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From: markv@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: A Question and a Thought (RemTask() and File servers)
Message-ID: <28396.27aee206@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 91 22:49:10 GMT
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>>Second, I've been working on an idea for a real simple Amiga only disk
>>sharing via network....

> This sounds like our PARNET and SERNET programs.  They've been available
> for quite awhile now.  Works over the parallel/serial port respectively.
> Transport layer is DNET for the serial, and parnet.device for the
> parallel.  (Thanks Matt)

Tell me more.  I've never used DNET because the realy use for me would
be to VMS or PC Compatible host.  But sounds good.  Then all one would
have to do is write a Transport layer for Ethernet (not too hard).
Now if only I could find out more about this SANA stuff....(hint,
hint).

Now if we could only get some sort of Amiga standard for layer to
layer protocols, so we could do things like this compatibly....

App+Session
 Layers:	KA9Q 	Telnet	Domain/Other	Novell		Etc...
		 | \---\  |    /		  |		  |
Network Layer:	X.25	TCP/UDP			IPX		Other
		|       /     \---------------\   | /-----------/ |
Link Layer:	 \   SLIP               802.x "Packet" Driver     |
                   \  |      			  |		  |
Pysical:         serialx.device		  ethernet.device    xxx.device

This may seem a bit extreme, but isn't far fetched.  Heck, on my DOS PC at
work (with x.25 and Ethernet cards) I can run a telnet<-->X.25<->SLIP
gateway togather with Novell, so that my software can access file
servers, plus we run a special ICMP type protocol (but as top layer so
it doesn't conflict with other TCP/IP stuff like NCSA Telnet) for
smart polling, timing, etc.  (Also, please no arguments over my
quickie OSI diagram, esp TCP/IP on top of it...thats a whole different
can of worms).
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