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From: daveb@gonzo.UUCP (Dave Brower)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Inter-machine networking on System V
Summary: Speaking of vaporware, try /dev/tivc.
Message-ID: <501@gonzo.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 89 04:52:00 GMT
References: <446@thirdi.UUCP> <11181@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Reply-To: daveb@gonzo.UUCP (Dave Brower)
Organization: Gonzo Media Group
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In <11181@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell) writes:
>In article <446@thirdi.UUCP> scott@thirdi.UUCP (Scott Southard) writes:
>
>>Does the STREAMS interface currently support any networking
>>protocols at all?
>
>I'm not sure what your question is. STREAMS is a set of mechanisms
>and abstractions on top of which you can implement networking
>protocols such as TCP/IP, X.25, OSI, etc.
>
>The Transport Level Interface (TLI) library (The t_* routines you mention)
>provides a higher level interface to STREAMS, at the OSI Transport
>level.
>A couple of vendors have implemented TCP/IP, X.25 and other protocols
>on top of TLI, but all you get with SVR3.x is STREAMS and TLI.

One of the things I *really* like if the Network Programmer's Guide that
comes with SVR3, which prominantly features a streams device /dev/tivc
in the example code.  Unfortunately, such a device does not in fact
exist.  This means you can't even write toy TLI programs without adding
your own drivers.

(Actually, a /dev/spx "stream pipe" sometimes exists, but it is
undocumented and unsupported, I think.  It also isn't bidirectional,
which is annoying).

Does anyone have have stream driver for bidirectional local connections
they'd like to submit to comp.sources.unix?

-dB
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