Smallest TCP/IP code?
Paul Koning
pkoning at equallogic.com
Thu Feb 17 20:10:44 CST 2005
>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Jennings <tomj at wps.com> writes:
Tom> Any ideas on what the smallest/easiest to port TCP and IP code
Tom> might be? I keep having this abberant idea of writing TCP/IP
Tom> code for the Data General Nova, for RDOS, for a mapped
Tom> foreground/background system.
Tom> A telnet or ftp server could run in userland, and have access to
Tom> what that user would. Probably SLIP to some unix host via a tty
Tom> interface.
Tom> I have never coded such a thing. Assuming I can clip the feature
Tom> set to an excruciating minumum (no sliding windows, etc) how
Tom> complex would it be?
No sliding windows? You mean fixed size windows? The window has to
slide, otherwise you're not going to receive more than one window of
data...
Anyway, the BSD 2.x code might be helpful; after all that fits into a
PDP-11. And it's written in C.
As for the compiler, you could do a Nova port for GCC... :-)
paul
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