| Company
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Accelerated Technology
www.atinucleus.com
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InterNiche Technologies
www.iniche.com
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Pacific Softworks
www.pacificsw.com
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Elmic Systems, Inc
www.elmic.com
|
U.S. Software
www.ussw.com
|
| Protocols offered
*
|
|
|
|
|
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| IP/UDP/ICMP/ARP
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| TCP
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| BOOTP
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RARP
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| DHCP
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IGMP
|
Yes
|
Available 2Q99
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| TELNET server
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| TELNET client
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FTP server
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FTP client
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| TFTP server
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Available 6/99
|
Yes
|
| TFTP client
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Available 6/99
|
Yes
|
| DNS
|
Client only
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Available 6/99
|
Yes
|
| SNMP V1
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SNMP V2
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SNMP V3
|
No
|
No
|
Expected late 2Q99
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SMTP
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| POP
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTTP server
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTTP client
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes, as an
unsupported item
|
| NTP
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| NFS
|
Available via third party partner
|
No
|
Yes, as an unsupported item
|
No
|
No
|
| LDAP
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SYSLOG
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RPC
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| SLIP
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PPP
|
Yes
|
Client & server, dial-on-demand, PAP & CHAP; Hayes modem dialer code
|
Yes
|
Client & Server with CHAP & PAP support
|
Yes
|
| RIP
|
Yes
|
RIP 1 and RIP 2
|
RIP 1 and RIP 2
|
Listener only
|
No
|
| OSPF
|
No
|
Available 2Q99
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| IGP
|
No
|
Available 2Q99
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BGP
|
No
|
Available 2Q99
|
Yes (but not fully integrated
into the stack)
|
No
|
No
|
| NAT
|
Yes
|
Support network address & port translation (NAPT), FTP, static port mapping.
|
Expected 7/99
|
No
|
No
|
| IS-IS
|
No
|
Available 2Q99
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Mobile IP
|
No
|
Available 3Q99
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Operating systems
|
Nucleus PLUS, Nucleus C++
|
VRTX, ThreadX, DOS, DOS4GW, super loop, µC/OS, AMX, RTXC
|
Fusion scheduler/timer, AMX,µC/OS, Nucleus RTX and PLUS, MQX, Phar-Lap DOS Extender, PSOS, RTXC, ThreadX, VRTX, VxWorks
|
Proprietary, AMX, µC/OS, ThreadX, VRTX, SuperTask, RTXC
|
VRTX, REALOS, MTOS, SuperTask, iRMX, Hitachi HI-SH7, Hitachi HI SH77, Tron-Task, Motorola PPSM, TronTask 3
|
| Driver/network interface support
|
Ethernet, PPP, SLIP
|
Lance, MC68360, PowerPC 860, packet driver, open data-link interface (ODI)
|
3Com 3c509, AMD LANCE79c960, 79c961A, Mace, Fujitsu 86964, 83932, I596, and more
|
Ethernet and serial
|
3C503, 3C509, 3C90X, AMD AMi86ES, AMD AM7990, Crystal CS8900, and more
|
| Available stack
|
Sockets
|
Sockets, InterNiche “lightweight” API
|
Sockets, Direct Windows DLL
|
BSD Sockets 4.4
|
Berkeley sockets, dynamic protocol interface (simple API)
|
| Licensing options and evaluation policies
|
License options: one CPU, one product, one development facility is the basic model; full source code included; no royalty charges; 15-day evaluation licenses available
|
Source code license with 30-day evaluation program
|
Licenses are one-time fee, royalty free,
your choice of single or multiple processor types, and for single or multiple product line applications
|
Per product family license; no evaluations
|
Contact vendor
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* Note that vendors group protocols differently. Most vendors offer a base protocol suite with optional groups of additional protocols. Contact vendor or see vendor’s Web site for specifics on protocols offered, and how they are packaged.
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