New bnet Patch For The AWS 95 (6/95)


This article describes the new bnet patch for the Apple Workgroup Server (AWS) 95.

The AWS 95 bnet patch has been released to the internet. It is in the following folder:

<ftp://abs.apple.com/pub/abs/aws95/patches/bnet>


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BNET Networking module patch May 13, 1995

This module replaces the existing bnet networking module for A/UX releases 3.1 and 3.1.1. It should not be used with previous releases.

This module has the following functionality changes
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1) Fixes a problem in the TCP/IP code that could cause crashes under high load conditions when a remote machine times out a connection.

2) Adds support for traceroute.

To install
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1) Copy the existing file "/etc/boot.d/bnet" file to a safe place

2) Put 'bnet' into /etc/boot.d

3) Run 'newconfig' (with no arguments) as root

4) Reboot the system


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Published Date: Feb 19, 2012