client NFS & BWNFS allow modification of read & write buffer
sizes.
E-15. How can I install an Ethernet board not supported by (PC)NFS?
Contributed by Farid Rahmi:
If you're installing on an IBM PC or compatible, you can use NDIS drivers in
general for your Ethernet board.
Although I only upgraded to 5.0 after installing a beta version of 5.0
on my 3C509 PC, the procedure should still be the same :
1) Get the NDIS driver, the PROTOCOL.INI and the .NIF file from the LANMAN
directory off the floppy that shipped with the 3C509 and copy these three
files onto your harddisk (*NOT* in C:\LANMAN !!!, see below)
2) Select NDIS during installation.
3) This should wake up QUIKNDIS, which will transform PROTOCOL.INI for you
and put it in C:\LANMAN together with the NDIS driver.
Three remarks :
- If you have an EISA machine and an ISA 3C509, please RTFM before complaining
about lockups.
- I noticed that QUIKNDIS would scratch (make zero byte file) the NDIS driver
if placed into C:\LANMAN. As mentioned, this was in the beta release.
- Too bad SunSelect couldn't ship the drivers with 5.0. Seen most of the other
vendors ship these drivers and they are publicly available (ftp.3com.com)...
Farid (fr@sunbim.be)
E-16. In postscript files I sometimes get a ^D before the header from my programs. How do I get rid of it?
This happens mostly on PC systems sending output to postscript printers.
The ^D is the EOF character and sometimes causes a blank page to be output
by the printer before the print job. It can be disabled by the following:
In your WIN.INI file, add below [yourprintername, port] this line:
CTLD=0
If you wish to do this permenantly for all windows systems, you can
reprogram your printer with the following piece of Postscript code (Thanks
to Mark Fleming of Queen's Univ.). Send this as a file to your printer:
%!
%%Title: CTRL-D serial EOF (End-of-File) character fixed
%%Creator: R. Mark Fleming
%%+ Queen's University at Kingston
% Check if EOF is installed, if not install it
% assumes serverloop password is the default one
currentdict % Get current dictionary
(\004) cvn known
{ % Check if CTRL-D defined in this dictionary
(%% CTRL-D procedure already installed\n %%) print
} {
(%% CTRL-D procedure not installed!\n %%) print
% Define IBMpc (serial) EOF character to do nothing
serverdict begin
0 exitserver % Make permanent changes
(\004) cvn
{} def % To ignore ^D at the end of prologs.
} ifelse
%%EOF
E-17. *On the server, how do I get rid of TCP connections which say that they are CLOSING but never do (without a reboot)?
This can be fixed on SunOS 4.1.x systems with the following code:
#! /bin/sh
for i in `netstat -A | grep CLOSING | awk '{ print $1 }'`; do
echo "Closing $i";
adb -w /vmunix /dev/kmem <<EOF
$i+8/w 0
\$q
EOF
echo "$i will close in a couple of minutes";
done
Thanks go to Lars-Gunnar Olsson .
E-18. *How do I set up IP connections over a LocalTalk network? How do I connect a LocalTalk network to an Ethernet?
Unfortunately for Macintosh LocalTalk networks to run MacTCP or any TCP/IP
applications, you must have a unit which registers itself on the network as
an IPGATEWAY. Most such units are complete hardware gateways such as the
Cayman GatorBox or Shiva FastPath. These units also can route connections
to an Ethernet system as well.
[Also see A-15, A-16, & A-17]
E-19. Do I set Daylight savings time in Europe?
Europe is in fact on Daylight savings time, so set your system as this.
E-20. Is there a Winsock interface for LAN WorkPlace?
You need to get Novell's update from their NetWire bbs or FTP it from
the following site:
ftp://ftp.novell.com/pub/netwire/volume2/lanwp168.zip
You can also further information on Novell's Web server:
http://www.novell.com/SalesMkt/Buyers_Guide/ucp.html
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Section F: Programming
F-1. Is there a toolkit for (PC)NFS programming? Where can I get it?
Until recently, programming toolkits were developed independently by vendors
alongside their products. Due to the efforts of different persons and
organizations there is a formal definition of MS-Windows in the Windows
Sockets API. The current version is 1.1. This is only a standard and product
vendors are allowed to distribute their own programming toolkit. Most are
now developing or selling Windoes Sockets API compatible toolkits. Please
refer to the chart G-1 for products with Windows Sockets API.
Certain libaries for mounting drivers and user authentication with PC-NFS
5.0 are available on
ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc-nfs/dnet/DNET50.tar
F-2. What is Windows Sockets (winsock)? Where can I get it?
Windows Sockets is an API developed by a group of NFS vendors as a standard
for future network based communications in MS-Windows. The current version
of the API is 1.1. Further information for this is available on request.
Mail all questions and comments to "winsock@microdyne.com". To join the
mailing list, mail to "winsock-request@microdyne.com". Windows Sockets API
documentation and related documents are available by ftp to:
microdyne.com: /pub/winsock
sunsite.unc.edu/pub/micro/pc-stuff/ms-windows/winsock/winsock-1.1/winsock.ps
[Mirror site of the above address and much faster and up 24 hrs]
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/micro/pc-stuff/ms-windows/winsock/wsguide.ps
[This is a brief introduction to Winsock]
Peter Tatham (developer of the Trumpet newsreader) has developed a release
of winsock.dll which uses a packet driver as the network driver. Its
currently available from ftp.utas.edu.au:/pub/trumpet/winsock/winsock.zip.
There is a built in slip interface as well. This is still in alpha release
but is already being used all around and applauded much. Thanks Peter.
A C++ class library for Winsock is available from the following site:
ftp.demon.co.uk:/pub/ibmpc/winsock/packages/cwinsock.zip
As a side note:
The DLL labelled wsock32.dll for Windows 3.1 systems is a Win32s API
compatible library. This came with the Win32 SDK. This maps the 32-bit calls
onto 16-bit implementations of winsock.dll.
In Windows NT, the wsock32.dll is a full 32-bit implementation and does not
map onto 16-bit applications (for 16-bit, there is a separate winsock.dll)
F-3. What is the latest version of the NFS protocol?
The current official version of the NFS protocol is version 3. It has just
recently come out and is being tested at this years Connectathon.
A Postscript file is available from:
ftp.uu.net:/networking/ip/nfs/NFS3.spec.ps.Z
bcm.tmc.edu:/nfs/nfsv3.ps.Z
gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/standards/nfs/nfsv3.ps.Z
All comments and questions should be mailed to: nfs3@eng.sun.com
F-4. What is new in version 3 of the NFS protocol?
New features of version 3 are:
64bit support
exclusive creates,
asynchronous writes (I guess its official now Vernon)
improved attribute caching
the "ACCESS" command works on the server attributes as well
relaxed transfer size restrictions.
reduced required "GETATTR" operations.
More information to come later.
F-5. What is the current RPC version? Where can I get it?
The current version of RPC is 4.0. It is available at the ftp sites:
bcm.tmc.edu
src.doc.ic.ac.nz
ftpserver.massey.ac.nz
There is a version 4.0 which works with WATTCP which is available from
polyslo.calpoly.edu:/pub/mdurkin/rpc01a.zip
F-6. Where can I get the XDR/RPC definition for PCNFSD?
The .x file in the current source kit is available by FTP from:
bcm.tmc.edu
src.doc.ic.ac.uk
ftpserver.massey.ac.nz
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/micro/pc-stuff/ms-windows/winsock/gen/spry-rpc.zip
F-7. What RFC's describe the NFS protocol? Where can I get these RFC's?
RFC's (Requests for Comments) are standards approved by the IETF (Internet
Engineering Task Force) which maintain order on protocols and information
technology affecting on the Internet. There are about 1500 or more Internet
RFC's and many more drafts & proposals. They can be FTP'd from here.
There are three RFC's currently related to the NFS protocol:
RFC 1094 - NFS: Network File System Protocol Specification
RFC 1057 - RPC: Remote Procedire Call Specification Version 2
[supercedes RFC 1050]
RFC 1014 - XDR: External Data Representation Standard
These RFC's are available by ftp from:
ftp.internic.net:/rfc/
NIC.DDN.MIL
seagull.rtd.com: /pub/tcpip/papers
or by mail server from:
SERVICE@NIC.DDM.MIL
with subject "HELP"
or retrieve with "RFC index"
F-8. How can I tell if a program is NFS mounted?
Here's a message which discusses C code and methods of doing this:
In article mdash@usl.com (-candee-+Scheer M.D.)
writes:
>By happy (?) coincidence, both NFS (at least implementations based closely
>on the Sun reference port) and RFS assume that (1) local file systems have
>major device numbers where the high bit is off, and (2) the client is
>therefore free to play in the namespace of devs with the high bit on.
>Clients of both types synthesize devs with the high bit on. I'm aware of
>no environment that breaks assumption (1).
We're aware of several. We've been down that route and abandoned it
several years ago. While this is true of faithful SVRx (where I'm not
sure whether "x" includes any 4) ports with RFS, it breaks on many other
machines. Including SunOS, which uses a major number that is determined
at driver configuration time to denote NFS mounted files. If I recall
correctly, out-of-the-box, the magic major number is 20 on SunOS, but may
change on reconfig. Other machines where I'm fairly sure that the highbit
kludge doesn't work are Pyramid DCOSX, AIX3. It's been a while...
If I have to, I could confirm and expand the list by pawing thru
our SCCS history databases. Please don't make me - it's scary in there ;-)
Furthermore, st_dev will not change between different NFS mounts.
Thus st_dev:st_ino cannot be unique.
If you're on a SVR3'ish port, there is a macro in sys/types.h (or param.h)
analogous to major() and minor(). I seem to recall it is called "bmajor()".
If you're on a system that has bmajor(), you can use it - I remember it
masking off the upper bit of a major number. So you can say:
if (major(x.st_dev) != bmajor(x.st_dev))
file is remote
If it doesn't, you have to experiment and keep your fingers crossed.
I hate to say this, but there is no easy way to do this universally.
We ended up having to read the mount tables and match path prefixes.
Yuck. #defines up the wazzoo.
I suggest you start reading about getmntent() and analogues, and parse
the file system type fields. If performance isn't particularly critical,
it may be easier to popen /etc/mount and parse the output:
f = popen("/etc/mount", "r");
while(fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), f)) {
...
}
pclose(f);
If you use getmntent() (or /etc/mount kludge), and get a reasonable stat()
st_ino value for each file, you can use a "mount number":st_ino as a unique
key. But you cannot guarantee that a single file has only one
key (multiple NFS mounts of a directory heirarchy).
You may also have to resolve symlinks depending on how your application
works. This isn't a lot of fun either.
If you merely have to determine whether the occasional file is
remote or not, just "df " it, and parse the output.
Grotty, effective, reasonably portable, and *usually* reliable.
But we know systems that can't even get this right...
[On HPUX, use "bdf" not "df" ;-)]
--
Chris Lewis; clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca; Phone: Canada 613 832-0541
Psroff 3.0 info: psroff-request@ferret.ocunix.on.ca
Ferret list: ferret-request@ferret.ocunix.on.ca
F-9. What is APP2SOCK?
Spry [Z-1] has a programming library called APP2SOCK which
is an API set which maps onto different socket libraries notably Winsock 1.1,
Novell's WLIBSOCK (with Lan WorkPlace), and SunSelect's TKLIB (with PC-NFS). It
simplifies programming for different libraries and has only 19 calls. It is
freely available from Spry, Inc. :
ftp.spry.com:/vendors/spry/app2sock/{app2sock.dll,app2sock.lib,app2sock.h,app2doc.zip, app2txt.zip}
Spry, who brought you AIR Mail and AIR for Windows is trying to leverage
this as an open standard.
F-10. *Which DOS call will give a list of mounted file systems?
This came up a short while ago and Geoff replied:
Use the DOS GetRedirectionListEntry call (Int21H, Function 5FH, Subfunction
02H). PC-NFS supports this call, but not Subfunction 03H
(SetRedirectionListEntry).]
Refer to the DOS Technical Reference or any good DOS programmer's
reference book for details on how to invoke this function. Note that
you must call the function repeatedly (with BX=0, 1, 2, etc.) until AX
is returned as 12H (no more files), and you should ignore any entry for
which AX is not equal to 0.
Note also that if you simply want to determine whether a drive is local
or remote, you can simply use Int21H Function 44H Subfunction 09H,
which is much quicker. (There is at least one major app which uses a
sequence of GetRedirectionListEntry calls purely to check whether a
drive is local or remote....)
---
Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Select. (geoff.arnold@East.Sun.COM)
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Section G: Product Features Comparisons
This section has just been remodelled completely and has not yet
been cross-referenced with other sections.
G-1. Network Drivers and Hardware Protocols
* Wsock DLL - availability of a Winsock.DLL (if applicable)
* 100% DLL - is the stack implemented as 100% Windows DLL code.
* VxD - is the driver implemented as a Windows Virtual Device Driver
(if applicable)
* Drivers - availability of hardware drivers for Ethernet, Token-Ring,
FDDI, ISDN and X.25
* Link-layer Interface - these are the different network driver
software that runs with these packages. Note: MacTCP is
assumed for all Mac packages.
Key:
y = available
n = not available
a = not applicable
s = possible with the use of a "shim"
o = add-on or third party option
" " (blank) = unknown
Drivers Link-Layer Interface
----------------------- --------------------
Wsock 100% Pkt
Product DLL DLL VxD Enet T-R FDDI ISDN X.25 Drv NDIS ODI SLIP PPP
------- ----- ---- --- ---- --- ---- ---- ---- --- ---- --- ---- ---
AIR y y s y y y y
BW-TCP y y y n y y y y n
Chameleon y y y y y y s y y y y
CU/TCP n n y y n n n y n n y n
Distinct y y n y y y y y y y y
WorkPlace y y y s s y y y
NCSA Tel n n y y y n n y n
HP NS/APRA n n y y s y n n n
PathWay y n y y y y s y y y y
PathWayOS2 a a a y y s y y y y
PC-NFS y y y y y y y y
PC/TCP (4) y y y y y y y y y y y
Reflection y y y s y y
Super-TCP y y y y y y y y y y y o
IBM/DOS y n y y n n y n y n
IBM/OS2 (1) a a a y y y n y n y n
TCP/Open y y y y y y y n
TTCP y y y n n
WinApps (2) y y n y y n n n y n n y n
WinQVT (3) n n y y y n n n n
PathWayMac a a a y y y a a a y y
ICE/TCP n y y y
Piper/IP y y y y y y y y
TCPConnect y y y y y y y n
TUN y y y y
Vantage/IP a a a y y y y y
Lantastic n(5) n n y y s
WinNT y y y y y y n y n n n
Notes: (1) IBM TCP/IP for OS/2 can also use Frame Relay.
(2) The specifications are for Trumpet Winsock/TCPMAN
(3) requires a winsock.dll
(4) PC/TCP also supports the IBM ASI and VINES native drivers
It also supports the DEC Pathworks DLL, IPX over IP and IP
with VINES encapsulation
(5) coming soon in next version
G-2. Foreign Network Protocols and Operating System Co-operation
* W4W = Microsoft Windows for Workgroups
* ATalk = AppleTalk
* LAN Srv/Sp = IBMs PC LAN Server or LAN Support
Key:
y = available
n = not available
o = option
Novell Banyan MS-LAN LAN Artisoft
Product Netware VINES Manager W4W Srv/Sp Lantastic AppleTalk DECnet
------- ------- ------ ------- --- ------ --------- --------- ------
AIR y y y y n n
BW-TCP (10) y y n n
Chameleon y y y n n
CU/TCP n n n n n n y n
Distinct y y y y n n
WorkPlace y y n n
NCSA Tel n n n n n n y n
HP NS/APRA
PathWay y y y o o
PathWayOS2 y y y n y n n
PC-NFS y n y y y n n
PC/TCP (13) y y y y y y n y
Reflection y y y y
Super-TCP y y y y y n y
IBM/DOS y y y y(1) n
IBM/OS2 y n y y n
TCP/Open (11) y y y y y
TTCP
WinApps n n
WinQVT y(2) y(3) n n
PathWayMac y
ICE/TCP
Piper/IP y y y y y n n
TCPConnect(12)y y y y y n y
TUN
Vantage/IP y y y y n n
Lantastic y n n
WinNT y y y n n
Notes: (1) IBM TCP/IP for DOS' NFS and NetBIOS options will not
interoperate with Windows for Workgroups
(2) WinQVT will need the ODIPKT shim or use WinQVT/Winsock
version
(3) WinQVT will need the DISPKT shim or use WinQVT/Winsock
version
(10) BW-TCP & BW-NFS also support the 3Com 3+ and 3+Open as
well as DEC Pathworks.
