RFS COTS Interface

Monkey Face@unixprt monkey at unixprt.UUCP
Thu Dec 4 05:37:04 AEST 1986


>I have a 3B2 running System V Rel 3.1 with local enhancements (job control,
>symbolic links, etc.). RFS runs on top of NPACK on top of EMD (EMD is the
>hardware driver for the 3BNET board). TCP/IP runs directly on top of EMD.
>We can run RFS on top of TCP/IP, but that is slower than running it on
>top of NPACK. It is exactly the same RFS code in both cases.
>Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill

Yes, but 3.1 does not exist yet in the non-ATT world.

I have since found out that that the problem I discussed was fixed in
3.1.  When will 3.1 be available to the non-ATT world?

Also, NPACK is not in the release, will it ever be?

Monkey Face at unixprt (uni-xperts)



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