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From: rees@CITI.UMICH.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: TCP/Aegis vs. TCP/IX
Message-ID: <8808181700.AA27686@umix.cc.umich.edu>
Date: 18 Aug 88 16:45:14 GMT
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Reply-To: rees@caen.engin.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
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    I received distribution tapes for both TCP 3.1 and TCP BSD 3.1.
    Reading the documentation uncovered some changes to the distribution
    approach.  For one thing, the BSD version now uses standard UNIX host
    tables instead of the Aegis method using the "local.txt" file.
    Unfortunately, I use programs from both environments.  For instance,
    /etc/ping (BSD) and tcpstat (Aegis).  And I don't want to convert my
    Aegis-style host files yet (SR10 will require it).

This isn't a change.  The bsd tcp has always used its own separate host
tables.  There's a script somewhere that converts from the NIC standard
host tables that aegis tcp uses to the special ones that Berkeley uses.
The intent is that you'll keep NIC host tables, and run the script from
cron to keep the Berkeley side up to date.

It's too bad to lose the aegis tcp (Berkeley's ftp server is particularly
bad) but I guess that's the price of progress.
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