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From: weber_w@apollo.HP.COM (Walt Weber)
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Subject: Re: SYS5 and TCP/IP
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Date: 6 Dec 90 16:28:00 GMT
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In article <9012050023.AA27474@umix.cc.umich.edu>,
SRFERGU%ERENJ@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU (Scott Ferguson) writes:
|> 
|> All that aside, the system is installed with Aegis 9.7.5, and SYS5
Domain/IX,
|> not BSD4.2.
|> 
|> He's got ethernet connections, and wants to do simple telnet and ftp to
|> some other systems, but SYS5 doesn't appear to have things like telnet,
|> telnetd, or other things. The release tape for TCP_BSD rev 3.1 has a minimal
|> amount of stuff, not including telnet and telnetd, or inetd.

TCP/IP was sold as a separate product on pre-sr10 releases; the tcp_bsd
you have
is to allow line printer services (which require ip) to work under
Domain/IX bsd4.2 .
(Ah, nostalgia.....).

|> Is there a TCP product for SYS5 Domain/IX? I know, our favorite company
|> probably wouldn't ship me anything anyway, but scr## them anyway.

ouch.

|> What can I do, short of installing BSD4.2 on his system? I'd also prefer
|> not to use the Aegis kludge of TCP, I've finally cured myself of that
mistake.

Make certain that you have a /sys/tcp directory on the node -- if not,
you don't have
the tcp/ip layered product and will need to get it installed.  You will
STILL need
the bsd4.2 environment installed, since the clients and servers will
have a bsd4.2
systype, and will look under /bsd4.2 for things like hosts and
hosts.equiv files,
etc.  The SYS5 environment didn't get it's "own" tcp/ip support until sr10.

|> Thanks,

you're welcome.

|> Scott Ferguson
|> srfergu@erenj.bitnet

...walt...

Walt Weber                           Hewlett Packard Response Center
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 But they didn't. But pads still aren't terminals.  -Kee Hinckley"