(11) Lanera TCP/Open can coexist with InvisibleLAN as well.
(12) TCP Connect II for Windows also supports DCA 10NET
(13) PC/TCP also supports DCA 10Net, 3Com 3+Open and LANsmart.
G-3. IP protocols supported
These are the address, gateway and other protocols available with these
systems.
Product BOOTP RARP DNS NIS NetBIOS/IP RIP
------- ----- ---- --- --- ---------- ---
AIR o o y y
BW-TCP y y y y y
Chameleon y y n y
CU/TCP y y n n n
Distinct y y y n
WorkPlace y y y y
NCSA Tel y y n n n
HP NS/APRA n y n n n
PathWay y y y
PathWayOS2 y y y y
PC-NFS y n y y n
PC/TCP y y y
Reflection y y y
Super-TCP y y y y
IBM/DOS y n y y y
IBM/OS2 y y y y
TCP/Open y y y y
TTCP y y y y
WinApps y y n n n
WinQVT y n y n n n
PathWayMac y n y n n n
ICE/TCP
Piper/IP y y
TCPConnect y y n y
TUN
Vantage/IP y n y y
Lantastic y
WinNT n n y n y n
G-4. Terminal emulations and Remote Connectivity capabilities of products.
Notes: The VT emulations are the commonly available emulations on most
terminals. The tk4010 is the Tektronix graphics terminal emulation
mode. INT14 is an redirector which will use an external interface
such as Procomm to handle all the output.
VT Emul. IBM
Product 100 220 320 340 TN3270 tk4010 ANSI rlogin rsh rexec INT14
------- --- --- --- --- ------ ------ ---- ------ --- ----- -----
AIR y y y
BW-TCP y y y
Chameleon y y y(1) n
CU/TCP y n n y n y y y y n
Distinct y y
WorkPlace y y o
NCSA Tel y n n n n y y y y n
HP NS/APRA
PathWay y y y
PathWayOS2 y y y y y y
PC-NFS y y o n y y
PC/TCP y y y y y y y y y y
Reflection y o o o o y o
Super-TCP y y y y n y y y y
IBM/DOS y y y n y y y y
IBM/OS2 y y y n y y y y
TCP/Open y y y y y(2) n y y y y y
TTCP
WinApps y y n n n n y n n n n
WinQVT y y n n n y y n n
PathWayMac y y y
ICE/TCP y y
Piper/IP y y y y y y n
TCPConnect y y y n y n n y y y
TUN y y y y y y y y
Vantage/IP y y y y y y n
Lantastic y y y y n y n y
WinNT y n n n n n n n n
Notes: (1) Chameleon 4.0 also has an IBM 5250 emulation application.
(2) Lanera TCP/Open can also do IBM 3101 (10/20)
G-5. Mail, WhoIs, Finger, News, Talk, NTalk
These are the different clients available.
Key:
d = DOS application
w = MS-Windows 3.1 application
m = Macintosh System 7.x application
l = Macintosh System 6.x application
o = add-on product
s = OS/2 2.1 application
y = available but system type unknown or not applicable
n = not available
" " (blank) = unknown
E-mail
------------------------
Product SMTP POP2 POP3 IMAP MIME whois finger news talk ntalk other
------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----- ------ ---- ---- ----- -----
AIR w w o (1)
BW-TCP d w w w w n w w (2)
Chameleon w w w n y w w w n n (3)
CU/TCP n n n n n n d n
Distinct
WorkPlace y n n n
NCSA Tel n n n n n n d n n n
HP NS/APRA
PathWay n n n n n n n n n n
PathWayOS2 n n n n n n n n n n
PC-NFS d w d w d w n n d w n n n n
PC/TCP d d d d
Reflection
Super-TCP w w w n y w w w w
IBM/DOS d w d w y y n
IBM/OS2 s y s s s s s
TCP/Open w n w n
TTCP
WinApps n n n n n n n n y y (4)
WinQVT w w w n n n n w n n
PathWayMac n n n n n n n n n n
ICE/TCP
Piper/IP w n w w y w w w n n
TCPConnect w w w y w w w w w
TUN d w
Vantage/IP s n s s y s s s n n
Lantastic n n n n n n y n n n
WinNT n n n n
Notes: (1) AIR Gopher
(2) Fortune cookie application
(3) Gopher client, IBM PROFS email client available
(4) Archie client
G-6. NFS, FTP, TFTP, Network Backup and Network Printing
Product NFS/UDP NFS/TCP FTP TFTP Backup lpr lpq lprm rcp
------- ------- ------- --- ---- ------ --- --- ---- ---
AIR y y y y y y y
BW-TCP y y y y y y y y y
Chameleon y y y o o o y
CU/TCP n y n n n n n
Distinct y y y
WorkPlace y y y y y y y
NCSA Tel n y n n n n n
HP NS/APRA n
PathWay y y y y
PathWayOS2 y y y y y
PC-NFS y y y y y y
PC/TCP y y y y y y y y y
Reflection y y
Super-TCP y y y y y y
IBM/DOS y y y y
IBM/OS2 y y y y
TCP/Open y y y y y y y y
TTCP
WinApps n n y n n n n n n
WinQVT n n y n y n n n
PathWayMac y n y
ICE/TCP n y
Piper/IP y y y y y y
TCPConnect y y y y y y
TUN y y
Vantage/IP y y y y y y y
Lantastic y n y y y y y
WinNT y
G-7. Servers
These are the various servers available.
Key:
y = available
n = not available
o = add-on option
t = third party product
Product NFS SMTP telnet ftp tftp route rcp rexec lpd finger talk DNS
------- --- ---- ------ --- ---- ----- --- ----- --- ------ ---- ---
AIR n o n y n n y n n n n
BW-TCP y y y y y y y
Chameleon y y
CU/TCP n n n y y n n n
Distinct n n n y n y n n n n n y
WorkPlace n n y y y
NCSA Tel y
HP NS/APRA
PathWay n n y n n n n
PathWayOS2 y
PC-NFS n n n y n n n n y n n n
PC/TCP y y
Reflection n n n y
Super-TCP(1)y y n y y n n n o n y n
IBM/DOS n n n y y y o
IBM/OS2 n n n y n n n n y n n n
TCP/Open n n n y y n
TTCP
WinApps n n n n n n n n n n n n
WinQVT n n n y n n y n n n n n
PathWayMac n n n y n n n n n n n n
ICE/TCP y
Piper/IP y y y y y y y y y y n
TCPConnect y
TUN y
Vantage/IP y y y y y y y y y y n
Lantastic n n n y n y
WinNT t n t y
Notes: (1) Super-TCP can serve modems to network.
G-8. Network Utilities (nslookup, ping, traceroute, netstat, route, snmp)
These are the networking utilities available
Product nslookup ping traceroute netstat route ifconfig SNMP
------- -------- ---- ---------- ------- ----- -------- ----
AIR
BW-TCP y y y y n y n
Chameleon
CU/TCP
Distinct y y n n
WorkPlace
NCSA Tel
HP NS/APRA
PathWay
PathWayOS2
PC-NFS n y n y n n
PC/TCP y y
Reflection
Super-TCP y n
IBM/DOS y y y y
IBM/OS2 y y y y
TCP/Open
TTCP
WinApps n y y y n y n
WinQVT n n n n n n n
PathWayMac
ICE/TCP
Piper/IP y y y y y y y
TCPConnect
TUN
Vantage/IP y y y y y y y
Lantastic y y
WinNT t
G-9. Features of X servers.
Key:
Fonts: s - SNF, a - adobe, t - TrueType, b - BDF, p - PCF, d - SPD
Video: e - EGA, v - VGA, s - SVGA, m - mono, 8 - 8514, t - TIGA, x - XGA
c - CGA, h - Hercules, o - others (MCGA, DIGA, Japanese, etc)
Window Manager: m - Motif, o - OpenLook, d - DECWindows, w - MS-Windows,
p - Presentation Manager
X11 Window Dev.
Product Release Fonts XDMCP ICCCM Video Manager XRemote Kit Winsock
------- ------- ----- ----- ----- ------- ------- ------- --- -------
eXceed 5 y y xevs8t m y y y
eXcursion 5 s y w
eXodus 5 y y vsx mod y n
X-Lite 4 vs mod n n n
X-WIN 5 y vhs mod n n y
Multiview 4 b y w n n n
Xware 5 stb y y cevs8txo mow y y y
Xview 4 y y mcevs8tx mo y y
XLink 5 sdp vso8 y n
DECWin 4 sa n y ev8o n n n
Xsight 4 evh w n y
Xappeal 5 y vs od n n n
Xoftware 5 s y y evs8 mow n y y
Xvision 5 satb y y od y y y
IBM X-OS/2 5 bpd y y evs8xo p n y n
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Section H: Information Sources
H-1. CHEST - Council for Higher Education Software Transfers
Chest is run in the United Kingdom for all higher educational bodies for the
provision of educational software pricing. The run an information service
called NISS [telnet niss.ac.uk] which is full of useful information on
software deals. Their current director is Mike Johnson. Each educational
site has a local representative. Users wanting to deal should contact their
local representative. The address for the CHEST & NISS Centre is given below:
CHEST & NISS Centre,
University of Bath,
Bath BA2 7AY,
UK
+44 (0) 225 826042
There is a discussion list associated with the CHEST product deal at
mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk and Chest-Xwindows@mailbase.ac.uk. They have
associated archives full of information. To join the list you send a message
to mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk with the message body containing
"subscribe chest-pcnfs (real name)"
H-2. X/Open.
The X/Open Company is an international group of vendors which acts as a
standards body for API system compatibility of different platforms. They
create the X/Open Portability Guide (XPG) which includes a description for
portability of a Unix system. The title of UNIX now formally belongs to the
X/Open Company. The following are the addresses, phone and FAX numbers for
the X/Open Company:
X/Open Company Ltd. X/Open Company Ltd.
Apex Plaza, Forbury Rd., Karufuru-Kanda Bldg., 9F
Reading, Berkshire RG1 1AX 1-2-1 Kanda Suda-Cho
United KIngdom Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo 101, Japan
Phone: +44 734 508311 Phone: +81 3 251 8321
FAX: +44 734 500110 FAX: +81 3 251 8376
X/Open Company Ltd. X/Open Company Ltd.
1750 Montgomery Street, 1055 Washington Blvd., 6th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111 Stamford, CT 06901
USA USA
Phone: +1 (415)773-5383 Phone: +1 (203)975-7778
FAX: +1 (415)421-4278 FAX: +1 (203)975-7744
H-3. Books.
Bloomer, John
"Power Programming with RPC"
O'Reilly & Assoc, 1992
ISBN 0-937175-77-3
US$29.95
This covers the details of distributed application developement using RPCs.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Comer, Douglas E.
"Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume I: Principles, Protocols and
Architecture"
Second edition, Prentice Hall, 1991.
ISBN 0-13-468505-9
One of the best referrences on TCP/IP with good examples
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Comer, Douglas E., Stevens, David L.,
"Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume II: Design, Implementation and
Internals"
Prentice Hall, 1991.
ISBN 0-13-472242-6
Followup to Comer's very successful Vol 1. Descriptions on specific
applications and services
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Comer, Douglas E., Stevens, David L.,
"Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume III: Client-Server Programming
and Applications" (BSD Socket Version)
Prentice Hall, 1993
ISBN 0-13-474222-2
Book 3 has a good description on network programming via RPC & TCP/IP
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Corbin, John,
"The Art of Distributed Programming-Programming Techniques for Remote
Procedure Calls"
Springer-Verlag, New York, New York. 1991.
Basic description of RPC and XDR and how to program distributed applications
using them.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Engst, Adam
"The Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh"
Hayden Books, Indianapolis, 1993
ISBN 1-56830-064-6
US$29.95
Canada $37.95
Adam has outdone himself in this whimsical starter book for Macintosh users
wanting to know about the Internet and how to connect to it. A must read
book if you're a novice.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Hunt, Craig
"TCP/IP Network Administration"
O'Reilly & Assoc., 1992
ISBN 0-13-015389-3
Another in O'Reilly's System administration series. Good practical
referrence for sysadmins.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Kehoe, Brian
"Zen and the Art of the Internet"
Prentice-Hall, 1992
ISBN 0-13-010778-6
A comprehensive Internet book for beginners. It can be ftp'd from
world.std.com:/obi/Internet/zen-1.0 as well.
It is available in Microsoft Rich Text Format (as in the Help format) from:
ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc-nfs/doc/zen10.hlp
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Krol, Ed
"The Whole Internet: User's Guide & Catalog"
O'Reilly & Assoc, 1992
ISBN 1-56592-025-2
A good introduction to the Internet covering the basics such as email and
news and expands into new developments as well.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
LaQuery, Tracy, Ryer, Jeanne C.
"The Internet Companion: A Beginner's Guide to Global Networking"
Addison-Wesley, 1993
ISBN 0-201-62224-6
Another introductory book for novices on Internet services. The book informs
users on how to find information.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Malamud, Carl
"Analyzing Sun Networks."
Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991.
ISBN ??
Mr. Malamud is a very well known author on networking standards and this
book gives a good description of Sun's ONC.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Miller, Mark A.
"Troubleshooting TCP/IP"
ISBN ??
Teaches how to analyze TCP/IP problems and discusses platforms and case
studies.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Rose, Marshall T.
"The Simple Book: An Introduction to Management of TCP/IP-based Internets"
Prentice Hall
ISBN ??
The first of Mr Roses books on Network management. A new edition is coming
out soon, I think.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Rose, Marshall T.
"The Internet Message: Closing the Book on Electronic Mail"
Prentice Hall
ISBN 0-13-092041-7
A good book on Internet mail systems by a very enjoyable author. Great for
developers not users.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Santifaller, Michael
"TCP/IP and NFS."
Addison Wesley, 1991.
ISBN ??
No info. opinions welcome.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Stern, Hal
"Managing NFS and NIS."
O'Reilly & Associates, 1991.
ISBN 0-937175-75-7
Very handy troubleshooting book on NFS & NIS problems
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Stevens, W. Richard,
"Unix Network Programming"
Prentice Hall, 1990.
ISBN 0-13-949876-1
A good book on the details of Unix network systems with good exercises. Mr
Stevens is a very well known author on Unix systems. The source code and
errata list are available from ftp.uu.net:/published/books/
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Stephen Roge
"Unix System V Network Programming"
Addison-Wesley, 1993
[Brand new book (July 93), I have not read it yet. Any opinions welcome]
H-4. Related papers (published)
Glover, Fred,
"TNFS Protocol Specification,"
Trusted System Interest Group, INTERNET-DRAFT, May 24, 1992.
Proposed draft standard for security extensions to NFS.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Israel, Robert K., Sandra Jett, James Pownell, George M. Ericson,
"Eliminating Data Copies in UNIX-based NFS Servers,"
Uniforum Conference Proceedings, San Francisco, CA, February 27 - March 2,1989.
Describes two methods for reducing data copies in NFS server code.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Jacobson, V.,
"Congestion Control and Avoidance,"
Proc. ACM SIGCOMM `88, Stanford, CA, August 1988.
The paper describing improvements to TCP to allow use over Wide Area
Networks and through gateways connecting networks of varying capacity. This
work was a starting point for the NFS Dynamic Retransmission work.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Juszczak, Chet,
"Improving the Performance and Correctness of an NFS Server,"
USENIX Conference Proceedings, USENIX Association, Berkeley, CA, June 1990,
pages 53-63.
Describes reply cache implementation which avoids work in the server by
handling duplicate requests. More important, though listed as a side-effect,
the reply cache aids in the avoidance of destructive non-idempotent
operation re-application-improving correctness.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Kazar, Michael Leon,
"Synchronization and Caching Issues in the Andrew File System,"
USENIX Conference Proceedings, USENIX Association, Berkeley, CA, Dallas
Winter 1988, pages 27-36.
A description of the cache consistency scheme in AFS. Contrasted with other
distributed file systems.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Macklem, Rick,
"Lessons Learned Tuning the 4.3BSD Reno Implementation of the NFS Protocol,"
Winter USENIX Conference Proceedings, USENIX Association, Berkeley, CA,
January 1991.
