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From: markv@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: TCP/IP FTP
Message-ID: <27975.2795d933@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 17 Jan 91 23:04:50 GMT
References: <1991Jan15.153348.21189@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <17618@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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> When connecting to ab20.larc.nasa.gov, you will either have to use the
> internet number or enter the correct number in your Amiga's host table.
> The reason for this is that the current TCP/IP software does not include
> name service software.

I don't have Amiga TCP/IP, but from what I have read so far I can see
some problems.  No name server support?  That's pretty brain dead, I'm
typing on NCSA telnet which can talk to nameservers, and its free!
I've also coded nameserver support in the X.25<->Telnet gateway I
wrote.  It isn't too hard.

Another gripe about the Commodore Ethernet is you need a different card for
each protocol run at the same time.  On a lowley **single-tasking** PC
I can share an Ethernet card with several protocols via a packet driver
which demuxes packets for different handles based on the DL layer type
field (It can handle Type 2 or 802.e).  This a common supported PC
standard.  The NCSA Telnet I am running is off of a Novell file
server, and I can shell out to a LAT terminal from Telnet if I want
to, etc.

For now,

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