Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!gatech!udel!rminnich
From: rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: DNET- or, Matt has done it again!
Message-ID: <1122@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 8 Feb 88 22:15:29 GMT
Reply-To: rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich)
Organization: University of Delaware
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First impressions of DNET.

      *****    GEE, THIS IS GREAT!    *****
hmm, i blew all that time on internet.device and then matt 
comes out with this thing ... it just isn't fair. 

   First off, it works. Second off, it requires no kernel hacks,
yet also appears to be pretty efficient. Although there does seem
to be a slightly longer echo loop it is not real bad even at 9600,
at least i don't think. But the real amazing thing is how well file transfer
works. Beautifully. and fast, as fast as tcp/ip over SLIP. I am 
impressed. 
   There is only one slight caveat. In moving from TCP to DNET 
you are moving from a very standard protocol which runs on lots
of different OSs to one which is 4.xbsd specific. On the other 
hand you could probably move dnet to many different machines. 
I think i may drop internet.device and move over to dnet (but am
not sure yet). No matter what, DNET is quite a piece of work.
Makes me wonder why i bought a C compiler!
   Highly recommended for a test-drive at least!
ron
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ron (rminnich@udel.edu)