Describes performance work in tuning the 4.3BSD Reno NFS implementation.
Describes performance improvement (reduced CPU loading) through elimination
of data copies.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Mogul, Jeffrey C.,
"A Recovery Protocol for Spritely NFS,"
USENIX File System Workshop Proceedings, Ann Arbor, MI, USENIX Association,
Berkeley, CA, May 1992.
Second paper on Spritely NFS proposes a lease-based scheme for recovering
state of consistency protocol.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Nowicki, Bill,
"Transport Issues in the Network File System,"
ACM SIGCOMM newsletter Computer Communication Review, April 1989.
A brief description of the basis for the dynamic retransmission work.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Pawlowski, Brian, Ron Hixon, Mark Stein, Joseph Tumminaro,
"Network Computing in the UNIX and IBM Mainframe Environment,"
Uniforum `89 Conf. Proc., (1989)
Description of an NFS server implementation for IBM's MVS operating system.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
[RFC 1014] Sun Microsystems, Inc.,
"External Data Representation Specification,"
RFC-1014, DDN Network Information Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA.
Proposed standard for canonical format for data exchange, used with RPC.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
[RFC 1057] Sun Microsystems, Inc.,
"Remote Procedure Call Specification,"
RFC-1057, DDN Network Information Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA.
Remote procedure protocol specification.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
[RFC 1094] Sun Microsystems, Inc.,
"Network Filesystem Specification,"
RFC-1094, DDN Network Information Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA.
NFS version 2 protocol specification.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Sandberg, R., D. Goldberg, S. Kleiman, D. Walsh, B. Lyon,
"Design and Implementation of the Sun Network Filesystem,"
USENIX Conference Proceedings, USENIX Association, Berkeley, CA, Summer 1985.
The basic paper describing the SunOS implementation of the NFS version 2
protocol, and discusses the goals, protocol specification and trade-offs.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Srinivasan, V., Mogul, Jeffrey C.
"Spritely NFS: Implementation and Performance of Cache Consistency Protocols",
WRL Research Report 89/5, Digital Equipment Corporation Western Research
Laboratory, 100 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto, CA, 94301, May 1989.
This paper analyzes the effect of applying a Sprite-like consistency
protocol applied to standard NFS. The issues of recovery in a stateful
environment are covered in [Mogul].
Electronically available: gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/DEC/WRL/WRL-TR-89.5.ps.Z
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Mogul, Jeffrey C.
"A Recovery Protocol for Spritely NFS",
WRL Technical Note 27, Digital Equipment Corporation Western Research
Laboratory, 100 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto, CA, 94301, April 1993.
No abstract.
Electronically available: gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/DEC/WRL/WRL-TN-27.ps.Z
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
X/Open Company, Ltd.,
"X/Open CAE Specification: Protocols for X/Open Internetworking: XNFS",
X/Open Company, Ltd., Apex Plaza, Forbury Road, Reading Berkshire, RG1 1AX,
United Kingdom, 1991.
This is an indispensable reference for NFS version 2 protocol and
accompanying protocols, including the Lock Manager and the Portmapper.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
X/Open Company, Ltd.,
"X/Open CAE Specification: Protocols for X/Open Internetworking: (PC)NFS
Developer's Specification",
X/Open Company, Ltd., Apex Plaza, Forbury Road,
Reading Berkshire, RG1 1AX, United Kingdom, 1991.
This is an indispensable reference for the PC implementation of the NFS
version 2 protocol.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Hall M., Towfiq M., Arnold G., Treadwell D., Sanders H.
"Windows Sockets: An Open Interface for Network Programming under Microsoft
Windows, version 1.1"
1992.
--
This is the specification of the Windows Sockets API which is the current
standard for Windows PC network socket calls. A must read for current
developers.
H-5. FTP Sites
The official FTP sites for comp.protocols.nfs are:
bcm.tmc.edu: /nfs
ftpserver.massey.ac.nz
src.doc.ic.ac.uk
FAQ draft current location:
seagull.rtd.com:/pub/tcpip/FAQ.pcnfs.current.Z [Unix compress]
seagull.rtd.com:/pub/tcpip/FAQ.pcnfs.current.gz [GnuZip compress]
seagull.rtd.com:/pub/tcpip/pcnfsfaq.zip [ZIP compress]
seagull.rtd.com:/pub/tcpip/pcnfsfaq.txt [Plain ASCII text]
Other FTP sites:
calvin.sfasu.edu: /pub/dos/network/ftp-pctcp
dorm.rutgers.edu: /pub/msdos/
ftp.bws.com: /pub/bw
ftp.cica.indiana.edu
ftp.cnidr.org: /pub/NIDR.tools/wais/pc/windows
ftp.com
ftp.demon.co.uk: /pub/ibmpc/winsock
ftp.netmanage.com
ftp.novell.com
ftp.york.ac.uk: /pub
grape.ecs.clarkson.edu
lister.cc.ic.ac.uk
microdyne.com: /pub/winsock
[RFCs] nic.ddn.mil
seagull.rtd.com: /pub/tcpip
sgi.sgi.com
[ODI] sjf-lwp.novell.com
sorokin.anu.edu.au: /pub/nfs5-addons
sunsite.unc.edu: /pub/micro/pc-stuff/ms-windows/winsock
vax.ftp.com
H-6. Related FAQs, USENET lists, email lists etc.
You can find FAQs, FAQlets, and other lists on USENET related to the topic
of PC's and TCP/IP Networks in general at the following sources:
Comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc FAQlet by Bernard Abouba.
This covers details of running the IP protocols and intermixing different
packages on IBM PC & compatible systems. It is posted bi-weekly on the
corresponding USENET group. You can also FTP a copy from the following
site:
netcom1.netcom.com: /pub/mailcom/IBMTCP/ibmtcp.zip
or the Web pgae:
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/ibmpc-tcp-ip/faq.html
"Features of TCP/IP Packages for DOS and Windows" (Version 0.5 5/13/93)
by C.J.Sacksteder.
This is another comparison of TCP/IP packages for DOS and MS-Windows PC
systems. It is posted to comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc.
Packet Drivers FAQ by Russell Nelson.
This covers questions concerning the installation, maintainence and
compatibility of the Packet Drivers suite available as freeware on the
Internet. It is posted to comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc.
Windows Sockets API FAQ.
This covers questions on the Windows Sockets API standard. There is also
a USENET newsgroup for this: alt.winsock. The FAQ is available on the
newsgroup and also from the official site for the standard:
microdyne.com: /pub/winsock/FAQ/FAQ
Windows Sockets API mailing list
This mailing list can be joined by email request to:
winsock-request@microdyne.com
Sun RPC on Windows
This mailing list discusses Sun's Open Network Computing RPC's running on
Windows. You can subscribe by mailing to:
rpc4win-request@wco.ftp.com
NFS version 3 mailing list
The mailing list for the new NFS specification can be joined my emailing:
nfs3@eng.sun.com
The UK CHEST program mailing list
This mailing list contains information on (PC)NFS distributed by CHEST
[H-1]. Email to mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk with a header "subscribe chest-pcnfs (real name here)"
H-7. Glossary
These are brief descriptions of the terms used in PC & TCP/IP networking.
ANSI American National Standards Institute. A standards making body of
the US Federal system.
API Application Programming Interface. A list of procedures or
functions which describe an interface to some program or servicce
AppleTalk A proprietory network protocol developed by Apple Computers, Inc.
and available on Macintosh systems.
ARA Appletalk Remote Access. This is a proprietory protocol and
application that lets a Macintosh communicate with another Macintosh
or a remote network over a telephone line.
ARP Address Resolution Protocol. Nodes use these to determine the
hardware address of a given IP address if directly available.
Described in RFC 826.
BOOTP Bootstrap Protocol. This allows a client to determine its IP address
given its hardware address (to some BOOTP server). Described in
RFC 1084.
client A program which is used to communicate with another which provides
special services (eg. an NFS client communicates with an NFS server
to mount remote file systems locallly.)
DDP Datagram Delivery Protocol. This is one of the Appletalk protocols
and has similar function to IP.
DECNET A proprietory networking system developed by Digital Equipment Corp.
DLL Dynamically Linked Library. This is a set of shared functions and
procedures used by applications that can be loaded or unloaded at
any time by the applications. Many TCP/IP packages now come as DLLs.
DNS Domain Naming System/Server. This is a system of Internet hosts
which provide IP name to IP address resolution. Described in RFCs
1034 and 1035.
Email Electronic Mail. This is a method of communication electronically
using different methods of delivery. On the Internet the email
protocol most commonly used (and the standard) is SMTP.
Ethernet This is a physical and data link layer system connecting hosts in
a bus-topology network. It is described by IEEE 802.3 and the DIX
(Digital, Intel, Xerox) Ethernet II specifications. Both are
compatible on the same physical wire but differ slightly in utility.
FDDI Fibre Distribution Data Interface. This is a physical layer and data
link layer standard for a fibre optic ring-topology network as
approved by ANSI.
finger A remote check utility to see users and hosts.
FTP File Transfer Protocol. This is an application to transfer files
from one IP host to another. The client initiates a connection to
the server and sends commands to it to indicate which files and the
method of transfer.
gopher An client-server networked information service.
Host A general referrence to a computer system on a network.
hostname On IP networks, this refers to the English (sort of) name given to
the machine. Can be the same as IP name.
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol. This is a diagnostic protocol for
IP data delivery used by various programs such as Ping. Described by
RFC 792.
Internet The Internet is a very large system of networks spanning the globe.
The word "internet" (with small 'i') is also used to describe a WAN.
IP Internet Protocol. The transport layer which describes a packet
format for data to pass on a TCP/IP network and on the Internet.
Described in RFC 791.
IP name The Englishlike name given to an IP host.
IP address The "dotted-decimal" format identifier for each IP host. Eg.
192.0.0.2
IPX Internet Packet Exchange. Novell's Netware packet delivery system
similar in concept to IP.
KIP Kinetics IP. Appletalk tunneled through IP protocols. See A-16
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network. A hardware description for
direct links between two areas by way of special telephony.
LAN Manager A proprietory networking system developed by Microsoft.
LocalTalk Apple Computer's proprietory cabling scheme for connecting Macintosh
systems together. The Appletalk software protocols run over LocalTalk.
login To connect to a host.
logout To disconnect from a host.
LPD Line Printer Daemon. This is a print server for requests by LPR from
other hosts on the network. Described in RFC 1179.
LPR Line Printer. This was originally a Unix system command which has
expanded to include network printing as well on hosts with the LPD
MHS Mail Handling System. A email distribution protocol similar to SMTP.
MIME Mail Interface with Multimedia Extensions. This is a newer email
protocol which actually resides above the delivery protocol and
describes the content format of the email message. It provides
extensions for multimedia email. Described by RFC 1341, 1344, 1426,
1428, 1437.
Netware A protprietory networking system developed by Novell, Inc.
NDIS Network Driver Interface Specification. This is an data-link layer
interface for different systems using a network device. Described by
the NDIS papers by Microsoft and 3Com.
NFS Network File System. Please see A-1.
NIC 1. Network Interface Card. The hardware card or interface
that connects your machine to the network wiring.
2. Network Information Center of the Internet: internic.net
NIS Network Information System. This is Sun Microsystems version of
coordination of network information like hostnames and account
information. Partially similar to DNS.
NNTP Network News Transfer Protocol. This is the distribution method
protocol for USENET newsservice between servers and newsreaders
(clients). Described in RFC 977 & 1036.
ODI Open Data-Link Interface. Novell's data-link layer interface similar
to NDIS for systems using the network interface.
OSI Open Systems Interconnect. An alternative to the IP suite of
protocols developed by the International Standards Organization
(ISO). ISO has its own set of protocols available in the Blue Book.
Packet Drivers These are series of software for the data-link layer
interface, similar to NDIS and ODI but on a lower level for
programmability. Described by the Packet Driver Specification by
John Romkey of ftp Software, Inc. (see B-3)
PCNFSD The daemon utility for authorization of (PC)NFS systems. Version 2 is
the current common usage version.
Ping This is a utility for checking reachability between Internet hosts.
POP Post Office Protocol. This is a protocol for server-based e-mail
packages. Described by POP2 & POP3 descriptions: RFC 918, 937, 1081,
1082, 1225
PPP Point-to-point Protocol. A data link layer for connecting two hosts
directly by serial, modem, or wide-area links. It can carry IP and
other protocols. Described (for IP) by RFC 1331, 1332, 1333.
RARP Reverse Address Resolution Protocol. This is used by hosts to map a
given hardware address to an IP address. Described by RFC 826
RCP Remote Copy. This utility allows a user to copy files from one host
to another on a TCP/IP network.
REXEC Remote Execute. This utility allows a user to execute commands on a
remote host from a local host over a TCP/IP network.
RFC Request For Comments. The set of standards and protocol definitions
now approved by the Internet Engineering Task Force which describes
the Internet and all its protocols. They are all located here.
.rhosts This is a file which contains permissions for different accounts
and hosts to access that user account. Used by RCP, REXEC, RLOGIN
and RSH.
RLOGIN Remote Login. This is a application program to connect to remote IP
hosts similar to the Telnet program. Described by RFC 1258, 1282.
RSH Remote Shell. This allows a user to open a shell on a remote system
over a TCP/IP network.
SLIP Serial-Line Internet Protocol. This is a data-link layer describing
Internet connectivity via a serial line or modem between two hosts.
It is similar to PPP. Described in RFC 1055.
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. The common protocol used in TCP/IP
networks and the Internet for email delivery. Described by RFC 821.
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol. The first version of the network
management protocol which allows monitoring hosts from remote.
Described by RFC 1067, 1098, 1157.
SNMPv2 SNMP Version 2. This is the latest version of the SNMP protocol
which is compatible with the original version but includes many
extensions such as security. Described by RFC 1444, 1446, 1447,
1448, 1450.
tar Tape Archive. A Unix backup utility both local and remote.
TCP Transmission Control Protocol. This is a connection oriented protocol
which provides reliable communication between two IP hosts.
Described by RFC 793.
Telnet This is a remote connectivity application between IP hosts.
Described by RFC 764, 854.
Token-Ring This is a physical and data-link layer description for a
ring-based topology network.
topology A somewhat visual description of a network wire system.
TSR Terminate and Stay Ready. This is a DOS based program which stays in
memory after it is started and allows the user to continue using
other DOS programs.
tunneling A protocol can sometimes be sent through a network running a
different network protocol to another part of the network or to an
external network which understands the original protocol. For
example, IP can tunnel through IPX as well as Appletalk.
UDP User Datagram Protocol. This is a connectionless communication
protocol providing non-reliable data delivery between IP hosts.
Described by RFC 768.
USENET The news system on the Internet providing information by users of
the network.
UUCP Unix to Unix Copy Program. This is a protocol for network
connectivity by non-interactive distribution of files.
VTxxx A series of terminal types developed by Digital Equipment Corp.
which has become a de facto standard.
VxD Virtual Device Driver. This is a driver specification which allows
DOS applications to access network services in MS-Windows.
WAIS Wide Area Information Services. Another networked information
service. This one uses the Z39.50 document format for storage.
WINSOCK Windows Sockets API. Please see (F-2).
WWW World Wide Web. Yet another networked information service; this one
uses the HyperText Markup Language (HTML) for its formatting and
interfaces for various systems are available
X.25 A data-link layer protocol developed by CCITT.
Xserver A program which allows the user to display X windows applications.
Xwindows A networked windowing system commonly found on many workstations
and Unix systems
H-8. PD/Shareware Winsock Software List.
This is a list of Winsock applications that are available via FTP.
Currently, just about most of these Winsock programs are available from the
following ftp sites:
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/micro/pc-stuff/ms-windows/winsock/apps/
ftp.cica.indiana.edu:/pub/pc/win3/winsock/
NOTE: exact locations are available on the World Wide Web version of this
FAQ.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Application Author Description
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
WinVN VN newsreader
FingerD Finger server
GophBook Gopher Client
HGopher Hamilton Gopher Client
PC-Eudora Mailer
SMTP11 SMTP Client
QWS3270 TN 3270 client
SerWeb World Wide Web Server
WAISMan WAIS client
WnWAIS WAIS client
WinFSP FSP Client
WFTPD FTP server
WinLPR Windows Print Spool to LPR Redirector
WinQVT/Net QPC Software Meta-App: Telnet, FTP, Mail, News
WLPRS Windows Print Spool to LPR Redirector
WS_FTP FTP client
WS_Ping Ping client
WSFinger Finger client
WS-G Gopher Clien
WS-LPD LPD Server
WSMPTD Ian Blenke SMTP server
WinTrumpet Peter Tattam Newsreader
EWais WAIS client
WinMosaic NCSA WWW client
WinTel NCSA Meta-App: Telnet, FTP, etc.
