cross platform networking in tcp/ip + tools

[Grayh]

what are the various tools used to support cross platform networking in tcp/ip

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

What are you trying to accomplish?

What exactly do you mean "cross platform networking?" Do you mean copying files between systems? (FTP, SFTP, SCP,NFS, SAMBA could all be useful.) Do you mean connecting to different servers? (SSH, Telnet could be useful.) Do you mean something else?

Please state your requirements better, if possible, and you will get a more specific answer.

[Steven Schweda]

TCP/IP _is_ cross-platform networking. I'm
writing this on a VMS workstation. On what
are you reading it? (I'm guessing not on
another VMS workstation.)

> What exactly do you mean [...]

A fair question.

[Grayh]

I actually ment both transferring files b/w servers and connecting to servers..

Thanks Patrick...

I was thinking what else could be the networking tools that use tcp/ip ...

[OldSchool]

take a look at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol

TCP/IP are a set of standards for the transmission of data. *many* tools use them, and as noted above, those tools serve a variety of purposes.

as for what "various tools" support cross-platform networking, perhaps a more useful question would be "what tools are used on platform X to support function Y"