AT&T papers on network interfaces
A. Lester Buck
buck at siswat.UUCP
Tue Mar 13 13:16:14 AEST 1990
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 at siswat.lonestar.org ...!texbell!moray!siswat!buck
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