Berkeley Network

(B-NET) Top level Unix Ethernet software developed at the

University of California at Berkeley. There are no formal

specifications but UCB's 4.2BSD Unix implementation on the

VAX is the de facto standard. Distributed by Unisoft.

Includes net.o driver routines for specific hardware, pseudottys, daemons, hostname command to set/get name, /etc/hosts

database of names and Internet addresses of other hosts,

/etc/hosts.equiv host-wide database to control remote access,

.rhosts per user version of hosts.equiv.

UCB's implementation of the Internet Protocol includes

trailers to improve performance on paged memory management

systems such as VAXen. These trailers are an exception to

the Internet Protocol specification.