## TCPware V5.7 User's Guide

- Introduction
- TCPware for OpenVMS Documentation
- Requests for Comments (RFCs)
- Internet, TCP/IP Protocol Suite, and Related Subjects
- Hewlett-Packard Documentation

Appendix A

References

# Introduction

This appendix lists documentation to which you can refer for additional details about TCPware for OpenVMS, TCP/IP protocol suite, networking concepts, and related subjects.

# TCPware for OpenVMS Documentation

Be sure you have the following additional TCPware for OpenVMS documents available for reference:

Installation & Configuration Guide

Management Guide

Network Control Utility (NETCU) Command Reference

Programmer's Guide

# Requests for Comments (RFCs)

Requests for Comments (RFCs) documents contain the specifications for all internet protocols. Unless specifically noted otherwise on the RFC itself, all RFCs are for unlimited distribution.

You can obtain RFCs by going to the http://www.rfcs.org web site.

Table A-1 lists the RFCs containing the protocol specifications implemented by TCPware for OpenVMS.

Table A-1 A Subset of RFCs Implemented by TCPware for OpenVMS (Continued)

Title | RFC #
User Datagram Protocol (STD 6) | 768
Internet Protocol: DARPA Internet Program Protocol Specification | 791
Internet Control Message Protocol (see also RFC 950) | 792
Transmission Control Protocol | 793
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (STD 10) | 821
Standard for the Format of Text Messages (STD 11) | 822
An Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol | 826
TELNET Protocol Specification (STD 8) | 854
TELNET Option Specification (STD 8) | 855
TELNET Binary Transmission (STD 27) | 856
TELNET Echo Option (STD 28) | 857
TELNET Suppress Go Ahead Option (STD 29) | 858
Echo Protocol (STD 20) | 862
Discard Protocol (STD 21) | 863
Character Generator Protocol (STD 22) | 864
Quote of the Day Protocol | 865
Daytime Protocol (STD 25) | 867
Time Protocol (STD 26) | 868
TELNET End of Record Option | 885
Trailer Encapsulations | 893
A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams over Ethernet Networks | 894
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol | 903
Broadcasting Internet Datagrams (STD 5) | 919
Broadcasting Internet Datagrams in the Presence of Subnets (STD 5) | 922
Internet Standard Subnetting Procedures (STD 5) | 950
Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP) | 951
File Transfer Protocol (STD 9) | 959
Mail Routing and the Domain System (STD 14) | 974
XDR: External Data Representation Standard | 1014
Domain Administrators Guide | 1032
Domain Administrators Operations Guide | 1033
Domain Names: Concepts and Facilities | 1034
A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams over IEEE 802 Networks | 1042
Internet Protocol on Network Systems HYPERchannel Protocol Specification | 1044
A Nonstandard for Transmission of IP Datagrams over Serial Lines: SLIP | 1055
RPC: Remote Procedure Call Protocol Specification, Version 2 | 1057
TELNET Window Size Option | 1073
TELNET Terminal Speed Option | 1079
TELNET Terminal-Type Option | 1091
NFS: Network File System Protocol Specification | 1094
TELNET X Display Location Option | 1096
DNS Encoding of Network Names and Other Types | 1101
U.S. Department of Defense Security Options for the Internet Protocol | 1108
Host Extensions for IP Multicasting (STD 5) | 1112
Compressing TCP/IP Headers for Low-Speed Serial Links | 1144
Structure and Identification of Management Information...(STD 17) | 1155
A Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) (STD 15) | 1157
Line Printer Daemon Protocol | 1179
New DNS RR Definitions | 1183
Path MTU Discovery | 1191
Management Information Base for Network Management... | 1213
Tunneling IPX Traffic through IP Networks | 1234
BSD Rlogin | 1282
The Finger User Information Protocol | 1288
Network Time Protocol (Version 3) Specification, Implementation & Analysis | 1305
TCP Extension for High Performance | 1323
DNS NSAP RRs | 1348
Type of Service in the Internet Protocol Suite | 1349
The TFTP Protocol (Revision 2) (STD 33) | 1350
Multiprotocol Interconnect on X.25 and ISDN in the Packet Mode | 1356
TELNET Remote Flow Control Option | 1372
Transmission of IP and ARP over FDDI Network (STD 36) | 1390
IP Multicast over Token-Ring Local Area Networks | 1469
Encoding Header Field for Internet Messages | 1505
Applicability Statement for the Implementation of CIDR | 1517
An Architecture for IP Address Allocation with DICR | 1518
Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR):...Strategy | 1519
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol | 1541
Classical IP and ARP over ATM | 1577
The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) (STD 51) | 1661
Assigned Numbers (STD 2) | 1700
Post Office Protocol - Version 3 (STD 53) | 1939
Internet Message Access Protocol - Version 4rev1 | 2060
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol | 2131
DHCP Options and BOOTPD Vendor Extensions | 2132
Dynamic Updates in the Domain Name System (DNS Update) | 2136
Secure Domain Name System Dynamic Update | 2137
Agent Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol Version 1 | 2741
Definitions of Managed Objects for Extensible SNMP Agents | 2742

