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From: karn@faline.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: TCP/IP on minix
Message-ID: <372@faline.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Feb-87 15:28:35 EST
Article-I.D.: faline.372
Posted: Fri Feb 27 15:28:35 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 1-Mar-87 14:47:03 EST
References: <1036@wang7.UUCP>
Organization: Bell Communications Research, Inc
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Keywords: tcp ip minix
Summary: I am

> Now that several of us are working on uucp, who is working on TCP/IP?

I have written a TCP/IP from scratch in C for MS-DOS which I and many
others are now running. Besides fullblown TCP and IP/ICMP, it contains
SLIP, ARP, Ethernet and AX.25 (amateur packet radio) link drivers, UDP, and
clients and servers for SMTP, FTP and Telnet. At present routing tables
are manually controlled, and there is no domain support (you need to specify
IP addresses).

Since I was more interested in writing protocol code than in reinventing
another toy operating system, I structured the code as a big commutator
loop with extensive use of upcalls. I was pleasantly surprised to see
how far I got with this approach, but I was also hoping that something
just like MINIX might come along. However I'm in a holding pattern until
I am able to get the MINIX source.

I did this work specifically for amateur packet radio, but I'm willing
to kick it out into the MINIX community for noncommercial use.  Copies
of the current MS-DOS version can be found on louie.udel.edu (10.0.0.96)
as /pub/net*.cpio.Z.

Phil