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From: harish@guille.ece.orst.edu (Harish Pillay)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: What is KA9Q ?
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Date: 20 Dec 89 03:11:38 GMT
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In article <424@yarra.oz.au> chris@yarra.oz.au (Chris Jankowski) writes:
|There are references to KA9Q scattered in articles of this group.
|Can somebody tell me what it is, please?
|Thanks.
|
|      -m-------   Chris Jankowski - Senior Systems Engineer chris@yarra.oz{.au}
|    ---mmm-----   Pyramid Technology Corporation Pty. Ltd.  fax  +61 3 820 0536
|  -----mmmmm---   11th Floor, 14 Queens Road                tel. +61 3 820 0711
|-------mmmmmmm-   Melbourne, Victoria, 3004       AUSTRALIA       (03) 820 0711
|
|``If you're crossing the nation in a covered wagon, it's better to have four
|  strong oxen than 100 chickens.  Chickens are OK but we can't make them work 
|  together yet.'' - Ross Bott, Pyramid U.S., on multiprocessors at AUUGM '89.

KA9Q is a TCP/IP suite of protocols that was written by Phil Karn et al who 
did it specifically for Amateur Packet Radio.  It has been enhanced to be
able to support regular ethernet cards via the packet driver by Russ Nelson
from Clarkson U.  IMHO, it is a well written piece of networking software
that supports telnet, ping, arp, finger, smtp, routing, and ftp.  It is
available via anonymous ftp from flash.bellcore.com [128.96.32.20].

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Harish Pillay                        harish@ece.orst.edu
Oregon State University