Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!sce!xicom!alex
From: alex@xicom.UUCP (Alex Laney)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: RPC Library sources for System V
Summary: I may have missed 4.0, has it been posted?
Message-ID: <120@xicom.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jun 89 02:21:39 GMT
References: <8906141633.AA01919@sunned.sun.com>
Organization: XICOM Ottawa,Ont. Canada
Lines: 50

In article <8906141633.AA01919@sunned.sun.com>, warrens@SUN.COM (Warren Smith) writes:

When I hear the acronym NFS, I immediately think Sun's NFS running on a
TCP-IP Ethernet. And that is based on RPC.

> It sounds like you did not get the RPC from Interactive.  Why not?
> Don't they supply it external to NFS?

I haven't bought NFS either. I got their TCP-IP as part of being a
registered Independent Software Vendor, and developing for their X-11
Windowing System. Interactive's X depended on TCP-IP libraries for their
Alpha release. 

We here at Xicom are in a really early stage of investigating available
TCP-IP packages for System V/386 systems and LANs. I looked at RPC, because
I was given a manual for Netwise, Inc.'s NETWISE product. This is similar
in function to Sun RPC, but is somewhat more high-level. You can port
Netwise's product to any Network by describing a RPC specification
(describing procedures to make a call to a remote procedure) and split
your application across a network. It doesn't assume any specific type
of network library. They do sell pre-configured versions however.

Anyways, my point really was that I had seen an Interactive brochure that
listed RPC as part of THEIR NFS product. I stand corrected if I recall
                      ^^^^^
this incorrectly. (A lot of brochures go by my desk)

> You are welcome to share any changes that you make to RPCSRC for
> creating a reference version for Interactive's socket interface.
> Just leave the copyright notices intact, so that others are also
> allowed "freely licensed" access to the code you send out.  

I wasn't really planning to release anything. If we support Interactive's
TCP-IP/NFS/RPC, then we will have to buy it from them. It's the price of
admission. I'm quite willing to share my experiences with anyone, but it
hasn't been that serious a study so far.

> By the way, there is a RPCSRC 4.0 available in the sun-spots newsgroup
> at Rice University.  It was supposed to have made it into comp.sources
> last March, but I am not sure if it has actually gotten out yet.  This
> release contains Secure RPC, which has an improved authentication
> mechanism.  It also assumes a 4.3BSD base.

My news feed was missing for most of April and May, so I may have missed
Sun RPC 4.0. Anyone know for certain if it has been posted?

-- 
Alex Laney, Xicom Technologies Corp., Ottawa, Canada (613) 728-9099
uunet!mitel!sce!xicom!alex (NOT alex@xicom)     Fax: (613) 728-1134
"You save time, increase the amount of work done and it is easy."