WinFTP FTP client
WinSNMP SNMP Agent
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Section W: E-mail Software
W-1. CliqAccessories : Quadratron Systems
Company : Quadratron Systems
Contact : -
Phone : (805) 494-1158 (California)
FAX : (805) 494-1721
Email : kathyb@quad.com
Postal mail : Quadratron Systems
141 Triunfo Canyon Rd.
Westlake Village,
CA 91361
Product : CliqAccessories
Current Version:
Pricing : $645
Support :
Systems : DOS
TCP/IP support: ?
Mail Protocol : SMTP, MHS
Mail Filtering: available
Features : calender/schedule application, phone book, notepad, calculator
W-2. Higgins Group Productivity Software: Enable Software
Company : Enable Software
Contact : -
Phone : (800) 888-0684 (US)
(518) 877-8600 (New York)
FAX : (518) 877-5225
Email : ?
Postal mail : Enable Software
313 Ushers Rd
Northway Lake,
NY 12019
Product : Higgins Group Productivity Software
Current Version: 2.5
Pricing : $695 (8 users)
Support : ?
Systems : DOS
TCP/IP support: ?
Mail Protocol : Proprietory, SMTP, MHS, X.400/XAPI
Mail Filtering: available
Features : Calender/schedule software
Forms processing
W-3. Linkage: Concentric Technologies
Company : Concentric Technologies
Contact : -
Phone : (800) 800-3649 (US)
(703) 264-8900 (Virginia)
FAX : (703) 648-0032
Email : ?
Postal mail : Concentric Technologies
12007 Sunrise Valley Dr.
Ste 440
Reston, VA 22091
Product : Linkage
Current Version: 4.0
Pricing : $69.50
Support : ?
Systems : DOS, Windows/NT
TCP/IP support: ?
Mail Protocol : SMTP, MHS, X.400/XAPI, UUCP
Mail Filtering: available
Features : incoming fax to mailbox ability
voice mail notification.
W-4. OpenMail : Hewlett-Packard, Inc.
Company : Hewlett-Packard, Inc.
Contact : -
Phone : (800) 752-0900 (US)
FAX : -
Email : -
Postal mail : HP
Cooperative Computing Systems Division
19490 Homestead Rd.
Cupertino,
CA 95136
Product : OpenMail
Current Version: ?
Pricing : $14 - $50
Support : ?
Systems : DOS, Macintosh
TCP/IP support: ?
Mail Protocol : SMTP, X.400/XAPI, MAPI, VIM
Mail Filtering: available
Features : phone book, bulletin board
W-5. PathWay Messenger : The Wollongong Group
Company : The Wollongong Group
Contact : Marty Udisches
(martyu@twg.com)
Phone : (415) 962-7202
(800) 962-8649 (California) [toll-free]
(800) 872-8649 (US) [toll-free]
+1 519 747-9900 (Canada)
+1 32-2718-0311 (Europe)
FAX : (415) 962-0826 (US)
Email : sales@twg.com
Postal mail : The Wollongong Group, Inc.
1129 San Antonio Road
Palo Alto, CA 94303
USA
Product : PathWay Messenger
Current Version: 1.0
Pricing : $195
Support : call
Systems : 80x86 DOS 3.3 +
TCP/IP support: Wollongong PathWay Access
Mail Protocol : SMTP, POP2, POP3, IMAP
Mail Filtering: available
Features : NETNEWS bulletin board
W-6. Eudora (PC & Mac): Qualcomm Software, Inc.
Company : Qualcomm Software, Inc.
Contact : Jeff Beckley
Phone : (800) 2-EUDORA
FAX : -
Email : eudora-sales@qualcomm.com
pc-eudora-info@qualcomm.com
eudora-info@qualcomm.com
Postal mail :
Product : PC-Eudora (for Windows 3.1)
Eudora (for Macintosh)
Current Version: 1.4.15
Pricing : shareware. Available via FTP from:
[PC version] ftp.qualcomm.com:/pceudora/windows/eudora14.exe (275 KB)
Please read the Commercial disclaimer.
[Mac Sys6.x] ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/mac/eudora/1.3/Eudora1.3.1.sea.hqx
(275 KB)
(1.3.1 Manual) ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/mac/eudora/1.3/Eudora1.3.1Man.sea.hqx
(781 KB)
[Mac Sys7.x] ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/mac/eudora/1.4.1/Eudora1.4.1.sea.hqx
(329 KB)
(1.4.1 Manual)ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/mac/eudora/1.4.1/Eudora1.4Manual.sea.hqx
(492 KB)
The commercial version costs $65/user. Hard copy manual $20. Quick
Reference Guide, $2.50. There is an updater for the commercial version of Mac
Eudora, 2.0:
ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/mac/eudora/2.0_updater/Eudora2.0-2.0.1.sea.hqx (156 KB)
ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/mac/eudora/2.0_updater/Addendum.sea.hqx (197 KB)
Support : pc-eudora-bugs@qualcomm.com
eudora@qualcomm.com
Systems : 80x86 w/ DOS 3.x, Mac sys 6.x or sys 7.x
TCP/IP support: Winsock support for PC versions.
Mac version uses MacTCP 1.x +
Mail Protocol : SMTP, POP2, POP3
Mail filtering: ??
Features : POP2/3, news client
W-7. SelectMail : SunSelect
Company : SunSelect
Contact : -
Phone : (800) 24-SELECT (US)
(508) 442-2300 (Massachussets)
FAX : (508) 250-2300
Email : -
Postal mail : SunSelect
2 Elizabeth Drive,
Chelmsford,
MA 01824-4195
Product : SelectMail
Current Version:
Pricing : $180
Support : call
Systems : DOS 3.3 +
TCP/IP support: PC-NFS
Mail Protocol : SMTP, POP 2, POP 3
Mail Filtering: none
Features : independant message folders
deferred semdomg
automated scheduler and backup
W-8. AIRMail : Spry, Inc.
Company : Spry, Inc.
Contact : -
Phone : (206) 447-0300
FAX : (206) 447-9008
Email : sales@spry.com
info@spry.com [demo copies]
Postal mail : 316 Occidental Avenue South
Seattle, Washington 98104
USA
Product : AIRMail
Current Version:
Pricing :
Support : call
Systems :
TCP/IP support: Winsock support, Spry AIR for Windows
Mail Protocol : SMTP
Mail Filtering: ?
Features : address book, customizable screen settings
For demo copy email to info@spry.com
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Section X: X-windows Software
X-1. eXceed: Hummingbird Communications Ltd
Company : Hummingbird Communications Ltd
Contact : -
Phone : (416) 470-1203 [US & Canada]
+41 22 7331858 [Europe]
FAX : (416) 470-1207 [US & Canada]
+41 22 7336403 [Europe]
Email : sales@hcl.com
Postal mail : 2900 John Street,
Unit 4, Markham,
Ontario, L3R 5G3
Canada
37-39 rue de Vermont,
1202 Geneva,
Switzerland
Product : HCL eXceed/W
Current Version:
Pricing : ??
Support : site license available in UK from Chest
Systems : MS-Windows 3.x
Services : clients: telnet, FTP, Launch Pad (Menuing facility), Xtrace
(protocol tracing)
servers: X11R5 (support for scalable fonts, font servers,
XDMCP security)
Size :
Features : 24-bit color & plane mask support
supports 15 different TCP/IP transports & DECnet
Xlib, Xt intrinsics, Xaw (Athena Widgets) & Xmu (Motif)
libraries
HCL-eXceed Plus - DOS-based X server with local window
manager and support for EGA, VGA & SVGA
HCL-eXceed HiRes - same as "Plus" but also supports 8514A,
XGA, TIGA 2
HCL-eXtend - UNIX host based X clients for accessing DOS
services
HCL-eXceed/Xpress - High performance X server over phone
lines
HCL-eXceed/NT - X server for PC's running Windows NT
HCL-eXceed/NT-XDK - X Development Kit for Windows NT
X-2. eXcursion for Windows: Digital Equipment Corp.
Company : DEC
Contact :
Phone :
FAX :
Email :
Postal mail :
Product : eXcursion for Windows
Current Version: 1.0
Pricing :
Support :
Systems : 80x86 w/ 2MB RAM & DOS 3.0 & higher & MS-Windows 3.0 or higher
Services :
Size : 7-15 MB [on disk]
Features : Works with:
Pathworks for DOS (DECnet, TCP/IP)
PC/TCP
3Com 3+Open TCP
cut & paste between Xwindows & MS-Windows
SNF font compiler
keyboard redefinition
three button mouse emulation.
X-3. eXodus: White Pines Software, Inc.
Company : White Pines Software, Inc.
Contact :
Phone : (603) 886-9050
FAX : (603) 886-9051
Email : sdarling@wpine.com
Postal mail : White Pine Software, Inc.
40 Simon Street, Suite 201
Nashua, NH 03060-3043
USA
Product : eXodus for Macintosh
eXodus for MS-Windows
(also available eXodus for NeXTSTEP)
Current Version: 5.0
Pricing : eXodus for Macintosh : $296 /copy
eXodus for MS-Windows : $449 /copy
Support :
Systems : Macintosh w System 6.x & higher or A/UX, MS-Windows 3.x
Services : server: X11R5
Size :
Features : XDMCP security, ICCCM compliant, XRemote
Backing store support, Multiple X screen support, Font
servers, rootless & rooted windows
Supports Motif, OpenLook, DECWindows
eXodus for Macintosh supports:
MacTCP, Novell TCPort/LAN Workplace, TSSnet (Thursby
Software Systems), DECnet (CommUnity-Mac), DECnet
(Pathworks), ADSP (Pathworks), Appletalk.
MultiFinder support,
System 6.x or later
eXodus I for Macintosh runs without FPU (MacIIsi,
LC, LCII, LCIII, 512k, etc.)
eXodus II for Macintosh requires an FPU (most other
Macs)
eXodus for MS-Windows
X-4. Micro X-Lite: StarNet Communications Corporation
Company : StarNet Communications Corporation
Contact : Dick Montgomery (dick@starnet.com)
Phone : (408) 739-0881
FAX : (408) 739-0936
Email : microx@starnet.com
Postal mail : StarNet Communications Corporation
3073 Lawrence Expressway
Santa Clara, CA 95051
Product : Micro X-Lite, X-enlite, X-DOS, X-WIN
Current Version: X-Lite - 1.7.2
X-enlite - 1.5.3
X-DOS - 1.7.2
X-WIN - 2.5.4
Pricing : X-Lite - $75
X-enLite - $150
X-DOS - $345
X-WIN - $425
Support : call or support@starnet.com
Systems : 80x86 w/ 640 KB & DOS 3.1 or higher (X-Lite)
80386 w/ 2MB RAM & DOS 3.1 & higher (X-enlite, X-DOS)
80386 w/ 4MB RAM & Win 3.x (X-WIN)
Services : servers: X11R4 (w/ builtin TCP/IP)
X-WIN: X11R5
Size : X-Lite 2MB [on disk]
X-DOS, X-enLite - 4MB [on disk]
X-WIN - 5 MB [on disk]
Cards : 3Com 3C501, 3C503 (Etherlink II), 3C505, 3C523
Cabletron 1000, 2000, & 3000
Micom-Interlan NI5010 & NI5210
Western Digital WD80003E
Novell NE-1000 & NE-2000
Packet driver supported cards
Features : Supports StarNet TCP/IP (integrated), BW-TCP, PC/TCP, Novell
LWP, PC-NFS, Lanera TCPOpen, Winsock 1.1
Support for Motif, OpenLook & DECWindows.
Graphics cards supported:
Ahead V5000, ATI 18800, Everex VP, Everex VGA, Genoa 6400,
Paradise 900C00, 900C11, 900C30, STB EM-16, Trident
8800CS, ET-3000, ET-4000, Video7 HT208, Video7 V7VGA,
X-5. MultiView/X: JSB Corporation
Company : JSB Corporation
Contact :
Phone : (800) 359-3408 [US]
(408) 438-8300 [US, Calif]
+44 0625 433618 [UK]
FAX : (408) 438-8360
Email :
Postal mail :
Product : MultiView/X
Current Version:
Pricing :
Support : call
Systems : 80x86 w/ DOS 3.x & higher & MS-Windows 3.x
Services : server: X11R4 (full font library, XDMCP)
Size :
Features : Supports
RS232 direct & modem connections
3Com 3+Open TCP,
BW-TCP,
D-Link TCP/IP for DOS,
PC/TCP,
HP Arpa Services for DOS,
IBM AIX access for DOS,
Locus TCP/IP,
MS LAN Manager for Unix,
Novell LAN WorkPlace for DOS,
SCO Xenix-Net,
SunSelect PC-NFS,
Ungermann-Bass Net/One,
Wollongong PathWay for DOS,
Support for passive telnet, rsh, rexec, & XDMCP startup
modes
BDF to Windows font compiler
X-6. PC-Xware & PC-Xview : NCD, Inc.
Company : Network Computing Devices, Inc.
Contact : Tom Holder
Phone : (800) 697-7638 [US, NCD sales]
(503) 641-2200 [US, PC-Xdivision]
0628-822228 [UK sales]
+03 5276 2411 [Japan sales]
FAX : (503) 643-8642
Email : thom@pcx.ncd.com
Postal mail : Network Computing Devices, Inc.
PC-Xdivision
5990 SW Gemini Drive
Beaverton, Oregon 97005
USA
Product : PC-Xware for Windows
" NetPack - Chameleon additions
" NetPackNFS - Chameleon NFS additions
" Remote - Xremote (X over Serial lines) version
PC-Xview for DOS - X11R4 compatible, DECwindows support,
Graphics(CGA,MGA,EGA,VGA,SVGA,8514/A,
TIGA,DGIS,XGA)
" Xremote edition
XRemote Host Software
Current Version:
Pricing :
Multi-user
PC-Xware for Windows Part # List 20-49 50-99 100-199 200+
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
PC-Xware PC2510 $545 $327 $289 $245 $218
PC-Xware NetPack PC2530 $735 $441 $404 $382 $360
PC-Xware NetPackNFS PC2540 $795 $477 $437 $413 $390
PC-Xware Remote PC2520 $275 $179 $171 $162 $154
PC-Xview for DOS PC1270 $445 $267 $236 $200 $178
PC-Xview for DOS: PC1290 $199 $129 $123 $117 $111
PC-Xremote Edition
XRemote Host Software: PC3020 $100
PC Edition
Manuals
-------
PC-Xware for Windows PC2510-2 $25
PC-Xview for DOS PC1270-2 $25
Note: All PC-X software is shipped single media (3.5") except PC-Xview for
DOS (dual). To order 5.25" media include and additional line item with the
product part number and a "-M".
Multi-User licenses includes one set of software and one manual for on-site
installation by system administrator.
To order Multi-user licenses, add a "-S" to the part number and note the
quantity desired. For multi-user licenses over 500 copies, contact the
PC-Xdivision.
The price for expanding an existing multi-user license is based on the total
number of seats at a site after ther expansion, not on the current number
being added. To order an expansion, add a "-SA" to the part number and note
the current number being added and the original multi-user license
identification number.
Support :
Annual Maintenance
------------------
Annual maintenance provide multi-user customers with periodic software
updates. The rates are 15% of the multi-user license total. Customers with
colume packaged product in excess of 20 seats may also purchase Annual
Maintenance at 15% of the equivalent Multi-user License total. Bothe
Multi-User and packaged product customers receive one copy of the disks and
documentation for each update. When adding additional seats, the cost is
1.25% of the additional seat cost, product number; to order additional
maintenance to an existing agreement, add a "-AA" to the product number. In
both instances, Multi-User customers must include their license
identification number.
Systems : DOS 3.2x or higher (for PC-Xview for DOS),
MS-Windows 3.x (for PC-Xware for Windows) with:
80386
4 MB RAM
Services : clients: terminal emulation (VT 100, 102, 220, 320),
NFS (optional), FTP (optional), telnet,
SMTP, POP2, SNMP, window managers (NCDwm,
MS-Windows, Host-based [OpenLook, Motif, etc])
servers: X11R5 (Font server support w/ TrueType & ATM for
Windows, XDMCP support, Backing store, Save under
and shape extension support) for Windows version,
X11R4 for DOS version, XRemote
Size : 5 MB [on disk]
Features : Uses NetManage TCP/IP product for communication.
