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From: pauls@locust.cic.net (Paul Southworth)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,biz.sco.general
Subject: Re: SCO 3.0 and Setting up an Internet Site
Followup-To: biz.sco.general
Date: 1 Sep 1994 03:31:15 GMT
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This posting belongs on biz.sco.general. SCO Unix is *not* BSD.
(Some might argue it is the antithesis of BSD, but that's another story)
Anyway, the SCO folks hang out on biz.sco.general (among other places)
and you'll get better response there. My comments below (full text included
for use by biz.sco.general readers).
In article <76.195.490.0N966966@teaminfinity.com>,
Sysop <sysop@teaminfinity.com> wrote:
>Hi, we are trying to set up an Internet Site. We are planning on using
>SCO Intel UNIX version 3.0 on a DELL 100Mhz 486 as the main box. This
>box will attach to the internet either with a SLIP/PPP or T1 connection.
>Attached to this SCO INTEL UNIX box will be 3 or 4 DOS/Windows PCs running
>FTP Software Inc's PC/TCP OnNet 1.1. They will be wired via coax and
>3COM 3C503 cards to the SCO Intel UNIX box.
>
>Some users will gain access to the internet via these PCs and others will SLIP
>into the Intel UNIX box running SCO. The SCO Box will also run the following
>Servers/Daemons: SMTP, NNTP, FTP, Telnet, DNS Name, MOSAIC.
Mosaic is a client, not a server. If you need a web server, you might
start with NCSA's httpd -- there are others as well.
ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu:/Web/httpd/Unix/ncsa_httpd/httpd_1.3
> Also it must handle
>two incoming SLIP lines. We plan on using USRobotics 16550 based serial cards
>for the SLIP connections (Both the SLIP connnection to the Internet if we do
>not get a T1 right away, and the two incoming SLIP lines for Dial in users.)
A terminal server is a good investment if you want your SLIP to be used
as a production quality service. Livingston and Cisco are the ones I like.
There are many others. I found Livingston tech support excellent.
Email to info@livingston.com or look for more info on
ftp.netcom.com:/pub/livingston
> Questions:
>
> 1. Is SCO UNIX Open Server Enterprise System 3.0
> (Part No. SC104-UX72-3.0.0) capable of doing
> the above ? i.e. does the SCO distribution
> include the following:
> (Server = daemon)
>
> A. SMTP Server/daemon
> B. NNTP Server/daemon (Net News Tranport Protocol)
> C. TELNET Server/daemon
> D. FTP Server/daemon
> E. Mosaic Server/daemon
Not httpd. The others above are included except for NNTP which I'm
not sure about. You should get INN 1.4 for your news service anyway.
ftp.uu.net:/networking/news/transport/inn
> F. DNS Name Server/daemon
> G. SLIP or PPP Server/daemon
This was separate last I knew, but that was some time ago. If it is
still unbundled, you might consider getting PPP from Morningstar instead.
ftp.morningstar.com:/pub/ppp -- they offer commercial implementations
of PPP, and I think some of the freebies are in that directory as well.
Call them for the real dirt; they seem to know what they're talking about.
> If yes, are SCO's servers/daemons etc RFC
> compatible ?
<heh> No comment.
> If no, are there public domain servers/daemons
> out there that are 100 % compatible with this SCO
> and where can they be found.
You generally won't find them in binary form. Ported sources are rarely
100% compatible with anything. Get a C compiler, an editor, and a bunch
of time to hack on it and you'll go far.
> 2. Is there a better Intel Based UNIX out there for
> a project like this ?
Excellent question! Several come to mind (in no particular order and
without particular endorsement). Since you posted to comp.unix.bsd, I'll
take that as fair game...
NetBSD: a 386BSD derivative (consequently coming from Net2 and 4.4BSD
mostly). Version 1.0 out soon.
FreeBSD: ditto. For those two, ask on comp.os.386bsd.questions for more
info. Version 2.0 out soon.
Linux: a from-scratch unix workalike. Very popular and development
is very rapid. Ask about it on comp.os.linux.misc or read
the copious FAQ's on sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/docs/faq
and /pub/Linux/docs/INFO-SHEET. Has a SYSV feel to it in
some ways, but it's really another animal completely (is not
a SYSV- or BSD-derived operating system).
> 3. Do you know anyone who has blazed this trail, i.e.
> has already used SCO UNIX to set up an Internet Site ?
None of the commercial providers I know of are using SCO. There are a
number of smaller dialup sites (not necessarily with direct connectivity)
that run SCO. The "nixpub" list is a good place to find those. I have
a copy that's probably a little out of date. Grep for SCO.
etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Politics/Resources/nixpub.lst
(don't ask why I put it in that directory)
> 4. Will FTP Software Inc's PC/TCP OnNet 1.1 work
> well with SCO 3.0 ?
No clue. Probably will.
--
Paul Southworth
CICNet Systems Support
pauls@cic.net