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

[Paul Sture]

On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 20:04:27 +0000, brad wrote:

> 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.
> 

Thanks Brad.

-- 
Paul Sture