DECnet support via DEC PathWorks.
Supports CGA, EGA, VGA, SVGA, XGA, TIGA, 8514/a, Japanese
Graphics mode
Third-Party TCP/IP include:
Beame & Whiteside Software, Ltd.
DEC
Frontier Technologies Corp.
FTP Software, Inc.
Hewlett-Packard Corp.
Microsoft Corp.
Novell, Inc.
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Ungermann-Bass, Ltd.
The Wollongong Group, Inc.
3Com Corp.
Windows Sockets API
Can be run from a server.
cut & paste between Xwindows & MS-Windows
Administration & configuration:
License server capability
Remote configuartion cia NCDware User Services
SNMP with NCD MIB extensions for X
X-7. PC X-Server & PC-Link: XLink
Company : XLink
Contact :
Phone : (408) 263-8201
FAX : (408) 263-8203
Email :
Postal mail : XLink
741 Ames Ave.,
Milpitas CA 95035
USA
Product : PC X-Server
PC-Link
Current Version:
Pricing : PC X-Server $249
PC-Link $99
Support :
Systems : 386 w/ 4 MB, DOS 3.3
Services : clients: telnet (vt 52, 100, ANSI), FTP, TFTP, NFS, Tar
servers: X11R5 (PC X-Server)
Size : 2 MB [on disk]
Features : Supports NDIS, ODI, SLIP, Packet drivers
Supports S-3 based adapters, 8514 based adapters,
SVGA [Paradise/Western Digital WD90C00/11/30/21,
OAK 067/077, Trident 8900/9000, Tseng ET3000/ET4000, ATI
Wonder, Cirrus Logix 542x, Video 7 HT208/209/216] & VGA
X server recognizes SNF, PCF & SPD fonts
X-8. PC Xsight: Locus Computing Corporation
Company : Locus Computing Corporation
Contact : -
Phone : (800) 955-6287 [US]
(213) 670-6500 [US, Calif]
+44 296 89911 [UK]
FAX : -
Email : -
Postal mail : 9800 La Cienega Blvd.
Inglewood, CA 90301
USA
Product : PC Xsight
Current Version:
Pricing :
Support :
Systems : 8088, 8086, 80x86, DOS 3.1 or later
Services :
Size : 512 KB base memory, 896 extended memory,
1 MB [disk usage]
Cards : Excelan EXOS 205/205T
3Com 3C501
Western Digital WD8003E
Micom NI5210
Multitech 5220
Features : supports 2 or 3 button mouse
EGA, VGA, Hercules, AT&T 6300
X-9. PC DECWindows Motif : Digital Equipment Corporation
Company : Digitial Equipment Corporation
Contact :
Phone :
FAX :
Email :
Postal mail : PC DECWindows Development
Digital Equipment Corporation
30 Porter Rd.
Littleton, MA 01460
USA
Product : PC DECWindows Motif
Current Version: 3.0
Pricing :
Support :
Systems :
Services :
Size :
Cards : ??
Features : Supports EGA (16 col. & mono), MCGA, VGA (16 color & mono)
enhanced VGA (800x600 16 color & mono), 8514/a (1024x768
16/256 color)
X11 Release 4 server
integrated memory manager
Font compiler for Adobe Bitmap Distribution files
Supports TCP/IP & DECNET from DEC.
X-10. Reflection X : Walker, Richer & Quinn
Company : Walker, Richer, & Quinn, Inc.
Contact : Nancy Miller
Phone : (800) 872-2829
(206) 324-0407
+31 70 375 1100 [Europe, Netherlands]
FAX : (206) 322-8151
+31 70 376 1244 [Europe, Netherlands]
Email :
Postal mail : Walker Richer & Quinn, Inc.
2815 Eastlake Avenue East
Seattle, Washington 98102
Buitenhof 47,
2513 AH Den Haag,
The Netherlands
Product : Reflection X (X windows)
Current Version: -
Pricing :
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Product one copy 2-10 copies
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Ref. X $469 $330 ea.
Ref. X + TCP $599 $420 ea.
Support : Free Updates for 1yr.
call
Systems : DOS 3.3 +, Windows 3.0
Services : X server, FTPD
Size :
Features : Works with Winsock 1.1, LAN Manager, Netware 3.11
X-11. X Appeal : Xtreme s.a.s.
Company : Xtreme s.a.s.
Contact : Giovanni Novelli
Phone : -
FAX : +39 586-502310 [Italy]
Email : xappeal@xtreme.it
Postal mail : Xtreme s.a.s.
Livorno, Italy
Product : X Appeal
Current Version: 1.3
Pricing : Price per copy for
Product 1 copy 20 copies 50 copies 100 copies 200 copies
====================================================================
X Appeal US$250 US$218 US$184 US$150 US$117
unlimited site license: US $30,000
additional 30% off for educational institutions.
Demo versions available from:
garbo.uwasa.fi: pc/demo/{xap13exe.zip, xap10fon.zip}
Support : -
Systems : 386SX or higher w/ 2MB RAM (4MB rec.) & DOS 3.3 or higher
Services : X11R5 (inc. PEX, font server, european keyboard layouts, XDMCP)
Size : ~ 3MB [on disk]
Cards : packet driver support.
Features : TCP/IP included.
Support for OpenWindows, DECWindwos fonts
Support for MIT X-Authorization (Magic cookie)
Graphics support: SVGA (256 col.), Ahead V5000B, C&T 82C452,
NCR 77C22E, Genoa (6400), Oak Tech. (OTI-067),
Paradise/Western Digital WD90C00, Trident 8900,
Trident 8900C, Tseng Labs (ET3000, ET4000).
X-12. Xoftware : AGE Logic, Inc.
Company : AGE Logic, Inc.
Contact : Craig A. Schmidt, VP Marketing
Scott Sabul
Phone : (619) 455-8600
(619) 565-7373
FAX : (619) 597-6030
Email : sales@age.com
Postal mail : AGE Logic, Inc.
9985 Pacific Heights Blvd.
San Diego, CA 92121-4337
USA
Product : Xoftware for DOS
Xoftware/32 for MS-Windows
Xoftware/32 for MS-Windows NT
Xoftware for Windows Desktop Edition (DT).
Current Version: DOS - 1.4
Windows - 2.02
Windows DT - 1.7
Windows NT - 1.0
Pricing : Xoftware for DOS - $195
Xoftware/32 for Windows - $395
Xoftware/32 for NT - $495
Xoftware for Windows Desktop Edition - $195
Support : telephone support 7am-5pm (PST), BBS
Systems : 80386 w/ 2 MB RAM & Windows 3.x or higher (Windows ver)
80286 w/ 2 MB RAM & DOS 3.1 or higer (DOS ver.)
x86 or MIPS R4000 systems (NT ver)
Services : server: X11R5 server
Size : 2 MB [disk space]
Cards : depends on Network software used:
3Com 3+Open TCP 1.2 or higher
DEC Pathworks TCP/IP 1.1 or higher
PC/TCP 2.05 or higher
Novell LAN WorkPlace 4.01 or higher
SunSelect PC-NFS 3.5 or higher
Wollogong PathWay 2.05 or higher
Ungermann-Bass Net/ONE TCP 16.5 or higher
Wollongong WinTCP 1.1 or higher
Wollongong PathWay Access 4.1.1 or higher
Walker Richer, Quinn TCP 2.0 or higher
winsock version available (call AGE)
Features : Hotkeys to DOS & MS Windows
Motif, OpenLook, DECWindows support
International keyboard support
Full SNF font library
Supports EGA, VGA, SVGA, 8514
XDMCP support, 32 bit Xserver.
X-13. X/Vision: Visionware
Company : Visionware
Contact : A. Rodriguez [US]
Phone : (800) 949-8474 [US]
(415) 325-2113 [US, California]
+44 532 788858 [Europe]
FAX : (415) 325-8710 [US]
+44 532 304676 [Europe]
Email : vware@visionware.co.uk
Postal mail : VisionWare
1020 Marsh Road, Suite 220
Menlo Park, CA 94025
USA
57 Cardigan Lane
Leeds LS4 2LE
UK
Product : X/Vision
Current Version: 5
Pricing : $395 single. site licenses available (call)
Support : unlimited toll-free telephone support dor all VisionWare
products
Systems : MS-DOS 3.0 or later, MS-Windows 3.x, Windows NT
1.2 MB 5.25" or 1.44 MB 3.5" floppy drive
2MB of RAM required; 4MB recommended
Services : clients: object-oriented desktop (drag & drop facility),
VT320 emulation, REXEC, RSH, RLOGIN and telnet,
file transfer & local printing
server: X11R5 server (fonts, font server & XDMCP security)
Size :
Features : Optimized serial communication support via XRemote support
Comprehensive 24-bit color support
Automatic network protocol detection and configuration
Automatic font substitution as well as standard MIT fonts
(75 & 100 dpi), DECwindows and Open Look. TrueType and
Adobe fonts can be mapped.
SHAPE extensions, XRemote support.
Will work with the following systems:
Beame & Whiteside TCP/IP
DECnet
Excelan LAN WorkPlace 3.5
FTP PC/TCP 2.05 & 2.03/4
Hewlett Packard ARPA Services 2.0 & 2.1
Locus TCP/IP for DOS v1.0 & 2.0
NetManage Newt & Chameleon
Novell LAN WorkPlace for DOS 3.5 & 4.0
Novell Netware
Sun PC-NFS v3.5 & 4.0
Ungermann-Bass NET/One TCP-PC 16.4
Wollongong PathWay 2.0
Wollongong WIN/TCP for DOS
Windows Sockets Interface
3Com TCP 1.2 (3+Open)
X-14. X-Windows for OS/2: IBM
Company : IBM
Contact : -
Phone : (800) IBM-CALL
FAX : (303) 440-1639
Email : -
Postal mail :
Product : IBM X-Windows for OS/2
Current Version: 2.0
Pricing : Xwindows client $195 (#65G1243)
Xwindows server $230 (#65G1228)
Support : call
Systems : 80386SX or higher w/ 6MB RAM & OS/2 2.x
Services : server: X11R5 (font library & compiler)
Size :
Features : Support for EGA, VGA, SVGA, XGA, 8514/a, any other OS/2
supported cards
Requires IBM OS/2 TCP/IP
Other modules available: NFS, Programmers Toolkit (RPC,
sockets API, resolver API, Kerberos, etc.)
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Section Y: Third Party & Related Software
Y-1. eNFS: INTERSTREAM
Company : INTERSTREAM, Inc.
Contact :
Phone : (800) 677-7876
(412) 323-8000
FAX : (412) 323-1930
Email : info@interstream.com
Postal mail : INTERSTREAM, Inc.
1501 Reedsale St.
Pittsburgh,
PA 15233-2329
USA
Product : eNFS
Current Version: ??
Pricing : $995 [desktop]
$1995 [server]
Support : ??
Systems : SPARCstation 1, 2, SPARCserver 490,690
Services : server: optimized server board for NFS
Size : -
Features : -
Y-2. Multinet: TGV, Inc
Company : TGV, Inc.
Contact : SALES@TGV.COM or as call and ask for a salesperson.
Phone : (800) TGV-3440
(408) 427-4366
FAX : (408) 427-4365
Email : info@tgv.com [general questions]
sales@tgv.com [sales questions]
service@tgv.com [technical questions]
Postal mail : 603 Mission St
Santa Cruz,
CA 95060
USA
Product : Multinet, NFS Server, NFS Client, MultiWare NetWare server
for VMS
Current Version: 3.2
Pricing : call for quotation
Support : support contract available, Call.
Systems : Any VAX/VMS system V5.0 and later.
Any OpenVMS AXP system V1.0 and later.
Services : [call for customization]
Size : [depends on configuration]
Features : (NFS Server option supports pcnfsd v2)
Very complete ONC implementation.
Y-6. SOSS: Rich Braun
Company : --
Contact : Richard Braun [rbraun@spdcc.com]
Phone : --
FAX : --
Email : rbraun@spdcc.com
stan@cs.uiuc.edu
Postal mail : --
Product : SOSS [Son of Stan's Server]
Current Version: 3.2
Pricing : free
Support : none
Systems : MS-DOS 5.x
Services : server: nfs
Size : ??
Features : uses packet drivers. Available from FTP site:
grape.ecs.clarkson.edu
Y-7. TCPWare for VMS: Process Software Corp.
Company : Process Software Corp.
Contact :
Phone : (508) 879-6994
FAX :
Email :
Postal mail : 959 Concord St.
Farmingham,
MA 01701
USA
Product :
Current Version:
Pricing :
Support :
Systems :
Services :
Size :
Features :
Y-9 Trumpet Winsock : Peter Tattam
Company : -
Contact : Peter R. Tattam
Phone : -
FAX : -
Email : peter@pyschnet.psychol.utas.edu.au
Postal mail : -
Product : Trumpet Winsock
Current Version: v19
Pricing : free (shareware in future). FTP it from:
ftp.utas.edu.au:/pc/trumpet/trumpet/winsock/winsock.zip (DLL only)
ftp.utas.edu.au:/pc/trumpet/trumpet/winsock/winapps.zip (Applications only)
Support : none
Systems : Windows 3.1
Services : freeware winsock.dll, telnet, ftp, archie, talk, ping,
traceroute,
Size :
Features : First freeware winsock DLL.
Built in SLIP driver.
Works with packet drivers.
This is Peter's Web page for the Trumpet Winsock.
Y-11. Cello : Thomas R. Bruce
Company : Cornell Law School
Contact : Thomas R. Bruce.
Phone : -
FAX : -
Email : tom@law.mail.cornell.edu
cellobug@fatty.law.cornell.edu
Postal mail : -
Product : Cello
Current Version: 1
Pricing : free. ftp it from:
ftp.law.cornell.edu:/pub/LII/Cello/cello.zip
ftp.utas.edu.au:/pc/win31/net/cello.zip
Support : There is an FAQ for Cello here:
ftp.law.cornell.edu:/pub/LII/Cello/cellofaq.zip
send email to cellobug address above. try CELLO-L listserv.
listserv@fatty.law.cornell.edu
SUB CELLO-L your full name
Systems : MS-Windows 3.1
Services : WWW client
Size :
Features : works with following winsock.dll's :
Trumpet Winsock
Distinct
PC/TCP (at least v1.09)
BW-TCP
Frontier
LAN WorkPlace for DOS
Y-12 MacPPP
Company : Merit Network & Univ. of Michigan
Larry Blunk, Eric Schneider
Contact :
Phone :
FAX : -
Email :
Postal mail : -
Product : MacPPP
Current Version: 1.1, 2.0
Pricing : free. Available from:
merit.edu:/pub/ppp/macppp1.1.hqx
Support : none
Systems : v1.1 = Macintosh systems w/ MacTCP 1.1.1
v2.0 = Macintosh Systems w/ MacTCP 2.x
Services : Point-to-point Protocol driver
Size :
Features : Async serial line connection for Macintosh systems.
Y-13. PPP for NCSA Telnet : Merit Network.
Company : Merit Network, Inc.
Contact : Glenn McGregor
Phone : -
FAX : -
Email :
Postal mail :
Product : PPP packet driver for NCSA Telnet v2.3
Current Version:
Pricing : free. available from:
merit.edu:/pub/ppp/ncsappp.zip
Support :
Systems : 80x86 w/ 1 MB RAM & DOS 4.x+
Services : PPP Packet driver
Size :
Features :
Y-14. AIR Navigator
Company : SPRY, Inc.
Contact : Paul Johnson (paul@spry.com)
Phone : (206) 447-0300
FAX : (206) 447-9008
Email : sales@spry.com
info@spry.com [demo copies]
Postal mail : 316 Occidental Avenue South
Seattle, Washington 98104
USA
Product : AIR Navigator
Current Version: 1.0
Pricing : $149
Support : call
Systems : 80x86
Services : mail, news, gopher
Size :
Features : SLIP, PPP support.
Y-15. WATTCP : Erick Engelke
Company : -
Contact : Erick Engelke
Phone : -
FAX : -
Email : N/A
Postal mail : N/A
Product : WATTCP programming libraries
WATTCP applications
Current Version: July 1993
Pricing : free. FTP from:
dorm.rutgers.edu: /pub/msdos/wattcp/{wattcp.zip,apps.zip}
The WATTCP Programming Manual is priced as following:
Visa/MC/AE/Cheque/Check/Money Order US$40
or Purchase Order US$60
+ shipping/handling (US or Canada) US$5
or Airmail elsewhere US$10
Credit card sales can be made entirely by email.
