Archive-name: auto/comp.sys.next.announce/VENET1-Loadable-Device-Driver-source-available-for-anonymous-FTP


VENET1 is a Loadable Kernel Server that provides access to
EtherTalk Phase I and AARP datagrams through a "UNIX Device
Driver" interface.  This software is for "Black Hardware" running
NeXT Software Releases 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.2a, or 3.0.

VENET1 does not implement AppleTalk protocols, but enables user
mode software to do so.  I provide instructions on how to use
it with the University of Melbourne's ARNS (A Remote Network
Server) package, which allows distant Macintoshes connected to
the Internet (or over asynchronous serial lines) to remotely
access AppleTalk networks.

I hope this example will answer many of the questions others have
had about writing device drivers (in general) and network
protocol handlers (specifically) for NeXT systems, and encourage
some of you to work on porting certain well-known network
software that already runs on "everyone else's UNIX
implementations."

	Anonymous FTP from sutro.sfsu.edu [130.212.15.230]
	pub/venet1-1.1.tar.Z
	32975 bytes, BSD sum 18127
	Includes full source code and documentation.  No binaries.
	Copyrighted but freely redistributable.

"This product includes software developed by the University of
 California, Berkeley and its contributors."

If you find VENET1 useful, write to the address in the README
file.  We'd like to hear from you.

					-=EPS=-