Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ucbvax!AI.AI.MIT.EDU!PAP4 From: PAP4@AI.AI.MIT.EDU ("Philip A. Prindeville") Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: TCP/IP Versus WANG, ARCNET/NOVELL Netware, & Honeywell Message-ID: <315722.880124.PAP4@AI.AI.MIT.EDU> Date: 25 Jan 88 03:54:31 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 41 Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1988 19:05 MST Cc: tcp-ip@sri-nic.arpa From: Keith Petersen [ ... ] The files above are the CMU PCIP package. In addition to those you will need the ARCNET-specific files (be careful when extracting as some member filenames are the same as those in other ARCs). Filename Type Bytes CRC Directory PD1: ARCNET.ARC.1 BINARY 19889 4B5CH ARCNET-RFC.TXT.1 ASCII 5622 E04CH CUSTOM.ARC.1 BINARY 16061 8391H INCLUDE.ARC.1 BINARY 9294 7B81H INTERNET.ARC.1 BINARY 17017 A921H I will take this chance to clarify a few things (my fault: I was too lazy to write a README). The ".ARC" extension means ARChive, the format the files are grouped as; previous users of SIMTEL20 will recognize this. The first two files above are the device driver for an ARCnet interface (PDI, DATAPOINT, or SMC) and the accompanying RFC that describes IP over ARCNET. CUSTOM includes some generic modifications to support memory (not IO) mapped devices (which ARCNET IFs tend to be). INCLUDE and INTERNET are changes to the standard distribution that offer increased functionality to IP and ICMP -- some of that functionality was required to support ARCNET, but is not ARCNET specific. For instance, fragmentation/reassembly had to be added to get decent performance out of ARCNET, but will work equally well with pronet, ethernet, and token ring. The files in INCLUDE, INTERNET, and CUSTOM are meant to replace their counterparts in the CMU distribution in \INCLUDE, \SRCLIB\INTERNET, and \SRCCMD\CUSTOM respectively. You may want to back up these files before replacing them. Enjoy, -Philip