Support : none.
Systems : MS-DOS w/ Packet Drivers
Services : clients: TN3270, ftp, ping, bootp, finger, smtp
servers: telnetd, ftpd, smtpd,
Size : 30-55 KB
Features : Separate programmers referrence is available. It was written
by Erick Engelke (designer of WATTCP) and has many of the
popular WATTCP applications. The manual provides a tutorial
to programming under WATTCP with various related topics and
a complete referrence section. To order the manual please
mail:
WATTCP Programmers Manual
c/o Supro Network Software, Inc.
P.O. Box 18, Warsaw, Ontario
Canada KOL-3A0
(705) 652-1572
or email:
wattcp@snsi.com
Pricing is as above.
NOTE: Supro cannot answer any questions about this software
and the author does not provide the documentation. Please do
not use the above email address for support questions.
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Section Z: Organizations, Products & Other Information sources
Z-1. AIR for Windows: SPRY, Inc.
Company : SPRY, Inc.
Contact : Paul Johnson (paul@spry.com)
Phone : (206) 447-0300
FAX : (206) 447-9008
Email : sales@spry.com
Postal mail : 316 Occidental Avenue South
Seattle, Washington 98104
USA
Product : AIR for Windows
Current Version: 2.0
Pricing :
Item Short Description Price
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
AIR basic app's (no nfs) $299
AIR NFS Full set of all app's $399
AIR CORE stack, telnet, ftp $239
AIR X Xwindows server $199
AIR SQL stack, telnet $149
AIR Navigator Mail, news, gopher $149
NFS NFS client for DOS & Windows $99
Support :
Systems : MS-Windows 3.1
Services : clients: telnet (vt220), FTP, LPR, Ping, NFS client
ftpd, AIRMAIL (smtp), bootp
Size :
Features : supports ODI & NDIS
Windows Sockets support.
App2Sock library supporting Winsock, Novell WLIBSOCK,
SunSelects TKLIB.
X windows package available.
Z-2. BW-NFS & BW-TCP: Beame & Whiteside
Company : Beame & Whiteside Software Ltd.
Contact : Terry Woloszyn
Phone : (919) 831-8989
FAX : (919) 831-8990
Email : sales@bws.com
Postal mail : Beame & Whiteside Software Ltd.
706 Hillsborough St.
Raleigh, North Carolina
USA, 27603-1655
Product : BW-TCP, BW-NFS, BW-NFS for Lan WorkPlace, Boot Proms
Current Version: BW-TCP and BW-NFS version 3.0, BW-NFS for LWP v2.3
Pricing :
Order # Description Purchase
Price per Copy
============================================================
BW310 BW-TCP $245.00
BW410 BW-NFS $349.00
BW420 BW-NFS for LAN WorkPlace $245.00
BW430 BW-NFS for Ungermann-Bass $245.00
BW511 BW-BOOTP PROM (WD80x3) $50.00
BW512 BW-BOOTP PROM (3C501) $50.00
BW551 BW-BOOTR PROM (WD80x3) $50.00
BW552 BW-BOOTR PROM (3C501) $50.00
"Right to Copy" discounts are offered for all products
except for BW-BOOT PROMS. Discounts are calculated by the
number of individual copies ordered multiplied by the
purchase price per copy minus the discount level percentage.
Example: BW-NFS required for 37 computers (Level 2)
37 x $349.00 = $12,913.00 - 36% ($4,648.68) = $8,264.32
Description Level Level Level Level Level Level Level Level
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
No. of Copies 5-19 20-49 50-99 100-249 250-499 500-749 750-999 1000+
Discount 30% 36% 39% 46% 55% 62% 66% 69%
FOB Shipping Point
All pricing is quoted in United States dollars.
Shipment (unless otherwise requested): UPS Air.
Prices subject to change without notice.
Media (unless otherwise requested): 3.5"
Support : we do offer a maintenance and support agreement (if you
would like further info I can fax it to you), phone support
is through the telephone number above or by email at
support@bws.com.
Ftp sites are:
dorm.rutgers.edu and
ftp.bws.com
Systems : DOS 3.1 and above, DRDOS 6.0, MS-Windows 3.x
Services : client: NFS (up to 24 disks, 8 printers), telnet (vt52,
vt100, vt220), TN3270, FTP, ping, TFTP, XMODEM,
Kermit, finger, whois, nslookup, traceroute
(TROUTE), talk, POP2/3, SMTP, BW-TAR, COM14
server: ftpd, fingerd, lpd, tnamed, talkd/ntalkd, cookied,
telnetd, inetd, snmpd
Size : BW-TCP 26K typical configuration, loadable high
BW-NFS 30K typical configuration, loadable high
approx 2 MB on hard disk
Features : BW-NFS includes BW-TCP product.
NDIS/Packet/ODI drivers supported, co-existance with
Novell, SLIP, Boot PROMs, third party applications - x vendors
currently have a sockets diskette that we will ship if asked
for, WINSOCK support within one month.
First INETD for Windows. Supports TELNETD with remote logins
as virtual DOS windows.
Supported Network Interface cards:
3Com 3C501, 3C503
SMC Elite Series,
NDIS, ODI, Packet driver, SLIP, Token-Ring Interfaces
Minimum Configuration required:
IBM PC or 100% compatible with 256K Ram
One floppy disk drive
Z-3. Chameleon NFS: NetManage, Inc.
Company : NetManage, Inc.
Contact : Zvi Alon & Fritz Mueller
Jerry Kenny
Phone : (408) 973-7171
FAX : (408) 257-6405
Email : support@netmanage.com
Postal mail : NetManage, Inc.
20823 Stevens Creek Blvd,
Cupertino, CA 95014
USA
Product : Chameleon NFS
Current Version: 3.10
Pricing : Site License pricing available on request.
Product Price Product #
====================================================
Chameleon $400 P/N CHAM-001
ChameleonNFS $495 P/N CHNS-001
Xsession $445
Chameleon32 (NT Developer rel) $495 P/N IPXL-001
IPX/Link (Netware option) $150
NEWT-SDK (req. Chameleon) $500
RPC-SDK (req. Chameleon & NEWT) $500
Support : support@netmanage.com
(408) 973-7171 [9am-9pm (EST), weekdays]
quarterly newsletter.
FTP server (ftp.netmanage.com)
Maintanence contracts are available which give free support
and free upgrades for 1 year.
Systems : MSDOS 5.x, Windows 3.x
Services : client: telnet (vt 52, 100, 220, ANSI), TN3270, FTP, TFTP,
SMTP, POP2, SNMP, Ping, BIND, NFS, Finger, Whois,
BOOTP, Statistics, IP Routing
server: TFTP, FTP, NFS, DNS, SMTP, POP2, SNMP Agent
Size : 6KB (RAM), 3 MB of disk space
Features : 100% DLL
5 minute installation
All applications are Windows based
supports Ethernet, Token-Ring, FDDI, NDIS, SLIP, X.25
WinSock API, Berkeley 4.3 sockets API, ONC RPC/XDR,
and WinSNMP API tools available
Works concurrently with Netware, LAN MAnager, Vines, etc.
Up to 64 concurrent sessions.
Overnight delivery
PC X server and DOS based product are available
A product for Windows NT is available.
Z-4. CU/TCP: Clarkson University
Organization : Clarkson University & Rutgers University
Contact : -
Phone : -
FAX : -
Email :
Postal mail : -
Product : CU/TCP
Current Version: 2.5
Pricing : free. Available from the following sites:
ftp-ns.rutgers.edu:/pub/msdos/cutcp/current/cutcp-b.zip (Binaries)
ftp-ns.rutgers.edu:/pub/msdos/cutcp/current/cutcp-s.zip (Source Code)
Support : none
Systems : MS-DOS
Services : clients: telnet (vt100), TN3270, FTP, SLIP
servers: ftpd (during open connections only)
Size :
Features : works with the following drivers:
3c503, appletalk, slip, WD8003
works with Packet drivers, ODI
Z-5. Distinct TCP
Company : Distinct Corp.
Contact : -
Phone : (408) 741-0781
(408) 867-4742
FAX : (408) 741-0795
Email : mktg@distinct.com
Postal mail : Distinct Corp.
14082 Loma Rio Drive,
Saratoga,
CA 95070
USA
Product : Distinct TCP
Current Version: 3.02
Pricing : TCP/IP Tools - $395
SDK - $495
SDK professional - $695
Support :
Systems : DOS 3.3+, Windows 3.0+
Services : clients: Telnet, ftp, lpr, tftp, ping, tar, monitor, bootp,
rarp,
servers: bootp, rarp, dns, routed
Size :
Features : supports Ethernet, Token-Ring, packet drivers, NDIS, SLIP,
CSLIP, PPP, ODI drivers
Works with Lan Manager, Vines, PathWorks, Lantastic, Netware
Up to 128 concurrent sessions
100 % DLL stacks.
Winsock, Berkeley sockets and RPC/XDR libraries in SDK.
Z-7. LAN Workplace: Novell, Inc.
Company : Novell, Inc.
Contact : -
Phone : (800) 772-UNIX
FAX : (408) 473-8990
Email : sales@novell.com
Postal mail : Novell, Inc.
122 East 1700 South,
Provo,
UT 84606
USA
Product : LAN Workplace
Current Version: 4.1 release 8
Pricing : Pricing for Macintosh, DOS & Windows versions are equal
# of users DOS/Windows
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 $399
10 $1995
50 $9975
100 $12995
Support : call
Systems : 80x86, 2 MB RAM, DOS 3.x+ & Windows 3.1 (Windows version)
Macintosh w/ 2 MB RAM & System 7.0
Services : telnet (vt15,100,220), FTP, RCP, REXEC, TFTP, FTPD, TFTPD,
ping, finger, fingerD, whois, LPR, LPRM, LPQ, XPC (telnet
server for DOS vers.)
Size : ?
Features : support Ethernet, Token-Ring, packet drivers (shim), NDIS
(shim), SLIP, PPP, ODI
MacTCP support for Mac version
Z-8. NCSA Telnet: National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Company : National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Contact : -
Phone : -
FAX : -
Email :
Postal mail :
Product : WinTel v1.0b.1 (MS-Windows version)
NCSA Telnet (DOS version)
NCSA Telnet (Macintosh version)
Current Version: 2.5
Pricing : free. Available from the following sites:
zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu:/PC/Telnet/msdos
zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu:/PC/Telnet/windows
Support : none.
Systems : MS-DOS, MS-Windows, MacOS
Services : clients: telnet (vt100), TN3270, FTP, SLIP
servers: ftpd (during open connections only)
Size :
Features : works with the following drivers:
3c503, appletalk, slip, WD8003
works with Packet drivers
Z-9. NFS/Share: Intercon Systems Corp
Company : Intercon Systems Corp.
Contact : sales@intercon.com
Phone : (703) 709-5500
FAX : (703) 709-5555
Email : sales@intercon.com
Postal mail : 950 Herndon Pkwy,
Suite 420
Herndon,
VA 22070
USA
Product : NFS/Share
Current Version: 1.3
Pricing :
Number of Copies Cost
===============================
1 copy $295
10-user bundle $2,495
25-user bundle $4,995
50-user bundle $8,900
100-user bundle $14,950
educational discounts available.
Support : First 90 days of support free;
Extended support may be purchased separately
Technical support: (703) 709-5520 or
tech@intercon.com
Systems : Macintosh II series, System 6.05 or later
Services : NFS/Share: NFS client for Macintosh systems.
Size : 212 KB
Features : Simple to use--Files from the remote systems take on the
familiar format of the Mac documents you always use. There
are no new operating procedures or software systems to
learn. Certain text files, such as UNIX, are accessible
from any Macintosh editor or word processor.
Macintosh resident--Once you have the physical link to the
network and NFS/Share, you need nothing other than access
to NFS servers on the network. NFS/Share works with
Macintosh computers and is completely System 7.0 compatible.
Access multiple remote machines easily--Just go through Apple's
Chooser and you are there. A list of available servers or
remote systems appears in a pop-up window. You can access
several remote machines at the same time, and, just like
your hard drive, they appear as icons on your desktop.
Apple standard--NFS/Share uses Apple's defined standards
(AppleSingle or AppleDouble) for representing files for
foreign file systems.
Simultaneous access--Multiple users can easily access the same
information at the same time without the need for different
mounting points.
Security maintained--User authentication is done through Sun
Microsystems' NIS (Yellow Pages), PCNFSD, or BWNFSD. Each
user is presented with lists of access or mounting points
automatically.
Z-10. NS & ARPA Services: Hewlett-Packard
Company : Hewlett-Packard
Contact : -
Phone : (408) 725-8111
FAX :
Email :
Postal mail : Hewlett-Packard
19420 Homestead Rd.,
Cupertino,
CA 94014
USA
Product : NS & ARPA Services
Current Version: 2.5
Pricing :
Support :
Systems :
Services :
Size :
Features : supports Ethernet, Token-Ring, packet drivers, NDIS, ODI (shim)
Z-11. PathWay Access & Client NFS: The Wollongong Group, Inc.
Company : The Wollongong Group, Inc.
Contact : Marty Udisches
(415) 962-7226
martyu@twg.com
Phone : (415) 962-7202
(800) 962-8649 (California) [toll-free]
(800) 872-8649 (US) [toll-free]
+1 519 747-9900 (Canada)
+1 32-27-18-0311 (Europe)
FAX : (415) 962-0286 (US)
Email : sales@twg.com
Postal mail : The Wollongong Group, Inc.
1129 San Antonio Road
Palo Alto, CA 94303
USA
Product : PathWay Access & Client NFS [PathWay product line]
Current Version: 2.0
yPricing : PathWay Access - $350 (multi-copy pricing - call)
Client NFS - $95
API Developer's Kit for DOS/Windows - $200
Support : call
Systems : MS-DOS 5.x, MS-Windows 3.x
Services : clients: telnet (vt 100, 200, 320, 330) IBM TN3270 (model 2
- 5), IBM 3179g, Tektronix 4010, FTP, mail,
newsreader, scripting language. NFS, LPR
servers: ftpd,
Size : 50-60 KB (in RAM)
Features : adjustable read & write block sizes
available standalone or as option to Pathway Access TCP/IP
package.
similar functionality, look-and-feel & API compatibility
across DOS, MS-Windows, Macintosh, OS/2, OpenVMS.
Support for ODI, NDIS, PDS, ASI, ODI/NDIS, SLIP, PPP,
IPX/NDIS, IP/IPX, IP/NetBIOS.
Support for Etherenet, Token-Ring, Async, X.25
Special : for Pathway Access: 30-day free evaluation copy.
Z-12. PathWay Access for OS/2: The Wollongong Group
Company : The Wollongong Group
Contact : Jeff Oxendine
(415) 962-7143
Phone : (415) 962-7202
(800) 962-8649 (California) [toll-free]
(800) 872-8649 (US) [toll-free]
+1 519 747-9900 (Canada)
+1 32-27-18-0311 (Europe)
FAX : (415) 962-0286 (US)
Email : sales@twg.com
Postal mail : The Wollongong Group, Inc.
1129 San Antonio Road
Palo Alto, CA 94303-4310
USA
Product : PathWay Access for OS/2
Current Version: ?
Pricing : ?
Support : call
Systems : IBM PS/2 or 386 w/ 1MB RAM, OS/2 2.x
Services : clients: telnet (vt 100, 220, 240, 320, 340, IBM 3278,
3179G, Tektronix 4105, 4010), FTP, DNS, LPR, Ping,
Stat
Size : At least 2 MB [on disk], 80 KB [average, RAM]
Features : Supports NDIS & ODI for Ethernet & Token-Ring
Supports Netware, LAN Manager, VINES, IBM LAN Server
Keyboard remapping.
Supports NetBIOS, SNMP, SNAP, ARP
Up to 12 concurrent terminal connections
API Developrs Tool Kit available; this includes BSD 4.3
Sockets, 32 bit DLL.
Online help available.
Service Scripting capabilities.
