Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 08:43:55 -0800 (PST) From: Dmitry Kohmanyuk <dk@dog.farm.org> To: karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se (Mikael Karpberg) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: byte ordering and talk? Message-ID: <199802121643.IAA08911@dog.farm.org>
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In article <199802071416.PAA04586@ocean.campus.luth.se> you wrote: [...] > > No, the byte order is fixed in the specification (ntohs, nothl anyone). > > the problem that you are refferning to is either of 2 problems: > > > > 1: slightly different struct sockaddr_in structres (some have a 'lenght' > > field (AIX), others do not (FreeBSD) > > > > 2: ntalk/talk there are 2 differnt talk protocols, everyone uses one > > (can't remember), sun uses the other. (check /etc/inetd.conf and > > /etc/services, they bind to different ports.) > Everyone uses ntalk, except for SUN. > So go install ntalk on the SUN machines, and you'll be fine. one consequence of talk brokenness in Solaris is that you cannot talk from Solaris/sparc to Solaris/x86. (the error message is: [Unable to connect with initiator : Address family not supported by protocol fam ily (124)] So, it is a vendor problem not worth to fix in FreeBSD IMHO.... -- To steal from one person is theft. To steal from many is taxation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe hackers" in the body of the message
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