#!/bin/more

Andrew L. Sandoval
sandoval@perigee.net
8/21/97

This port of DCE RPC to Linux is possible thanks to the work of many others
(such as Michael T. Peterson, Xavier Leroy, the whole Linux development
group, and the folks at DEC and OSF.)

Everything seems to build properly, but, there are some bugs:
1) UDP (or for the long-winded: ncadg_ip_udp) does not work.  If you know
why, please tell me!

2) The "float" call in the perf example hangs.  The rest of the example
seems to work fine.

Requirements:
*Linux 2.0.30 on Intel (I have not found a libc suiteable for LinuxThreads
on Sparc yet.)
*LinuxThreads version 0.6
*A version of libc or glibc that works with LinuxThreads
*A working ethernet interface
*Standard Stuff like gcc, etc.

NOTE:

Most of what you will find here is just what it purports to be, "a PORT". 
I have hacked up the Exception Handling in the threads directory to work
with LinuxThreads, and have made changes in the code where necessary to work
with LinuxThreads, and to get desired results (such as only showing the
binding to a real ethernet IP address, rather than ALWAYS showing the
loopback address.)  The only new code is the simple program that creates
/etc/ieee_802_addr by pasting in your ethernet adapter's hardware address.

It would be good if we could fix the outstanding bugs.  Even better would be
to form a group working on porting DCE 1.2.2 to Linux and finding a way to
keep it free for non-commercial or developmental use.  (I mean the whole
thing, RPC, secd, CDS, DFS, servers and clients!)  I would like to be a part
of such an effort when and if it is undertaken.

Be sure to read through the rest of the README files for more details.


