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The Software Group's Solaris Port of ISODE |
Introduction
ISODE is an OSI Development Environment originally created by Marshall T.
Rose of the Wollongong Group as a non-proprietary OSI protocol suite. It
includes the protocol stack as well as applications such as ftam/ftamd for
file transfer.
The OSI protocol stack supports several options for the lower layers.
For example, TCP/IP may be used. X.25 is another option, which is where
this port of ISODE comes in. This port of ISODE adds support for TSG's
X.25 API and allows the use of ISODE over either Netcom II/Solaris Sparc
(using an X.25 stack in the same machine as the application) or SyncServer
Client (an application utilizing an X.25 stack in a remote, IP-connected
device).
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What Do I Need?
TSG's support to ISODE takes the form of a tar file. It is based on the
standard ISODE version 8.0 source with necessary modifications to allow it
to compile on Solaris Sparc 8 or 9 and to use TSG's X.25 API. |
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ISODE 8 for Solaris |
In order to compile the source, you will need have a C compiler a yacc parser,
lex and make. If you installed your machine with development tools, these
will likely be in place. |
Because of the architecture of the ISODE applications, two routines
were required to be added to the API library, libx25.a. If you have
Netcom II for Solaris Sparc version 4.9.1 or earlier, you will need to
upgrade your libx25.a. Place the new library in /lib. This library
change also requires some header file changes. Place new copies of
libx25.h, libx25errs.h and libx25protos.h into /usr/include/sys/x25.
If you have SyncServer Client, you library and header files will already be
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libx25.a
libx25.h
libx25errs.h
libx25protos.h |
If you are using a SyncServer 1000 version 1.3.1 or earlier, you will need
to update the software in the SyncServer using ssupdate and a new
ss.bin.upd file. No upgrade is required for SyncServer 2000 and higher.
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How Do I Build It?
- Extract the standard ISODE source:
tar xf /tmp/isode-8.tsg.tar
cd isode-8.0
- Run make:
./make all
./make all-ftam
./make inst-all
./make inst-ftam
You will need to run the last two commands as root if you have the usual
system directory permissions.
Note that you must run "./make" and not just "make". If there are
other optional components you wish to use, see the Makefile for details.
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Testing
You will need to place an X.25 call. This means that you will either need
to be on an X.25 network and call yourself or use two machines with a null
modem cable between them. Only netid 0 (link 0) is supported for ISODE.
Before you begin with the ISODE testing, make sure that your link is up
using tsgstat (Netcom II) or the Link Status in the Link Statistics
window (SyncServer).
The ISODE services will act as the default for all incoming X.25 calls, so
you need to make sure that no other application has issued a default listen.
For Netcom II, you need stop the TSG-supplied call handler from performing a
listen. To do this, edit the file /etc/x25net to run "x25daemon -n" rather than just x25daemon and then run x25net restart.
This is not necessary for SyncServer.
The default install location for the ISODE files is in the directory /usr/Isode. The sbin directory contains the daemons (services to
handle incoming OSI requests) and the bin directory contains the user
applications.
On one of the test machines, run:
/usr/Isode/sbin/tsapd
This daemon handles all incoming ISO requests and starts up appropriate
auxiliary services (for example, the ftam daemon). tsapd will turn on
debugging if its stderr device is a tty.
On the other test machine, run:
/usr/Isode/bin/ftam 12345678
where 12345678 is the X.25 address of the machine you wish to call.
It will ask you for a user name and password. These must match a valid login
ID and password on the remote machine. If all goes well, you will be told
that you are connected and then it will wait for further directions. You can,
for example, "get /etc/termcap". |
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