Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!uunet!mcsun!ukc!cam-cl!news From: nbvs@cl.cam.ac.uk (Nicko van Someren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: NFS file system Keywords: r140 ethernet Message-ID: <1991May2.182852.9561@cl.cam.ac.uk> Date: 2 May 91 18:28:52 GMT References: <1991Apr27.113342.2972@cl.cam.ac.uk> <1991May1.140440.5606@trl.oz.au> Reply-To: nbvs@cl.cam.ac.uk (Nicko van Someren) Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK Lines: 32 In article <1991May1.140440.5606@trl.oz.au> kirkham@shiva.trl.oz (Daniel Kirkham) writes: >In article <1991Apr27.113342.2972@cl.cam.ac.uk> nbvs@cl.cam.ac.uk (Nicko van Someren) writes: >> You go out and buy a copy of the RISC OS TCP/IP kit which >>includes telnet, a VT220 emulator and Archi. NFS. > >Is this product limited to use with the ethernet card, or does it support >other types of interfaces? For instance, is it possible to supply another >packet driver which turns the serial (RS423) port into a SLIP or Asynch PPP >interface? Obviously NFS is not a viable proposition on such a link, but >telnet, using TCP with header compression (a la CSLIP) would be useful. > >Perhaps someone could let the group know what is in the kit. I'd certainly >like to know the part number so I can ask the Acorn reps here for a local >price. The Acorn port of TCP/IP is a pretty direct port of the UCB original as used in RISCiX. They have made little effort to make it support other hardware and no effort to make it modular. The software that is shipping works over Ethernet and over Econet but nothing else, it is hard wired to work on Acorn's ethernet cards and will not support cards from other people. Maybe if we give them enough gyp here they will modularise it and then we can add serial and other types of connection. The kit has NFS, telnet, a VT220 emulator and a bunch of other utilities. There is also a TCP/IP programmers kit now on the pricelist but I have not seen it yet. I hear it gives UNIX like set of header files for sockets etc. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Nicko van Someren, nbvs@cl.cam.ac.uk, (44) 223 358707 or (44) 860 498903 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+