(B-NET) Top level Unix Ethernet software developed at the
University of California at Berkeley. There are no formal
specifications but UCB's 4.2BSD Unix implementation on the
VAX is the de facto standard. Distributed by Unisoft.
Includes net.o driver routines for specific hardware, pseudo
ttys, daemons, hostname command to set/get name, /etc/hosts
database of names and Internet addresses of other hosts,
/etc/hosts.equiv host-wide database to control remote access,
.rhosts per user version of hosts.equiv.
UCB's implementation of the Internet Protocol includes
trailers to improve performance on paged memory management
systems such as VAXen. These trailers are an exception to
the Internet Protocol specification.
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