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From: wunder@hp-ses.SDE.HP.COM (Walter Underwood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: SLIP source wanted for HP9000/340
Message-ID: <920061@hp-ses.SDE.HP.COM>
Date: 12 Jun 90 17:53:40 GMT
References: <1990Jun1.074348.7712@ecn.nl>
Organization: HP SW Engineering Systems - Sunnyvale, CA
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SLIP has been tried in earlier HP-UX kernels (pre-8.0), and it is a
mess.  Networking in pre-8.0 kernels is a re-written 4.2 for the s800,
and (I think) something different for s300.  It is not a pretty sight.

The decision was to put off SLIP until the networking code was shot
and replaced.  Putting a lot of effort into the old stuff for one
release was just not a good investment.  HP did put the VJ TCP
algorithms into 7.0.

HP-UX 8.0 networking is all-new code based on 4.3-Tahoe.  It is more
reliable, more configurable, all that stuff.

Walter "not in a networking division" Underwood