[Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2020-05-30 Thread Johnny Billquist
Time for a new release announcement of TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS. Highlights: . Improvements to TCP performance. . Bugfixes and improvements for DNS/mDNS. . RSX security improvement. Detailed information on things that have been done since the last release: TCP: . Bugfix in longword

[Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2020-04-12 Thread Johnny Billquist
Time for a new release announcement of TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS. Highlights: . Added IGMP . mDNS have been implemented . Bug fixes and enchanced functionality in UDP . Performance and stability improvements in TCP . Improved Multinet driver . Stability improvements in HTTP with CGI . Bugfix for

[Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2020-02-09 Thread Johnny Billquist
Time for a new release announcement of TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS. Highlights: . IP multicasting have been implemented . TCP stability improvements Detailed information on things that have been done since the last release: IP: . Added IP multicast support, and functions to enable this on UDP

[Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2019-09-14 Thread Johnny Billquist
Time for a new release announcement of TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS. Highlights: . TCP have had some potential fatal bugs fixed, and some significant performance improvements. . FTP have received significant performance improvements. . Various tools and drivers have had improvements in order to

[Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2019-06-12 Thread Johnny Billquist
Time for a new release announcement of TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS. Highlights: This release have some rather significant work done on the mail system. There have also been some minor improvements on TCP, HTTPD, FTP and libraries. Detailed information on things that have been done since the last

[Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2019-04-22 Thread Johnny Billquist
Time for a new release announcement of TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS. Highlights: This release have some performance improvements, bugfixes, and additional functionality. It also includes a print symbiont for the queue manager, which spools files over TCP/IP to remote printers. Detailed

[Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2019-01-06 Thread Johnny Billquist
Time for a new release announcement of TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS. Highlights: This release has many performance improvements at the TCP level, support for new languages, improvements in various tools and libraries, and some functional improvements at protocol level. Detailed information on

[Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2018-09-15 Thread Johnny Billquist
Time for a new release announcement of TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS. Highlights: - One bugfix in TCP, along with some new parameters to increase flexibility and potentially performance. - HTTPD can serve multiple hosts with different content from one machine by use of virtual hosts. - Lots of

[Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2018-05-22 Thread Johnny Billquist
Time for a new release announcement of TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS. I usually try to avoid spamming lists with release announcements, and the previous announcement was only a month ago, so I apologize in advance for the noise. However, I have a really good reason for this announcement. In the last

[Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2018-04-28 Thread Johnny Billquist
Time for a new release announcement of TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS. This release contains a lot of fixes and improvements in many areas. There are a couple of very serious bugs in TCP that is fixed in this release which is why I really encourage people to upgrade. (They do not happen often, but

[Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2018-03-04 Thread Johnny Billquist
Time for a new release announcement of TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS. This release contains a lot of fixes and improvements in many areas. There are a couple of very serious bugs in TCP that is fixed in this release which is why I really encourage people to upgrade. (They do not happen often, but

Re: [Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2017-10-08 Thread Johnny Billquist
And oops. A small error managed to sneak by causing WWW to sometimes crash with a memory error when a bad request comes in. Fixed, and a new dist have been cut and uploaded. Please update again if you already managed to dpwnload it since the announcement, but before now. Johnny On

[Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2017-10-08 Thread Johnny Billquist
Time for a new release announcement of TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS. This release contains a lot of fixes and improvements in many areas. There is one very serious bug in TCP that is fixed in this release which is why I really encourage people to upgrade. Highlights: - Stability and reliability

[Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2017-09-03 Thread Johnny Billquist
Time for a new release announcement of TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS. This release contains a lot of fixes and improvements in many areas. I really encourage people to upgrade, as some of these changes can have a noticeable impact on stability. Highlights: - Distribution now includes the PDP-11

[Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2017-04-30 Thread Johnny Billquist
Time for a new release announcement of TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS. This release contains a lot of fixes and improvements in many areas. I really encourage people to upgrade, as some of these changes can have a noticeable impact on performance, and in some cases, stability. Highlights: A new

[Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2016-10-28 Thread Johnny Billquist
Time for a new release announcement of TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS. This release address some serious bugs and also address performance. I strongly encourage people to upgrade to the latest version to get these fixes, since they can otherwise cause system crashes. Things that have been done since

[Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2016-08-26 Thread Johnny Billquist
Time for a new release announcement of TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS. There have been some improvements in reliability and stability done in the last few months. Part of this is because MAGICA (the real PDP-11/70 that I use) have finally started coming alive again, and running on that machine

[Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2016-03-26 Thread Johnny Billquist
Time for a new release announcement of TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS. A couple of important fixes have been done since the last release. Things that have been done since the last release: TCP: - Bugfix: If a socket was reused after closing down, without the application doing a close, the sequence

[Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2016-03-12 Thread Johnny Billquist
Time for a new release announcement of TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS. Several fixes and improvements have been made since the last announcement. Things that have been done since the last release: IP: - Bugfix: If a packet is received which have less data than the indicated length in the IP header,

[Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2016-01-28 Thread Johnny Billquist
Sorry for making a new announcement so close after the previous one, and the changes are not so great, but I think they are important enough to send this out right away. The only thing this release addresses is DECnet over IP: . First of all, you can now also run DECnet over IP using TCP. The

[Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2016-01-17 Thread Johnny Billquist
Well, about a month since my last announcement, and some improvements have been done, so I figured I should do another one. I've cut a new release of TCP/IP for RSX, and I encourage everyone to update to this latest release. A short list of changes since my last release: TCP: . Added

[Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2015-12-18 Thread Johnny Billquist
Well, about two months since my last announcement, and some improvements have been done, so I figured I should do another one. I've cut a new release of TCP/IP for RSX, and I encourage everyone to update to this latest release. A short list of changes since my last release: TCP: .

Re: [Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2015-11-08 Thread Johnny Billquist
Argh. For anyone who have downloaded the release I cut yesterday - please get the new version (that goes for everyone else as well). I just discovered and fixed an obscure bug that can crash the system. It's something that happens under very specific circumstances, and is uncommon, but if you

[Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2015-11-07 Thread Johnny Billquist
Well, about two weeks since my last announcement, but I figured I should do another one. I've cut a new release of TCP/IP for RSX, and I encourage everyone to update to this latest release. A short list of changes since my last release: Documentation: . I've worked some on the

[Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2015-10-20 Thread Johnny Billquist
About four months since I last announced anything. There have been various development since, and I figured I should encourage people who are using BQTCP/IP for RSX to upgrade to the latest release. A short list of changes: TCP: . Small bugfixes in various states. . Bugfix in window handling.

Re: [Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2015-08-28 Thread Johnny Billquist
I have received some bug reports, and it turns out there was some very serious bug in the release, which corrupted low memory, including interrupt vectors. A new release have been cut. Please update immediately if you have updated since the announcement I made two days ago... Johnny

Re: [Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2015-07-01 Thread Michael Kerpan
This looks very cool. I wonder when the first web server running this stack will come online. I also notice the presence of an IRC client. Has anyone tried to chat from a PDP-11 yet? Mike On Jun 30, 2015 7:46 AM, Johnny Billquist b...@softjar.se wrote: I'm happy to announce a new release of

Re: [Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2015-07-01 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-07-01 23:08, Michael Kerpan wrote: This looks very cool. I wonder when the first web server running this stack will come online. I also notice the presence of an IRC client. Has anyone tried to chat from a PDP-11 yet? You mean apart from mine, as Madame.Update.UU.SE is already serving

Re: [Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2015-07-01 Thread Michael Kerpan
Indeed. I meant apart from your own. Mike On Jul 1, 2015 5:24 PM, Johnny Billquist b...@softjar.se wrote: On 2015-07-01 23:08, Michael Kerpan wrote: This looks very cool. I wonder when the first web server running this stack will come online. I also notice the presence of an IRC client. Has

[Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2015-06-30 Thread Johnny Billquist
I'm happy to announce a new release of TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS. Since I'm broadening the scope of the announcement slightly, a more complete list of features is included, and not just what changed since last. For anyone who is currently running TCP/IP for RSX, I strongly encourage you to

Re: [Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2015-06-12 Thread Johnny Billquist
Argh. And no matter how much you test things, there is always something you might miss. If anyone already downloaded the new dist, please pick the new version I just cut. There is an error in the generated IPINS command file when using DHCP, which cause it to not work right. Johnny