Z-13. PC-NFS: SunSelect
Company : SunSelect
Contact : John Keyes
(508) 442-0546
john.keyes@east.sun.com
Phone : (800) 24SELECT
(508) 442-0000
FAX : (508) 250-5068
Email :
Postal mail : SunSelect,
2 Elizabeth Drive,
Chelmsford,
MA 01824
USA
Product : PC-NFS
Current Version: 5.0
Pricing :
Description Order List/Discount
Number Price/Category
-----------------------------------------------------------
PC-NFS 5.0 PCN-P $435/B
PC-NFS 5.0 single license PCN-W $365/B
PC-NFS 5.0 Base Pack PCN-B** $105/B
PC-NFS 5.0 25 user license PCN-L25** $5,535/B
PC-NFS 5.0 100 user license PCN-L100** $12,990/ND
PC-NFS 5.0 500 user license PCN-L500** $48,650/ND
PC-NFS 5.0 upgrade PCN-PF $80/ND
PC-NFS 5.0 site upgrade PCN-PSITEF $4,050/ND
PC-NFS 5.0 documentation PCN-D $75/ND
(minimum order quantity 10)
**L25, L100, L500 require a Base Pack
Support : Compuserve: "go sunselect"
Internet Ftp sites:
bcm.tmc.edu
src.doc.ic.ac.uk
ftpserver.massey.ac.nz
ftp.york.ac.uk
A 5 year site license is available in the UK from Chest [Z-28]
Systems : MS-DOS 5.x, MS-Windows 3.x
Services : clients : NFS, telnet (vt 52, 100, 220, 320), rsh, rcp,
rexec, ping, nfsping, NIS, netstat
servers : ftp, print server (optional), SNMP (optional)
other: Windows Sockets ABI
Size : 80-90 KB (RAM usage) [can be loaded high],
requires 3.5 MB free disk space for new install, 6.0 MB for
Windows install.
Features : ISO-9660 CD-ROM, OS/2 FAT support.
Coexists with: Windows for Workgroups, Netware 3.x, NetBIOS
ODI drivers, NDIS drivers, packet drivers.
Ethernet, Token-Ring, SLIP
Support for Solaris 2.x (Solaris-on-Intel version
forthcoming)
Remote server-based Licensing management.
WinSock API support.
Minimum requirements:
IBM PC w/ 640 KB RAM
MSDOS 3.3
3.5 MB for DOS install, 6.0 for MSWindows install
Supported boards:
3Com 3C503, 3C505, 3C523,
Ungerman-Bass PC-NIC
Western Digital WD8003E
Racal Interlan NT5010
IBM Token-Ring Network 16/4 Adapter for (AT & MCA
buses)
NDIS compatible supported boards:
3C501, 3C503, 3C505, 3C507, 3C523
WD8003E/A, WD8003E/B
NE1000, NE2000
Xircom Ethernet Adapters
3Com TokenLink AT bus
Z-14. PC/TCP: FTP Software, Inc.
Company : FTP Software, Inc.
Contact : Chip Sparling
chip@ftp.com
(508) 685-3300
(508) 794-4477 [FAX]
Phone : (508) 685-4000 - general information
(508) 685-3300 - sales informaiton
(800) 282-4FTP - sales
(508) 685-3600 - technical support
(800) 282-4FTP - support
FAX : (508) 794-4477 - sales
(508) 794-4484 - techincal support
(508) 794-4488 - general
Email : info@ftp.com - general information
sales@ftp.com - sales information
support@ftp.com - technical support
Postal mail : ftp Software, Inc.
2 High Street
North Andover, MA 01845
USA
Product : PC/TCP
Current Version: 2.2
Pricing : $400 - single copy
$175/copy - 20-49 copies
$150/copy - 50-99 copies
$130/copy - 100-499 copies
$110/copy - 500-999 copies
$99/copy - 1000 or more copies
Support : Support & upgrade of multiple copy sites handled through
maintenance contract
Techincal support bulletin board: (508) 659-6240
Internet FTP servers:
ftp.com - 3rd party applications
vax.ftp.com - Specifications, drivers,
newsletters, etc.
Systems : MS-DOS 5.x, MS-Windows 3.x, OS/2 2.0
Services : clients: NFS, telnet (vt 52,100,220), TN3270, ftp, ping,
inet, email (POP2/3, PCmail, SMTP), finger, whois,
nicname, setclock, host, bootp, rsh, rexec, rcp,
tar, news, cookie, printing (LPR, LPQ, LPRM)
servers for DOS/Windows: ftp, tftp, SNMP, SMTP
servers for OS/2: ftp, tftp, SNMP, LPD, finger, bootp,
inetd, DNS, mail, rexec, telnet
Size : "standard" (4 NFS mounts, 6 TCP connections) = 125KB
Using EMM = 26KB
Features : many 3rd party applications use this as transport: network
management tools, X-windows, databases, multimedia & imaging
packages, etc.
OS/2 version supports NDIS for SLIP, Ethernet & Token-Ring
DOS version supports Packet Drivers, NDIS drivers, ASI
drivers, ODI drivers for DIX & 802.3 Ethernet, Token-Ring,
SLIP, PPP & X.25
Also known to work for 802.7 (broadband/CATV), AX.25 (packet
radio), FDDI, ISDN & possibly SMDS.
Co-exists with Banyan Vines, LanManager, Windows for
Workgroups, and Netware.
RFC compliant NetBIOS interface
PC/TCP BootPROMs available for Ethernet cards.
Z-15. Reflection Network Series : Walker Richer & Quinn
Company : Walker Richer & Quinn, Inc.
Contact : Nancy Miller
Phone : (800) 926-3896 [US]
(206) 324-0407 [Washington, US]
+31 70 375 1100 [Europe, Netherlands]
FAX : (206) 322-8151
+31 70 376 1244 [Europe, Netherlands]
Email : -
Postal mail : Walker, Richer & Quinn, Inc.
2815 Eastlake Ave. East,
Seattle, Washington 98102
USA
Buitenhof 47,
2513 AH Den Haag,
The Netherlands
Product : Reflection 1 (HP 700/92, 2392A, DEC VT102 emulators)
Reflection 1 Plus (Macintosh)
Reflection 2 (DEC VT320, VT220, VT102 emulators)
Reflection 2 Plus (Macintosh)
Reflection 3 Plus (Macintosh)
Reflection 4 (DEC VT241,VT320,VT340 Regis, Tek 4014
emulators)
Reflection 4 Plus (Macintosh)
Reflection 7 (HP2627A emulator)
Reflection 8 (3270 emulator)
Reflection-to-Go (HP 700/92 emu. for HP 95LX & 100LX
palmtop computers)
Current Version: -
Pricing :
DOS versions:
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Product one copy 2-10 copies
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Ref. 1 $299 $255 ea.
Ref. 2 $199 $170 ea.
Ref. 4 $299 $230 ea.
Ref. 7 $369 $315 ea.
Ref. 8 $269 $230 ea.
Ref. 8 w/TCP $369 $315 ea.
Ref.-to-Go $199 $170 ea.
Windows Versions:
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Product one copy 2-10 copies
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Ref. 1 $399 $340 ea.
Ref. 2 $299 $255 ea.
Ref. 4 $399 $340 ea.
Macintosh Versions:
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Product one copy 2-10 copies
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Ref. 1 Plus $299 $255 ea.
Ref. 2 Plus $249 $210 ea.
Ref. 3 Plus $399 $340 ea.
Ref. 4 Plus $369 $315 ea.
Reflection SDK for Windows - $2495
Additional pricing in Reflection Network Series (each is a single terminal
emulator with TCP/IP & Telnet for one session starting at $99)
Support : Free updates for 1yr.
Systems : DOS, MS-Windows 3.x & Macintosh Sys 7
Services : client: LAT, Telnet, NS/VT, FTP
Size :
Features : versatile command language
Supports Ethernet,Token-Ring
Supports NetBIOS & Berkeley Sockets, Winsock 1.1
Option for Netware, LAN Manager, Banyan VINES
Xwindows option
Z-16. Super-TCP: Fontier Technologies Corp.
Company : Frontier Technologies Corporation
Contact : Debbie Ramirez
Phone : (414) 241-4555 ext. 210
FAX : (414) 241-7084
Email : tcp@frontiertech.com
Postal mail : Frontier Technologies Corporation
10201 N. Port Washington Rd.
Mequon,
WI 53092
USA
Product : Super-TCP/NFS for Windows
Current Version: Version 3.00
Pricing : List Price: $495.00 with NFS,
$395.00 without NFS.
NetBIOS option - $295
LPD option - $395
PPP option - $95
ONC option - $695
X.25 option - $2495 (hardware inc.)
Developers toolkit - $695
Site licenses available. (call)
Support : 9am-6pm (EST), phone, email (Internet, Compuserve), bbs
Systems : 286 & above w/ 2 MB RAM MS-Windows 3.x, MSDOS 3.3 above
Services : Client: telnet (VT220, VT320, tn3270), nfs, ftp, tftp,
lpr, talk, nntp, pop 2/3, smtp (MIME extensions), bootp
rcp, rsh, rexec, ping
Server: nfs, ftp, tftp, talk, smtp, snmp, modem, optional
lpd
Size : Takes only 3K DOS RAM. 5MB free hard disk space needed.
Features : NDIS, ODI, ASI, PDS, SLIP, PPP (optional), X.25
(optional);
100% DLL in Windows or TSR for DOS;
Sun ONC RPC/XDR API; NetBIOS API; Windows Sockets API v1.1;
Coexists with NetWare, LAN Manager, Banyan Vines, DCA 10Net,
DECNET.
VxD Virutal Driver
Super-TCP has the first Windows Email with support for MIME
binary file attachments.
Z-17. TCP/IP for DOS: IBM
Company : IBM
Contact : Jeff Wheeler [Atlanta, US]
Phone : (800) IBM-CALL
(800) IBM-2YOU
FAX : (404) 238-1054
Email : -
Postal mail : IBM
Department G90
P.O. Box 12195,
Research Triangle Park,
NC 27709
USA
Product : IBM TCP/IP for DOS
Current Version: 2.1
Pricing :
Product Single License Additional License
TCP/IP for DOS Base $230 $200
TCP/IP for DOS NFS 135 120
TCP/IP for DOS NetBIOS 125 113
TCP/IP for DOS Programmers 550 500
Tool Kit
Support : Central Service, including the IBM Support Center, is
available. To report a problem, call IBM Software
Solutions Services at 1-800-992-4777.
Systems : MS-DOS 3.3+, MS-Windows 3.1
Services : clients: telnet (vt100,vt220), TN3270, TFTP, FTP,
NFS (optional), REXEC, RSH, LPR, SMTP, POP 2/3,
netstat, route, ifconfig, host, finger, ping,
servers: FTPD, LPD, SNMP
Size :
Base Kit: 2MB of protected memory, 8MB disk space
NFS Kit: 1MB of protected memory, 0.8MB disk space
NetBIOS Kit: 1MB of protected memory, 0.3MB disk space
Programmers 3.0MB disk space
Tool Kit
Features : supports Ethernet, Token-Ring, packet drivers (shim), NDIS,
SLIP
Cut & paste between windows.
Winsock V1.1 compliant.
SNMP agent provided for network management.
NFS(2) Kit:
Uses built-in DOS Network Drive Support
File and record locking
DOS-based
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NetBIOS Kit
RFC 1001/1002
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Programmer's Tool Kit
Berkeley Sockets 4.3
Sun's RPC with XDR
FTP API
DLLS: Windows Sockets API V1.1
FTP API DLL
Z-18. TCP/IP for OS/2: IBM
Company : IBM
Contact :
Phone : (800) IBM-CALL
(800) IBM-2YOU
FAX : (404) 238-1054
Email : -
Postal mail : IBM
Department G90
P.O. Box 12195,
Research Triangle Park,
NC 27709
USA
Product : IBM TCP/IP for OS/2
Current Version: 2.
Pricing :
Product Single License Additional License
TCP/IP for OS/2 Base $230 $107
TCP/IP for OS/2 NFS 140 56
TCP/IP for OS/2 NetBIOS 110 54
TCP/IP for OS/2 Domain Name
Server 495 245
TCP/IP for OS/2 DOS/Windows
Access 85 42
TCP/IP for OS/2 Extended
Networking Kit 195 96
TCP/IP for OS/2 X Window
System Server 195 96
TCP/IP for OS/2 X Window
System Client 195 96
TCP/IP for OS/2 OSF/Motif Kit 195 96
TCP/IP for OS/2 Applications 175 86
TCP/IP for OS/2 Programmers
Tool Kit 550 272
TCP/IP for OS/2 Total Kit 722 349
Support : Central Service, including the IBM Support Center, is
available. To report a problem, call IBM Software
Solutions Services at 1-800-992-4777.
Systems : OS/2 2.x
Services : clients: telnet (vt100,vt220), TN3270, TFTP, FTP,
NFS (optional), REXEC, RSH, LPR, SMTP, POP 2/3,
netstat, route, ifconfig, host, finger, ping,
servers: FTPD, LPD, SNMP
Size :
Functions DISK(mb)
----------- --------
Base 7.39
Pubs for Base 1.4
LAMail 1.9
IBM Library Reader 1.32
NFS 1.1
NFS TCP/IP CID Install 0.25
DOS Box Kit 0.56
WINSOCK Documentation 2.0
Extended Networking Kit 0.96
Programmers Toolkit 0.85
PMX Kit 11.36
X-Client Runtime Services 2.38
X-Client Programmers Toolkit 1.44
Domanin Name Server Kit 0.75
Communications Manager/2 for X.25 10.6
and SNALINK
OSF/Motif 1.79
Asia Pacific Kit 1.39
Features : supports Ethernet, Token-Ring, packet drivers (shim), NDIS,
SLIP, FDDI
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NFS Kit:
Provides the Network Files System(2) client and server, which
enable you to share drive resources across networks as if the
resources were local.
New in this release: file locking on NFS clients.
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Domain Name Server Kit:
Aids in the use and management of your network by allowing you
to assign symbolic names to internet addresses.
This is a new kit.
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DOS/Windows Accedd Kit:
Enables DOS applications written to the IBM TCP/IP Version 2.1
for DOS programming interfaces, and Windows(3) applications
written to the Windows Sockets API Version 1.0 or Version 1.1
specifications to run in an OS/2 virtual DOS machine on top of
TCP/IP Version 2.0 for OS/2.
This is a new kit.
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Extended Networking Kit:
Enables you to install and configure an X.25 or SNALINK interface.
New in this release: support for IP over SNA LU6.2.
Requires IBM Communications Manager 1.0 or higher.
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NetBIOS Kit:
Provides a TCP/IP transport layer for NetBIOS applications,
enabling NetBIOS applications to communicate over a TCP/IP
internet with native NetBIOS product.
NetBIOS applications are limited to a Local area network (LAN); but
with TCP/IP for OS/2, NetBIOS applications can communicate over
both a LAN and a WAN.
The NetBIOS installation process does not use the CID
architecture.
New in this release: compliance with RFC 1001/1002.
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Programmer's Tool Kit:
Provides routines for application programming in TCP/IP for
OS/2. These routines include sockets, RPCs, the File Transfer
Protocol (FTP) application programming interface (API), and the
Simple Network Management protocol (SNMP) distributed programming
interface.
New in this release: 32-bit API and enhancements fot SNMP.
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X Window System Server Kit:
Enables you to display and control X Window System(4) client appli-
cations in an OS/2 Presentation manager windowsed session.
Because the X Window System server uses OS/2 Presentation
Manager as the window manager, it supports all of the keyboard,
display, and pointer devices that are supported by OS/2
Presentation Manager.
New in this release: support for X11R5 and 32-bit applications.
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X Window System Client Kit:
Consists of two components: the X Window System Client Runtime
Services and the X Windows System Client Programmers Toolkit.
The Runtime Services provide the dynamic link libraries (DLLs)
that enable users to run X Window System applications on OS/2.
The Programmers Toolkit provides the standard X Window
System application programming interfaces (APIs) from MIT
Consortium that enable useres to create X Window System
applications for OS/2 ro to port X Window applications from other
platforms. The X Window System Client Programmers Toolkit
requires the TCP/IP Programmers Toolkit.
This is a new kit.
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OSF/Motif Kit:
Consists of two components: the OSF/Motif(5) Runtime Services
and the OSF/Motif Programmers Toolkit.
The Runtime Services provide the dynamic link libraries (DLLs)
that enable users to run OSF/Motif applications on OS/2. The
Programmers Toolkit provides the standard OSF/Motif widgets
and header files that enable users to create OSF/Motif applications
on OS/2. The OSF/Motif Kit requires the Xwindow Client Kit and
the Progrmmers Toolkit.
