This text uses URLs to specify the location and method of access of resources on the Internet. For example, the common “anonymous FTP” technique is designated as
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite.tar.gz
This specifies anonymous FTP to the host ftp.cdrom.com
. The filename is 4.4BSD-Lite.tar.gz
in the directory pub/bsd-sources
. The suffix .tar
implies the standard Unix tar
(1) format, and the additional .gz
suffix implies that the file has been compressed with the GNU gzip
(1) program.
There are numerous ways to obtain the 4.4BSD-Lite release. The entire 4.4BSD-Lite release is available from Walnut Creek CD-ROM as
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite.tar.gz
You can also obtain this release on CD-ROM. Contact 1 800 786 9907 or +1 510 674 0783.
O’Reilly & Associates publishes the entire set of 4.4BSD manuals along with the 4.4BSD-Lite release on CD-ROM. Contact 1 800 889 8969 or +1 707 829 0515.
The 4.4BSD-Lite release is not a complete operating system. To experiment with the networking software described in this text you need an operating system that is built from the 4.4BSD-Lite release or an environment that supports the 4.4BSD-Lite networking code.
The operating system used by the authors is commercially available from Berkeley Software Design, Inc. Contact 1 800 ITS BSD8, +1 719 260 8114, or [email protected] for additional information.
There are also freely available operating systems built on 4.4BSD-Lite. These are known by the names NetBSD, 386BSD, and FreeBSD. Additional information is available from Walnut Creek CD-ROM (ftp.cdrom.com) or on the various comp.os.386bsd
Usenet newsgroups.
All RFCs are available at no charge through electronic mail or by using anonymous FTP across the Internet. Sending electronic mail as shown here:
To: [email protected] Subject: getting rfcs help: ways_to_get_rfcs
returns a detailed listing of various ways to obtain the RFCs using either email or anonymous FTP.
Remember that the starting place is to obtain the current index and look up the RFC that you want in the index. This entry tells you if that RFC has been made obsolete or updated by a newer RFC.
The GNU Indent program was used to format all the source code presented in the text, and the GNU Gzip program is often used on the Internet to compress files. These programs are available as
ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/indent-1.9.1.tar.gz ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/gzip-1.2.2.tar
The numbers in the filenames will change as newer versions are released. There are also versions of the Gzip program for other operating systems, such as MS-DOS.
There are many sites around the world that also provide the GNU archives, and the FTP greeting on prep.ai.mit.edu displays their names.
There are several freely available implementations of PPP. Part 5 of the comp.protocols.ppp
FAQ is a good place to start:
Current releases of the mrouted
software as well as other multicast applications can be found at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center:
An SNMP agent implementation compatible with Net/3 is part of the ISODE software package. For more information, start with the ISODE Consortium’s World Wide Web page at
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