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From: buck@siswat.UUCP (A. Lester Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.protocols.iso
Subject: AT&T papers on network interfaces
Keywords: STREAMS TLI TPI LLI DLPI
Message-ID: <510@siswat.UUCP>
Date: 13 Mar 90 03:16:14 GMT
Organization: Photon Graphics,  Houston
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I am starting some work with the Portable Streams Environment from Mentat,
and was reading the release notes for Interactive Systems' reference port
to 386/ix.  It contained the following information:

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There are several papers available from AT&T which describe the TPI, LLI
and DLPI interfaces.  These documents are under copyright protection of
AT&T but are distributed by them directly upon request.  The following
is a list of these papers:

1)	"A STREAMS-based Data Link Provider Interface - Version 1.2," authored
	by R.J. Lewis, J.K. Fellin, and D.J. Olander.  This is the definition
	of DLPI, which is a superset of the LLI definition.

2)	"Logical Link Interface: A Proposed Service Interface - Issue 1,"
	authored by G.J. McGrath, T.L. Hytry, and J.H. Singh.  This is the
	definition of LLI.

3)	"The UNIX Transport Specification - Issue 2," authored by G.J. McGrath
	and D.J. Olander.  This is everything you ever want to know about TLI,
	TPI, and more.  In particular, Appendix 2 of this document is the
	definition of TPI.
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Interactive PSE tech support is looking into where to call to obtain these
papers, but I was interested in knowing independently of ISC.  Does anyone
know where to obtain these documents?  And does AT&T have a list of available
technical papers such as the above?

BTW, I tried to order the SVR4 networking manuals today, but Prentice Hall
told me they were not yet available.  But I know I saw the books for sale at
Usenix and Uniform in January.  Were those pre-release copies, or are these
manuals available for sale anywhere now?

Thanks alot!

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A. Lester Buck     buck@siswat.lonestar.org  ...!texbell!moray!siswat!buck