# Internet, TCP/IP Protocol Suite, and Related Subjects

The following RFCs are also available on more general Internet, TCP/IP, and related subjects:

RFC 1118, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Internet

RFC 1359, Connecting to the Internet: What Connecting Institutions Should Anticipate

RFC 1392, Internet Users' Glossary

RFC 1432, Recent Internet Books

RFC 1462, FYI on "What is the Internet?"

RFC 1463, FYI on Introducing the Internet—A Short Bibliography of Introductory Internetworking Readings for the Network Novice

RFC 2151, A Primer on Internet and TCP/IP Tools and Utilities

The following books are particularly useful references:

Comer, Douglas E. [1995], Internetworking with TCP/IP, Volume I: Principles, Protocols, and Architecture, Third edition, Prentice-Hall.

Comer, Douglas E. & David L. Stevens [1994], Internetworking with TCP/IP, Volume II: Design, Implementation, and Internals, Second edition, Prentice-Hall.

Comer, Douglas E. & David L. Stevens [1996], Internetworking with TCP/IP, Volume III: Client-Server Programming and Applications for the BSD Socket Version, Second edition, Prentice-Hall.

Frey, Donnalyn, Rick Adams [1989], A Directory of Electronic Mail, Addressing and Networks, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.

LaQuey, Tracy L. (editor) [1990], The User's Directory of Computer Networks, HP Press.

Perlman, Radia [1992], Interconnections: Bridges and Routers, Addison-Wesley.

Quarterman, John S. [1990], The Matrix: Computer Networks and Conferencing Systems Worldwide, HP Press.

Santifaller, Michael [1991], TCP/IP and NFS: Internetworking in a UNIX Environment, translated by Stephen S. Wilson, Addison-Wesley.

Stallings, William [1991], Data and Computer Communications, Third edition, MacMillan.

Stevens, W. Richard [1990], UNIX Network Programming, Prentice-Hall.

Tanenbaum, Andrew S. [1996], Computer Networks, Third edition, Prentice-Hall.

Tolhurst, William A. et al. [1994], Using the Internet, Special Edition, Que Corp.

Table A-2 lists documentation to which you can refer for details on specific topics.

Table A-2 Additional Documentation (Continued)

For Details on... | See...
Process Software’s home page on the World Wide Web | For information about Process Software, its products, and its services, enter the following Universal Resource Locator (URL) from your World Wide Web browser: http://www.process.com/
VAX WAN | VAX WAN Device Drivers Specifications available from HP for details on the device drivers TCPware for OpenVMS supports (DSV11, DSB32, and DST32).
DECwindows | VMS DECwindows User’s Guide and the VMS DECwindows Motif User’s Guide available from HP.
Domain Name Services (DNS) | Albitz, Paul & Cricket Liu, DNS and Bind, O’Reilly Associates.
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) | Droms, Ralph and Ted Lemon, The DHCP Handbook: Understanding, Deploying, and Managing Automated Configuration Services, 1999 Macmillan Technical Publishing, 201 West 103rd Street, Indianapolis, IN 46290 ISBN 1-57870-137-6
Ethernet | Ethernet Data Link Layer and Physical Layer Specifications available from HP or from your Ethernet controller’s hardware documentation.
FDDI | A Primer on FDDI: Fiber Distributed Data Interface available from HP for details about the features, topologies, and components of the FDDI local area network standard.
Gateway Routing Daemon (GATED) | On the World Wide Web, use URLhttp://www.gated.org/
HYPERchannel (HYPERchannel H269 driver hardware) | H269 (Rel. 1.2) Network Adapter Driver for DEC VAX VMS Installation Manual and User’s Guide available from Network Systems Corporation, Minneapolis, MN.
ONC RPC | Programmer’s Guide for details about TCPware’s implementation of ONC RPC.
proNET (Proteon’s token ring) | Operation and Maintenance Manual for the proNET Local Network System available from Proteon Inc., Westborough, MA
Remote magnetic tape service (rmt) | Maintenance Commands section of the SunOS Reference Manual available from Sun Microsystems.
Setting up print queues and initiating print commands on the OpenVMS host | HP’s Guide to Maintaining a VMS System. OpenVMS users can also see the VMS DCL Dictionary, or the DECprint Printing Services User’s Guide.
X.25 | VAX P.S.I. documentation from Hewlett-Packard.

# Hewlett-Packard Documentation

For details on the OpenVMS operating systems, system services, and utilities, see the appropriate Hewlett-Packard documentation.