Date: Sat, 23 Dec 95 07:51:02 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #37 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sat, 23 Dec 95 Volume 8 : Issue 37 Today's Topics: communications programs Ethernet Problems on a 3/50 Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #36 www browser without slip/ppp/term +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > @net-kitchen.com | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / | | WWW Archive access: http://www.net-kitchen.com/~sah | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 09:11:01 -0800 From: Jonathan Thornburg Subject: communications programs To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com In Suns-at-Home v8 n36, Stephen T. McKenna asks for suggestions for serial communications and file transfer software for Solaris 2. It's not the ultimate in glitzy GUIs :=), but I'd suggest kermit. It's solid, free, and runs on just about every computer/OS there is, I believe including Solaris 2. (I can't confirm this personally.) If you raise the sliding window size up a bit, it's reasonably efficient at file transfers. There are several kermits around, the Unix one is C-kermit. You should be able to get source or maybe even binaries from your nearest archive site; I believe ftp.cs.columbia.edu is the master distribution point. - Jonathan Thornburg - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 14:21:03 -0800 (PST) From: Curt Sampson Subject: Ethernet Problems on a 3/50 To: Suns at Home I've got a Sun 3/50 which is experiencing some odd Ethernet problems. When booting from the network, quite often (about three out of four times) the tftp load will suddenly slow down to a crawl because the Sun takes 3-4 seconds to acknowledge each packet from the tftp server. Sometimes it will get back up to speed again for a few dozen packets, but it usually doesn't. When I finally do get the thing up and runing (I'm booting Xserver) X comes up all right, but many of the packets sent by the sun are missing the last byte, according to my packet analyser. I've booted SunOS 4.1.1 from a SCSI disk and I get the same thing (the short packets) when I try to ftp a large file from the Sun to another host. I get the same behaviour whether using thinnet or a 10base-T transceiver on the AUI port. I've tried out another 3/50 in the same configuration and it works like a charm. This points to a hardware problem with the Ethernet in the my 3/50. Has anyone seen this before? Does anybody know how to repair this? cjs - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Dec 95 12:21:14 -0500 (EST) From: woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods) Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #36 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com [[ There's something weird with the headers in this list. A "reply-all" tried to Cc to "Suns-at-Home-List@tigger.net-kitchen.com".... ]] > Date: Fri, 15 Dec 95 15:18:27 CST > From: stmckenna@amoco.com (Stephen T. McKenna) > Subject: what communications programs? > To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > > A question: what are people using for serial communications and file > transfer under Solaris 2? Don't forget about Kermit. It's easily and widely available (at least as source), works *very* reliably, has lots and lots of features, and if you use more recent official versions with sliding window protocol support it's at least as fast, if not faster, than any other file transfer protocol, except for maybe FTP via PPP. You do have to configure the parameters for speed though -- it defaults for reliability. I never anything else for raw async connections. -- Greg A. Woods - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Dec 95 12:24:56 EST From: gary@sabot.com (Gary Sabot) Subject: www browser without slip/ppp/term To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu Does anyone know of any solution that would let me run a graphical web browser on a remote unix machine that I would dial into and display the results on my unix machine? I want to avoid actually putting my machine on the net while I'm dialed up with slip/ppp/term/ etc, so I don't have to worry about security issues, firewalls, etc. If I had a PC, I could run some sort of xterminal program like NCD PCXware with Xremote for dialup, and my problem would be solved. But I'm on a unix box. Are there any xterminal programs for Unix boxes that don't end up making your machine vulnerable (i.e. if I accidentally had "xhost+" for my display under a PC xterminal program, there isn't too much damage anyone can do to me outside of the xterminal application, but if I did that with unix+ppp, my whole machine would be wide open...) Thanks. --gary - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************