Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!exodus!page From: page@Eng.Sun.COM (Bob Page) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Are sockets the wave of the future? Message-ID: Date: 26 Aug 90 23:10:24 GMT References: <9008242107.AA19843@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1990Aug25.183437.1@rogue.llnl.gov> Sender: news@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View CA Lines: 29 In-reply-to: oberman@rogue.llnl.gov's message of 26 Aug 90 01:34:37 GMT > Sun RPC is propriatary What does proprietary mean to you? The RPC/XDR specs have been published for some time as RFCs 1057 (RPC) and 1014 (XDR). RPC/XDR source code (from Sun) is available for ftp from many places, like titan.rice.edu. A freely redistributable NFS implementation was built (not by Sun, but by members of the Internet community) on top of the RPC/XDR source code. Some vendors have products based on the source. > We've already seen a bit of this attitude in the Sun network management > software. It supports access only by RPC, not SNMP. Whoa -- Reality check. Last October at Interop '89, a Sun workstation running SunNet Manager was in the ACE (now Interop Inc) booth monitoring _all_ the network gateways (cisco, SynOptics, Proteon, etc). A number of vendors (SynOptics, Cabletron, Network General, Xyplex, and more) were running SunNet Manager in their respective booths to show how they interoperated with the product. The package was also running in the show's SNMP Interoperability booth. All this communication was done via SNMP, not RPC. > Disclaimer: Don't take this too seriously. I just like to improve my typing > and probably don't really know anything useful about anything. Sounds like good advice. ..bob -- Bob Page Sun Microsystems, Inc. page@eng.sun.com