[Coco] TCP/IP update

[Brett Gordon]

Yes, I plan on demo'ing at the Fest.  I also going to give a introductory
talk on Fuzix.

I also be working on getting am (emulated) TRS-80 model-whatever running
Fuzix too.

brett

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 3:08 AM, RETRO Innovations <go4retro at go4retro.com>
wrote:

> On 1/27/2017 1:52 AM, Brett Gordon wrote:
>
>> In the last few days I hacked up some ioctls for fuzix's sockets.  bind()
>> and UDP broadcasting works now.  This morning a more-or-less normal unix
>> dhcp client successfully set up my coco connected via Jim's CoCoNIC card
>> to
>> my run-o'-mill home LAN.
>> https://twitter.com/beretta42/status/824751708504989696?s=09
>>
>> Also, I noodled with the uIP engine to also do raw ip sockets.  This was
>> incredibly easy to do by simply copying and modding the existing UDP code.
>> Now having unix raw sockets, I was able to knock out a ping client that
>> acts normal, sans the trip clocking.  It even reports the "dest
>> unreachable" ICMP thingie. :)
>>
>> Here's my cool programming state of Zen thing:  Without having reviewed
>> (or
>> understood) traditional unix code for 'ping' or 'dhcpcd',  my versions of
>> the same turned out quite similar code-wise.  I guess just knowing how the
>> kernel works apparently makes it easy to logic out the application
>> programming :P
>>
>> To reach a further state of CoCo Nirvana, I spent the pm telneting to
>> NostalgiaMUD in one tty and chatting with friends via IRC in the other.
>>
>> Peace.
>>
>>
> Yay!
>
>
> Any chance we can demo at CocoFEST?
>
>
> JIm
>
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