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From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
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Subject: Re: TCP/IP Users Guide?  (actually STREAMS vs. sockets)
Summary: "modern" is a matter of debate
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Date: 27 Mar 91 20:58:53 GMT
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> > for information on communicating across the network from within a program.
> ...
> You should also look at the Streams mechanism if you are starting from
> scratch, it might be appropriate to use the "modern" methods.


Well, STREAMS won't help much with Silicon Graphics TCP/IP since IRIX is
currently and in the forthcoming release firmly socketed.

All of the systems with TLI or XLI or whatever seem to have a "socket
compatibility mode" that gets between very and vaguely close to 4.3BSD
sockets.  However, few systems with real sockets deign to have anything to
do with STREAMS TCP.  That may change with SVR4, but only if SVR4 XLI turns
out to be as fast as sockets.



Vernon Schryver,   vjs@sgi.com