Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcrware!kim
From: kim@mcrware.UUCP (Kim Kempf)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: Internet Support Package
Message-ID: <1289@mcrware.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jul 89 14:37:28 GMT
References: <533@materna.uucp>
Reply-To: kim@mcrware.UUCP (Kim Kempf)
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa
Lines: 28

In article <533@materna.uucp< jh@materna.UUCP (Juergen Hackenbroich) writes:
<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

Outgoing broadcast does not work in V1.0 of ISP.  This has been fixed
in V1.1 which has just been released last month.  Subnets (and subnet
broadcasting) are not supported but are expected to be in a future release.

<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.
<

Your system should be capable of successfully running 'tsmon' and supporting
terminal login.  'ftpd' expects that the configuration is a professional
system configured for multiuser timesharing: (i.e. tsmon/login present,
password file and SYS directory present).

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

Soon.
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Kim Kempf, Microware Systems Corporation	{sun,uunet}!mcrware!kim