Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!rminnich
From: rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DNET And Our Serial Device
Message-ID: <6527@super.ORG>
Date: 28 Feb 89 17:16:33 GMT
References: <518@madnix.UUCP>
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Reply-To: rminnich@brainiac.UUCP (Ronald G Minnich)
Organization: Supercomputing Research Center, Lanham, Md.
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In article <518@madnix.UUCP> perry@madnix.UUCP (Perry Kivolowitz) writes:
>We'd  like  to  see  someone add a ``repeater'' capability so that a simple
>star or point-to-point many host network can be achieved.
I don't get this. I like dnet a lot, use it all the time, and so on. 
But adding e-mail clients/servers to DNET? try to turn it into a general 
protocol stack? Use it to hook up lots of amigas in an office? 
   Why on earth when we have all the free tcp/ip implementations
available, with host name resolution/packet forwarding/error handling
and all those other ugly issues resolved? DNET is terrific for going 
from an amiga to some host and getting a nice IO mux. I use it exclusively
from my home. DNET does not make sense as a general purpose networking 
system, unless you want to add lots of changes. Then the amiga has a
protocol with total incompatibility with the universe. Just what we need,
another point of difference. 
   At some point it looked like Ameristar was gonna release SLIP 
support, but i guess it never came to pass? Rick? (hmmm, Rick may be
over in Next-land by now ...)
   In any event, if ASDG is going to put time and effort into putting
good networking software out using their serial card, i hope they pick
the standard which buys interoperability (horrible buzz word, good intent)
with all the other networks that are out there. 
ron