This book uses many publicly available software packages. This appendix provides additional details on how to obtain this software.
The technique used to obtain this software is called anonymous FTP, where FTP is the standard Internet File Transfer Protocol (Chapter 27). Section 27.3 shows an example of anonymous FTP. For a background on Internet resources in general, and specifically anonymous FTP, refer to any of the recently available books on the Internet, such as [LaQuey 1993] or [Krol 1992].
The hosts listed here are believed to be the primary site where the package is available. There may be many other sites where the software is also available. The Internet Archie service can locate additional versions. Also, the versions listed below are the ones used for the examples in the text.
Newer versions may have been released by the time you read this.
You should use the FTP dir command to see if newer versions exist on that specified host.
This appendix is ordered by the chapter or section number where the resource was used in this text.
Section 1.11 provides the electronic mail address to send a request to. The reply details numerous sites from which the RFCs can be obtained using either e-mail 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 obsoleted or updated by a newer RFC.
The BSD Net/2 source code, which includes the kernel implementation of the TCP/IP protocols, along with the standard utilities (Telnet client and server, FTP client and server, etc.), is available from ftp.uu.net in the directory tree starting at systems/unix/bsd-sources.
The version of SLIP used in this text is available from ftp.ee.lbl.gov. The filename begins with cslip, since it supports compressed SLIP (Section 2.5).
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The BSD version of ping normally has more options and features than the version supplied by many vendors. The host ftp.uu.net contains the latest BSD version in the file systems/unix/bsd-sources/sbin/ping.
The traceroute program is available from ftp.ee.lbl.gov. Refer to the final entry of this section for the version used in Section 8.5 that allows loose and strict source routing.
A program is available that provides host support and router support for the router discovery messages. The host is gregorio.stanford.edu and the file is gw-discovery/nordmark-rdisc.tar. The program was written by Sun Microsystems and made publicly available.
The gated routing daemon, mentioned in Section 10.3, is available from the host gated.cornell.edu.
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The modifications required to support IP multicasting for SunOS 4.x and Ultrix are available from gregorio.stanford.edu in the directory vmtp-ip. This directory also contains the source code modifications required to implement IP multicasting in a Berkeley Unix system.
The BIND name server, the named daemon, is available from the host ftp.uu.net in the file networking/ip/dns/bind/bind.4.8.3.tar.Z.
A newer version, 4.9, is available from gatekeeper.dec.com in the directory pub/BSD/bind/4.9.
The host program is available from the host nikhefh.nikhef.nl in the file host.tar.Z.
The dig and doc programs mentioned in Chapter 14 are available from the host isi.edu in the files dig.2.0.tar.Z and doc.2.0.tar.Z.
Various versions of the commonly used Unix BOOTP server are available from the host lancaster.andrew.emu.edu, in the pub directory.
A publicly available source code implementation of the TCP window scale option, time-stamp option, and PAWS algorithm is available as a set of patches to the BSD Net/2 release from the host uxc.cso.uiuc.edu in the file pub/tcplw.shar.Z.
The SNMP manager and agent described in Section 25.7 are part of the ISODE 8.0 distribution. This is available from many FTP archive sites, such as ftp.uu.net in the networking/osi/isode directory.
A program named MetaMail that provides MIME capabilities for many different user agents is available on the host thumper.bellcore.com in the pub/nsb directory. Also in this directory is additional information on MIME.
A version of the RPC 4.0 sources (which use the sockets API) is available from the host ftp.uu.net in the systems/sun/sextape/rpc4.0 directory. A version of the TI-RPC sources (which use the TLI API) is available from the host ftp.uu.net in the networking/rpc directory.
A publicly available implementation of an NFS client and server is provided as part of the BSD Net/2 Source Code described earlier in this appendix.
The version of tcpdump used in this text is from the host ftp.ee.lbl.gov in the file tcpdump-2.2.1.tar.Z.
The BSD packet filter is part of the tcpdump distribution.
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(This program was not used in the text, but is a useful tool of which readers should be aware.) ttcp is a benchmarking tool for measuring TCP and UDP performance between two systems. It was created at the U.S. Army Ballistics Research Lab (BRL) and is in the public domain. Copies are available from many anonymous FTP sites but an enhanced version is available from ftp.sgi.com in the directory sgi/src/ttcp.
The author-written software used in the book is available from the host ftp.uu.net in the file published/books/stevens.tcpipiv1.tar.Z.