From: hedrick@dumas.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) Subject: Re: TCP/IP support & Linux Date: 29 Jun 1992 03:44:04 GMT
>In article <1992Jun29.014719.4216@a.cs.okstate.edu> kennejs@a.cs.okstate.edu (KENNEDY JAMES SCOT) writes:
>>I understand that support for TCP/IP under Linux is well on its way
>>and is being alpha tested. My question is this: when TCP/IP
>>support is available will it be possible to get NFS and/or RFS for
>>Linux (that is if I can get the code)? Also, what about SLIP? I'm
>>interested in SLIP support because I want to be able to do an X
>>session over a dialup-line. Finally, is the code for rcp, telnet,
>>ftp, ping, etc. widely available and what is my chances of getting
>>any of these programs to work reliably under Linux?
rcp, telnet, ftp, ping, etc, are all user level programs written by
Berkeley. So they are available, and once the kernel support is there
for TCP, they will work. NFS and RFS both come from vendors (though I
believe there's now a free NFS), and they both involve sigificant
kernel work to interface to the file sytem. So they'll take longer to
happen if they happen at all. SLIP is fairly simple. There's code
from Berkeley, but device level stuff in Linux is rather different
than in Berkeley Unix, so it's not clear how much help the Berkeley
code will be. But I'd think once TCP/IP is up somebody (maybe even
me) would do SLIP.
X would actually be fairly easy to add to KA9Q. Depending upon how
long it takes for the kernel TCP/IP to solidify, I may add X to KA9Q.