[Info-vax] Choice of network stacks for Hobbyists?

[brad]

On 2012-08-04, Paul Sture <paul at sture.ch> wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Aug 2012 17:01:08 +0000, Simon Clubley wrote:
>
>>>
>> In reality however, depending on what the OP wants to do with SFTP,
>> he may find the version he is using utterly broken and in need of more
>> recent images from HP.
>> 
>> It's embarrassing that the vendor supplied TCP/IP stack for it's
>> enterprise level operating system cannot even get the basics right and
>> that customers are forced to point out that Linux works just fine in
>> similar circumstances before said vendor supplied stack gets fixed.
>> 
>> (The OP's TCP/IP version is the same version I was using when I had the
>> series of SFTP/SSH issues I discussed in comp.os.vms a few months ago.)
>
> This is very relevant to anyone running Hobbyist systems.
>
> FWIW with the version that came with VMS V8.4 last February, ssh simply 
> hung on me.  I had read of problems with it so gave up at that point.
>
> Before I make the leap to Multinet or TCPware, can anyone point me to a 
> comparison chart of the two products please?
>

>From the horse's mouth  (both comparisons vs. TCP/IP):

<http://process.com/tcpip/multicompare.html>  (Multinet)

<http://process.com/tcpip/tcpcompare.html>  (TCPware)

Full disclosure - satisfied Hobbyist user of both stacks for a number of 
years.

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