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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.att
Subject: NPACK protocol
Message-ID: <242@pyuxe.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-Apr-87 15:04:39 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 10 15:04:39 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 21:26:00 EST
Organization: Bell Communications Research
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Keywords: STREAMS, NPACK
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Recently AT&T announced  UNIX Release 3.1.  They also
announced a seperate product known as NPACK.

The 1/2 page announcement of NPACK states that it is a 
STREAMS based product that contains an Ethernet
media driver for the 3B2 3BNET hardware
and a NPACK STREAMS protocol module.

The announcement goes on to say that NPACK has
not been implemented as a standerd.  It is a technology
model for protocol and driver package development under
STREAMS.  It is not a complete runable program as other
products are.  It comes in source format.
No documentation is included.

I called up AT&T licensing (1-800-828-UNIX) to
request additional information, the only additional
information that they could give me was a list
of the source files supplied with the tape.

Can anuone give me a better description of
NPACK?  Does RFS run over it?  Is
it writtten to interface to the AT&T Transport provider?
Dose it provied connection/connectionless oriented service?
What levels of the ISO protocol model does it correspond to? 
Any word on performance?

The information that AT&T has provided just isn't enough
to justify the purchase of this product ($5,000).
If it could support RFS and uucp on SYSV 3.0/3.1,
it might be attractive since the binary sublicensing fees 
are resonable ($5,000 one time + $10 per copy).

Any information would be appreciated.

Peyton Yanchurak
Bellcore			Bell Communications Research
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