From puhuri@Niksula.hut.fi Tue Aug 17 04:36:41 1993 Received: from joker.cs.hut.fi by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.3) id AA05201; Tue, 17 Aug 93 04:36:35 PDT Received: from colossus.cs.hut.fi by niksula.hut.fi id <62437-12>; Tue, 17 Aug 1993 14:28:09 +0300 From: Markus Peuhkuri To: announce@cs.ucdavis.edu Subject: AmiTCP/IP - TCP/IP protocol stack for Amiga release 2.0 Message-Id: <93Aug17.142809eet_dst.62437-12@niksula.hut.fi> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1993 14:28:07 +0300 Status: RO TITLE AmiTCP/IP - TCP/IP protocol stack for Amiga VERSION Release 2.0 AUTHORS The AmiTCP/IP Programming Project Group in Helsinki University of Technology, referred further on as AmiTCP/IP Group: Tomi Ollila Pekka Pessi Markus Peuhkuri Jarno Rajahalme E-mail address for the group: amitcp-group@hut.fi DESCRIPTION AmiTCP/IP is the first publicly available TCP/IP protocol stack for the SANA-II interface. AmiTCP/IP provides an application level socket interface to the Internet protocol suite as an Amiga shared library. The Internet protocols, commonly known as TCP/IP, consist of user level protocols TCP and UDP and IP as the network level protocol. There is a wide variety of different network applications and services using TCP/IP protocols. The BSD compatible socket interface to Internet protocols makes it possible to port existing applications with minor modifications. AmiTCP/IP connects to the network via SANA-II compatible device drivers. SANA-II is a hardware and protocol independent network adapter interface specification published by Commodore. Several network adapter manufactures have made available SANA-II device drivers for their hardware. Currently there are SANA-II drivers available at least for Ethernet, Arcnet and serial line interfaces. You can connect to Internet with Ethernet LAN, or via modem line with Serial line IP (SLIP) optionally with compressed headers (CSLIP). A typical application is to use (C)SLIP to connect univeristy and have multitasking connection: you can read mails and news, transfer files and use IRC at the same time over one modem line. FEATURES 1. Standard SANA-II network device driver interface. 2. BSD-compatible socket interface as a Amiga shared library. 3. ARexx port for configuration and statistics. 4. Over 200 pages of documentation including: - Installation and configuration - ARexx port commands - Programmer's manual based on the BSD IPC manual. This is a fairly complete tutorial for developing powerful client/server applications - Internal description of the implementation - Utility and API function reference guide in AutoDoc form. 5. Basic applications with source included. 6. Based on the BSD Net/2 release. 7. Full source code included. While all Internet services and applications (telnet, ftp, news, mail) can be accessed with AmiTCP/IP, many applications are still under development by us and others. Current release of the AmiTCP/IP contains following applications: * Telnet - standard program to log on other systems ** * Ftp - standard program to transfer files between systems ** * Napsaterm - a VT100 terminal emulator using remote login protocol * TCP - networking support for GNU Emacs. With TCP you can use any elisp-based networking applications (gnus, gopher, irchat etc.) * LetNet - a simple filter for connecting to TCP based services. Suitable for scripts and testing * inetd - Internet super server, which starts other services when needed and provides some simple services by itself * FingerD - a Finger daemon which prints user information or a banner file * QWriter - an application to test and benchmark network Following network utilities are also available: * arp - tool to handle ARP hardware address translation tables * ifconfig - tool to control network interface parameters * netstat - a ARexx script to get statistical information from networking * ping - utility to test network connectivity * route - tool to display and manipulate routing tables * online/offline - utilities to control SANA-II device drivers ** = ported by Mark Tomlinson and Goeff McCaughan SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS AmiTCP/IP can be run from floppy and with one megabyte of memory, but as usual, hard disk and more memory makes your life easier. Amiga OS release 2.04 or newer is required. SANA-II device driver is needed for your network adapter. A test device driver, agnet.device, is included with sources. Also the freely distributable Commodore A2060 (Arcnet), A2065 (Ethernet), SLIP and CSLIP drivers are included. SLIP and CSLIP drivers contains bug fixes made by Olaf Seibert. LHA utility is required to unarchive distribution archives. Most of the source files has been compiled with GNU C 2.3 and SAS C 6.3. Some utilities and libraries are compiled only with SAS C 6.3. However, only the executable files compiled with SAS C are tested. Also, the DICE C support is untested. AVAILABILITY AmiTCP/IP software has been uploaded to the Aminet. It should be shortly available at the following Aminet hosts: Switzerland litamiga.epfl.ch (128.178.151.32) Scandinavia ftp.luth.se (130.240.16.3) Germany ftp.uni-kl.de (131.246.9.95) Germany ftp.uni-erlangen.de (131.188.1.43) Germany ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de (130.149.17.7) Germany ftp.th-darmstadt.de (130.83.55.75) Germany ftp.uni-paderborn.de (131.234.2.32) USA ftp.etsu.edu (192.43.199.20) USA ftp.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4) Australia splat.aarnet.edu.au (192.107.107.6) UK src.doc.ic.ac.uk (146.169.2.1) For the convenience of Finnish users, AmiTCP/IP is also uploaded to the ftp.funet.fi. The latest version of AmiTCP/IP is located in kampi.hut.fi. This archive is not meant for massive downloading. Major new versions will be announced and distributed to other archives, too. DIRECTORY In Aminet: pub/aminet/comm/net ftp.funet.fi: pub/amiga/datacomm/tcpip kampi.hut.fi: AmiTCP FILE NAMES AmiTCP/IP revision 2.0 is distributed in 7 archives: AmiTCP-bin-20.lha AmiTCP/IP binaries AmiTCP-psA-20.lha Documentation for AmiTCP (PostScript, A4) AmiTCP-dvA-20.lha Documentation for AmiTCP (DVI, A4) AmiTCP-psL-20.lha Documentation for AmiTCP (PostScript, Letter) AmiTCP-dvL-20.lha Documentation for AmiTCP (DVI, Letter) AmiTCP-txt-20.lha Documentation for AmiTCP (plain text) AmiTCP-src-20.lha Source for AmiTCP/IP If you just want to use AmiTCP/IP you need only archive AmiTCP-bin-20.lha containing also the basic documentation. The separate documentation files consists of the full System manual in different formats. It is available in text, PostScript and DVI formats. PostScript and DVI documents are formatted for A4 and "Letter" page sizes, PostScript fonts have 300 dpi resolution. Normally you need only one version suitable to your printer. Full documentation includes Programmer's Manual and Implementation Notes. To develop your own applications or AmiTCP/IP you need AmiTCP-src-20.lha, too. Archive name contains the release number, for instance archive AmiTCP-bin-20.lha contains release 2.0. PRICE AND DISTRIBUTION AmiTCP/IP is distributed for free under GNU General Public License Version 2. PLEASE NOTE The second release of AmiTCP contains some improvements and bug fixes over first release. It is incompatible with previous version in binary level. Some old applications and new library _DO_NOT_ work together. If you have an application compiled with previous version of AmiTCP/IP, it _MUST_ be recompiled. We hope that this is the only downward incompatible release. Documentation is still not reformatted for (La)TeXinfo or AmigaGuide. HOW TO CONTACT AUTHORS E-mail address for: the group: amitcp-group@hut.fi bug reports and fixes: amitcp-bug@hut.fi developer (amitcp@hut.fi) and announce list subscribition: amitcp-request@hut.fi -- Markus Peuhkuri ! internet: Markus.Peuhkuri@hut.fi Visakoivunkuja 15 G 43 ! X.400: G=Markus, S=Peuhkuri, O=hut, 02130 ESPOO ! PRMD=inet, ADMD=fumail, C=fi Finland, Europe ! tel: home: +358-0-452 1992 work: +358-0-451 2462