This is a new kit.
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Applications Kit:
Provides the TCP/IP for OS/2 applications included in the Base Kit
without the underlying TCP/IP protocol stack, allowing you to install
the functions of the Base TCP/IP Kit on a comparable stack.
This is a new kit.
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Total Kit:
TCP/IP for OS/2 also provides a Total Kit. which provides the most
often used functions of TCP/IP for OS/2. The Total Kit consists of
the Base Kit, the Network File System Kit, the Extended
Networking Kit, and the X Window System Server Kit.
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Z-19. TCPOpen : Lanera Corporation
Company : Lanera Corporatopm
Contact :
Phone : (408) 956-8344
FAX : (408) 956-8343
Email : lanera@netcom.com
Postal mail : Lanera Corp.
516 Valley Way,
Milpitas,
CA 95035
USA
Product : TCPOpen
Current Version: ??
Pricing :
Single-User License
===================
Product Code Software/Manuals Manuals Only
TCPOpen/Kernel TKER $ 95.00 $30.00
TCPOpen/Standard TOPN $145.00 $40.00
TCPOpen/Plus TPLU $195.00 $50.00
TCPOpen/SDK TSDK $295.00(see note) $50.00
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TCPOpen/Standard: TCPOpen/Kernel + TCP/IP applications + Softerm
TCPOpen/Plus: TCPOpen/Standard with NFS client module
TCPOpen/SDK: TCPOpen/Standard with Software Development Kit
Quantity Discount
-----------------
15% for quantity of 2 to 5
20% for quantity of 5 to 10
25% for quantity of 20 or more (site license is recommended).
University Discount
-------------------
25% discount
Site License
============
A site license allows for a specified number of copies to be made of the
software and corresponding manual for use on any system owned by the
purchaser. Only one copy of the software and the corresponding manual is
provided. Additional copies of the manual can be separately ordered at the
price shown above.
Site license requires a purchase of an updates and support policy.
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Quantity Per-User Pricing
Kernel Standard Plus
(TKER) (TOPN) (TPLU)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
10 - 49 $50.00 $70.00 $90.00
50 - 99 $40.00 $60.00 $80.00
100 - 499 $30.00 $50.00 $70.00
500 - 999 $20.00 $40.00 $60.00
1000+ $20.00 $30.00 $50.00
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Site License Expansion
----------------------
An existing site license can be expanded at a later time. The per-copy
cost of the additional license is based on the final total number of copies
at the time of expansion.
Support :
Free 90-day telephone support and unlimited fax/Internet E-mail support
for all single-user licenses. One-year update fee and unlimited telephone
support for single-user license is $100.00.
One year of unlimited telephone support and updates is at the cost of 20% of
the Site License purchase price.
Due to high cost of oversea support, International (single-user license)
users will receive direct support from local dealers/resellers unless the
purchase is made directly with Lanera or a support contract is purchased.
However, Internet E-mail support is always available to all users.
Systems : DOS, MS-Windows 3.x
Services :
NFS client Module: NFS v2 implementation, up to 15 drives.
TCP/IP: ftp client/server, TFTP client/server, telnet, rlogin, print
utilities, r-utilities (rsh, rexec, etc), finger, whois, remote
Tar, bootp
Softerm: vt (52, 100-series, 220/240, 320/340), IBM 3101 ,
IBM-ANSI, TN-3270, ANSI-terminal, kermit, Xmodem, Ymodem
Size : kernel : 72 KB (RAM)
Features : NDIS, Packet drivers, ODI drivers. SLIP
co-existence with Netware, LAN Manager, Workgroups,
Lantastic, Vines, InvisibleLAN
TCPOpen/SDK with Windows Sockets API 1.1 DLL available.
Z-20. TTCP: Turbosoft Pte Ltd.
Company : Turbosoft Pte Ltd
Contact : -
Phone : +61 2 552 1266 (Australia)
FAX : -
Email : info@abccomp.oz.au
Postal mail : Turbosoft
248 Johnston St.,
Annandale,
NSW 2038
Australia
Product : TTCP
Current Version: 1.2r2
Pricing :
Support :
Systems :
Services :
Size :
Features : supports Ethernet, Token-Ring, packet drivers, NDIS (shim),
ODI (shim)
Z-21. Trumpet WinApps : Peter Tattam
Company : -
Contact : Peter Tattam
Phone : -
FAX : -
Email : N/A
Postal mail : N/A
Product : WinApps for Trumpet Winsock
Current Version: Jan 1994
Pricing : free. FTP from:
ftp://ftp.utas.edu.au/trumpet/winsock/winapps.zip
Support : none.
Systems : MS-Windows 3.1 w/ Trumpet Winsock
Services : clients: telnet, ftp, ping, traceroute, talk, bsdtalk,
archie,
Size :
Features :
Z-22. WinQVT/Net: QPC Software
Company : QPC Software
Contact : -
Phone :
FAX : (716) 377-8305
Email : djp@troi.cc.rochester.edu
Postal mail :
Product : WinQVT/Net
Current Version: 3.93
Pricing : free
Support : none
Systems : MS-Windows 3.1
Services : VT (52, 100, 220), POP mail client, newsreader, FTP, FTPD
Size :
Features : uses packet drivers only
Z-23. Fusion : Pacific Softworks
Company : Pacific Softworks
Contact : Sales
Phone : (800)541-9508
FAX : (805)484-3929
Email : sales@nrc.com
cust-support@nrc.com
Postal mail : Pacific Softworks, Inc.
4000 Via Pescador,
Camarillo, CA 93012-5049
Product : FUSION for DOS
Current Version: 3.4
Pricing : Single prices
TCP/IP $349.00
TCP/IP w/IPX $399.00
IPX only $149.00
PDS option w/WINSOCK $200.00
PC-Xview & TN3270 also available
Multiple pricing (right to copy), 5 copies to 1,000+
PC/NFS ranging from $250 - $90 each
PDS/WINSOCK ranging from $495 - $195 each
PC-Xview & TN3270 also available
Support : Tech. phone line (805)484-1609, 90 days free tech. support
Univ. discount 33%
Systems : All AT-compatible PCs including 286, 386 and 486 systems
with minimum 4 MB of free hard disk space.
DOS 3.x-6.0, MS Windows 3.1
Services : clients: FTP, Telnet (vt 220), rcp, rlogin, rsh, rshd,
ruptime, rwho, NFS Client
servers: FTPD
Size : 136 KB Conventional memory, can be loaded into Upper memory
for most system configuration
4 MB hard disk space
Features : NDIS support on the following Ethernet Boards
3COM: 3C 501, 503, 505, 507, 509 and 523
Accton: EtherCoax- 8W EN1808, 8WB EN1818, NE2 EN1606
16N EN1603, HP EN1620
EtherPocket- CX/10T
EtherPair- 8W EN1807, 8WB EN1817, NE2 EN1605
16N EN1602, HP EN1619
Cabletron: E2020-X
Digital: EtherWORKS LC DE100, Turbo DE200, MC DE210
DE100, DE200 with ROM chip
D-Link: DE-100, DE-200, DE-300
Novell: NE 1000, NE 2000
Spider: Ethernet Card
Standard Micro: 8003, 8013
Western Digital: WD 8003E, 8003W/A, 8003E/A, 8013EBT,
WD 8003WT, WD8003ET/A, WD8013W
Xircom: Pocket Adapter PE108
Direct Board Drivers for Western Digital WD8003
Token Ring Boards supported: 3COM 3c603 Tokenlink
IPX co-existence
X Window terminal for DOS and MS Windows with PC-Xview
DOS PDS (Programmer's Development System) with Microsoft
and Borland compilers
Support of WINSOCK API with WINSOCK.DLL
Highly portable source code available
Z-24. PathWay Access for Macintosh : The Wollongong Group
Company : The Wollongong Group
Contact : George Stump & Marty Udiches
(gstump@twg.com & martyu@twg.com)
Phone : (415) 962-7202
(800) 962-8649 (California)
(800) 872-8649 (US)
+1 519 747-9900 (Canada)
+1 32-27-18-0311 (Europe)
FAX : (415) 962-0286 (US)
Email : sales@twg.com
Postal mail : The Wollongong Group, Inc.
1129 San Antonio Road
Palo Alto, CA 94303
USA
Product : PathWay Access & Client NFS [PathWay product line]
Current Version:
Pricing : Access for Macintosh - $295
Client NFS - $295
Support : call
Systems : Macintosh II series
Services : clients: telnet (vt 100, 200, 320, 330) IBM TN3270 (model 2
- 5), IBM 3179g, Tektronix 4010, FTP, mail,
newsreader, scripting language. NFS, LPR
servers: ftpd,
Size : -
Features : Supports Ethernet.
Z-25. ICE.TCP : James River Group
Company : James River Group, Inc.
Contact : -
Phone : (619) 339-2521
FAX :
Email : jriver@jriver.com
Postal mail : 125 N. First St.
Minneapolis,
MN 55401
Product : ICE/TCP
Current Version:
Pricing :
Support :
Systems :
Services : Telnet (Wyse60, ANSI), LPR, LPD
Size :
Features : works with Novell.
Z-26. Piper/IP IPswitch, Inc.
Company : IPswitch, Inc.
Contact : Bob MacFadgen
Phone : (617) 942-0621
FAX : (617) 246-2975
Email : bob@ipswitch.com
ub@ipswitch.com
Postal mail : 333 North Ave.
Wakefield
MA 01880
Product : Piper/IP for DOS & Windows,
Catipult Netware-TCP/IP gateway
Current Version: 1.0, 1.0, & 1.3 (respectively)
Pricing :
Piper/IP pricing
Part # Description Price
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
PIP-100 1 user TCP/IP DOS & Windows Pkg $375
& Piper/IP kernel
PIP-105 5 user " $1195
PIP-110 10 user " $1995
PIP-200 1 user kernel only $175
PIP-205 5 user kernel only $745
PIP-210 10 user kernel only $1225
PIP-310 Netbios option $85
PIP-320 NFS client and server for kernel opt. $99
Catipult line packages
Part # Description Price
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
CAT-100 30 user Netware-TCP/IP gateway $2975
CAT-145 45 user " $4275
CAT-160 60 user " $5375
CAT-315 15 user upgrade for gateway $1495
CAT-330 30 user " $2675
Site licensing
++++++++++++++
Users 20-49 50-99 100-249 250-499 500-999 1,000+
PIP-Sxxx (per user) $170 $150 $125 $105 $95 $89
PIP-SKxxx (per user) $87 $80 $69 $59 $54 $49
PIP-SBxxx (per user) $43 $39 $34 $29 $26 $23
PIP-SFxxx (per user) $49 $45 $39 $33 $30 $27
[xxx = kernel + apps; Kxxx = kernel only; Bxxx = Netbios option;
F = NFS option]
Pricing for additional copies for a site license is based on the aggregate
number of copies in the site license. The 12% annual support fee is prorated
so that support for all copies ends at the same time.
Developers Kit
--------------
IPS-200 Ipswitch developers kit w/ berkeley sockets for $475
Catipult, Vantage & Piper/IP. MS-C/C++ or Borland
Support : call.
Systems : Piper/IP: 80x86, 1.5 MB, DOS 3.1
Vantage/IP: any OS/2 capable system, 4MB (OS/2 1.x) 8MB(OS/2
2.x) & OS/2 1.x or 2.x.
Services : rlogin, telnet (vt102), tn3270, lpq, lpr, lprm,
rexec, rsh, rcp, ftp, tftp, pipernb &upipernb (netbios),
[chmod, ls, nfsmount, pnfs/upnfs, xomap] (NFS), ntpr,
ntprint, mt, rtpcp, tar, finger, whois, red (news), catmail,
pcmailer, fingerd, ftpd, nfsd, rexecd, routed, rshd, snmpd,
telnetd, tftpd, arp, ifconig, setclock, route, netstat,
nslookup, pink, tracetoute, ripquery, snmpd
Note: NFS client and server are a separate option
for Piper/IP.
Size : 6K in DOS (rest loadable high)
Features : works with Netware, LAN Manager, LAN Server, VINES.
one of the most complete list of applications I've seen.
Z-27.TCP/Connect II : Intercon, Inc.
Company : Intercon Systems Corp.
Contact : sales@intercon.com
Phone : (703) 709-5500
FAX : (703) 709-5555
Email : sales@intercon.com
Postal mail : 950 Herndon Pkwy,
Suite 420
Herndon,
VA 22070
USA
Product : TCP/Connect II
Current Version:
Pricing :
Support : First 90 days of support free;
Extended support may be purchased separately
Technical support: (703) 709-5520 or
tech@intercon.com
Systems : Macintosh II series, System 6.05 or later
Services : Telnet (vt 52,100,200), TN3270 ftp, ftpd, mail (smtp, pop2/3),
news, bootp
Size :
Features : Configurable sessions.
Z-28. TUN : Esker
Company : Esker
Contact : -
Phone : (800) 88-ESKER
(415) 341-9065
FAX :
Email :
Postal mail : ESKER
1181 Chess Drive,
Suite C,
Foster City, CA 94404
Product : TUN
Current Version: ??
Pricing : ??
Support : ??
Systems : ??
Services : clients: Telnet (15 emulations), FTP, Ping, RSH, REXEC, Tar,
POP/3, NFS,
server: LPD(?), Xserver )(option)
Size :
Features : Supports Winsock.
Support for Serial connections and Hayes command set
Supports Netware
Has Int14h and Int6Bh hooks.
Script language for terminals.
Supports terminal types: SCO ANSI, AT386, IBM 3151, IBM HFT,
VT52,VT100,VT220,Wyse50, Wyse60, DKU 7102. TM266, TO300,
Siemens 97801
Z-29. Vantage/IP IPswitch, Inc.
Company : IPswitch, Inc.
Contact : Bob MacFadgen
Phone : (617) 942-0621
FAX : (617) 246-2975
Email : bob@ipswitch.com
ub@ipswitch.com
Postal mail : 333 North Ave.
Wakefield
MA 01880
Product : Vantage/IP for OS/2
Current Version: 1.3
Pricing :
Part # Description Price
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
VAN-100 1 user kernel & apps for OS/2 $395
VAN-105 5 user " $1475
VAN-110 10 user " $2565
VAN-310 Netbios option $95
Site licensing
++++++++++++++
Users 20-49 50-99 100-249 250-499 500-999 1,000+
VAN-Sxxx (per user) $195 $175 $145 $120 $108 $99
VAN-SBxxx (per user) $50 $45 $39 $33 $30 $26
[xxx = kernel + apps; Bxxx = Netbios option]
Pricing for additional copies for a site license is based on the aggregate
number of copies in the site license. The 12% annual support fee is prorated
so that support for all copies ends at the same time.
Developers Kit
--------------
IPS-200 Ipswitch developers kit w/ berkeley sockets for $475
Catipult, Vantage & Piper/IP. MS-C/C++ or Borland
Support : call.
Systems : any OS/2 capable system, 4MB (OS/2 1.x) 8MB(OS/2
2.x) & OS/2 1.x or 2.x.
Services : rlogin, telnet (vt102), tn3270, lpq, lpr, lprm,
rexec, rsh, rcp, ftp, tftp, pipernb & upipernb (netbios),
[chmod, ls, nfsmount, pnfs/upnfs, xomap] (NFS), ntpr,
ntprint, mt, rtpcp, tar, finger, whois, red (news), catmail,
pcmailer, fingerd, ftpd, nfsd, rexecd, routed, rshd, snmpd,
telnetd, tftpd, arp, ifconig, setclock, route, netstat,
nslookup, pink, tracetoute, ripquery, snmpd, talk, otalk,
mail, reposito, popper, nfs, nfsd
Size : 6K in DOS (rest loadable high)
Features : works with Netware, LAN Manager, LAN Server, VINES.
one of the most complete list of applications I've seen.
Z-30. Lantastic Artisoft, Inc.
Company : Artisoft, Inc.
Contact : -
Phone : (800) TINY-RAM
(602) 293-6363
FAX :
Email :
Postal mail : 691 E. River Road,
Tucson, AZ 85704
Product : Lantastic w/ TCP/IP
Current Version:
Pricing :
Support :
Systems : MSDOS 5.0
Services : clients: telnet, ftp, ping, lpr, lprm, lpq, tn3270, rcp,
rsh, finger, nfs
servers: ftpd, snmpd
Size :
Features :
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