Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!bionet!arisia!roo!chamomile!akhale
From: akhale@chamomile.uucp (Abhijit Khale)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: netblt
Message-ID: <465@roo.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jun 90 08:46:30 GMT
References: <STEVEB.90Jun29114755@ceawlin.cs.odu.edu>
Sender: news@parc.xerox.com
Reply-To: akhale@chamomile.parc.xerox.com (Abhijit Khale)
Organization: Computer Science Lab, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
Lines: 16

In article <STEVEB.90Jun29114755@ceawlin.cs.odu.edu> steveb@cs.odu.edu (Steve Baylon) writes:
>Hi!  I was wondering if any of you wizards have any experince with
>netblt.  It is supposedly somthing like ftp.  
>

Netblt ( if we are thinking about the same animal :-) ) is not "like" ftp. Its a transport
protocol meant for use in high speed networks. It uses rate based flow control
rather than the window based flow control used in TCP, TP4 etc. 

Further Information about netblt can be obtained from RFC 998 and RFC 1030. SIGCOMM'87
also has an article on netblt. Implementations of netblt for an IBM-PC and for a
UNIX system ( using raw sockets) should also be publicly available from allspice.lcs.mit.edu


Abhijit 
akhale@parc.xerox.com