Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!materna!jh
From: jh@materna.uucp (Juergen Hackenbroich)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Internet Support Package
Message-ID: <533@materna.uucp>
Date: 13 Jul 89 07:49:19 GMT
Reply-To: jh@materna.UUCP (Juergen Hackenbroich)
Organization: Dr.Materna GmbH, Dortmund
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Hallo OS-9 Users,

we are using the internet support package and there are some problems.

1. We wanted to implement rwho etc. but for this we must access the
   broadcast address. This does not seem to work, as we don't get
   any packet from a broadcast address. Even opening the socket with
   the broadcast address itself does not help.
   But using a modified version on beam, we get the packets, but only
   when sent under normal address, not broadcast.
2. FTP complains about missing modules when you are coming from an extern
   machine. So it is impossible to ftp to our machine. Ftp from our
   machine to remote hosts is possible.

Finally a question:
Are rlogin and rsh/rcp soon to come or is it worth to implement
them ourselves ?

Thanks for any good answer

hacki

PS: The package seems to run fine with a good performance, but we will
try some test...
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