ATT 3b2/400 and TCP/IP

[Joel M. Snyder]

In a recent posting in this newsgroup, it was pointed out that
Wollongong TCP/IP is being sold by AT&T for their 3B2s.  This
is true.  However, any reader must be cautioned that this is
the most miserable implementation of TCP/IP available.  In particular,
it tends not to communicate with Berkeley 4.3 systems (depending
on how the kernel was genned, but exactly what's important, AT&T
tech support has never been able to tell). There are other problems,
mostly related to routing (which most people won't care about;
using a 3B2 as an IP gateway isn't a typical application), and 
the support for "standard Berkeley Idiosyncracies" is not good
(although, one must admit, not required for anything except 
interoperability).   I have been told that
there is a V2.2 release "in the offing" which resolves some of these
bugs, but readers looking for
IP on their 3B2 might be interested in talking to other vendors
first.  

jms

Disclaimer: I have no connection with any vendor of IP for
3B2s.