Re: [TUHS] System III - TCP/IP

Any ideas if any of this would work on Sys III for VAX? (Or the technically opened PDP-11 that includes VAX) Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 7, 2015, at 11:20, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote: > > So this seems pretty tough, 16 bit machine and all. If you were to get > it to work it would probably be with Lachman's STREAMS based TCP/IP. > No idea if that was open sourced. > >> On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 08:03:58PM +0100, Oliver Lehmann wrote: >> Hi, >> >> i have an old Z8001 based SysIII variant and I would love to have >> TCP/IP on it (SLIP first, later with a homebrew ethernet device). >> >> I wonder if someone ever saw TCP/IP available on a System III? >> >> I have lets say 90% of the kernel running on it as source >> available and I started digging in the available 4.2 BSD sources. >> >> It looks like there would be much to do to hack in TCP/IP on my >> own (no IPC, no Net, no PTY, no....). >> >> I got K5JB running (userland TCP/IP implementation) after I fixed >> some C code because the C Compiler available on the system is..... >> kinda limited. >> >> telnetd is of course not working as there are no pseudo-teletypes >> on this SYSIII. At least I got ping, echoping and ftpd up and >> running via SLIP >> >> (10.1.1.2 is my SysIII box:) >> >> # ping -c3 10.1.1.2 >> PING 10.1.1.2 (10.1.1.2): 56 data bytes >> 64 bytes from 10.1.1.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=254 time=316.317 ms >> 64 bytes from 10.1.1.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=254 time=297.328 ms >> 64 bytes from 10.1.1.2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=254 time=296.369 ms >> >> --- 10.1.1.2 ping statistics --- >> 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss >> round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 296.369/303.338/316.317/9.186 ms >> # ftp 10.1.1.2 >> Connected to 10.1.1.2. >> 220 FTP version K5JB.k37 ready at Tue Apr 30 22:25:47 1991 >> Name (10.1.1.2:root): test >> 331 Enter PASS command >> Password: >> 230 Logged in >> ftp> get sa.timer >> local: sa.timer remote: sa.timer >> 500 Unknown command >> 500 Unknown command >> 200 Port command okay >> 150 Opening data connection for RETR sa.timer >> 2571 0.53 KB/s >> 226 File sent OK >> 2571 bytes received in 00:05 (0.48 KB/s) >> ftp> get wega >> local: wega remote: wega >> 200 Port command okay >> 150 Opening data connection for RETR wega >> 98723 0.51 KB/s >> 226 File sent OK >> 98723 bytes received in 03:05 (0.51 KB/s) >> ftp> exit >> 221 Goodbye! >> # >> >> So I wonder if someone got anything SYSIII -> Net/TCP/IP related >> which could help me in any way to get a SYSIII kernel capable of >> TCP/IP and PTYs to get a telnetd up and running via SLIP is my >> first goal. >> >> Regards, >> Oliver >> _______________________________________________ >> TUHS mailing list >> TUHS(a)minnie.tuhs.org >> https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs > > -- > --- > Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS(a)minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs