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From: mark@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Mark Goodwin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: bsd4.3
Keywords: unix
Message-ID: <2645@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU>
Date: 11 Jul 90 12:15:22 GMT
Organization: Monash Uni. Computer Science, Australia
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Please forgive if the following is well known :-
I have a DN3000 and a DN580-T presently running 9.7.

The Apollo ring is gateway'ed via the DN3000 to several
local ethernet subnets of Sun, DEC and Pyramid machines,
all supporting BSD4.3 TCP services. The ring gateway is on an
Ultrix 3.1 dominated subnet.

Whilst the Apollos are running BSD4.3, it's with Aegis which has
a typed file system (surprise!); and NFS doesn't work for anything
but plain files and directories. I suppose our Apollos must be the
only ones left in the world still running 9.7. Woe is me.

Questions.
Does the latest Apollo/HP SR10 BSD4.3 version:

 a) have "standard/compatible" BSD4.3 sockets, file system and kernel,
    (please no standards debates!)
 b) does NFS work transparently for local/remote file systems,
 c) how are accounts administered - still edrgy et al? ACLs?
 d) can BSD4.3 be installed without any Aegis "extras" whatsoever, and
 e) do gcc and X11R4 compile with no more than the usual mucking around?

Does TCP use netsvc on the ring subnet?
What are the transport level configuration options?

Thanks for any info:-
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Regards, my opinions are my own.
Mark Goodwin.