The global Chaosnet site https://chaosnet.net/ 2026-04-18T11:29:26+00:00 https://chaosnet.net/ https://chaosnet.net/_media/wiki:logo.png text/html 2026-03-22T16:38:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://chaosnet.net/chaos-dns?rev=1774197511&do=diff Chaosnet DNS DNS.Chaosnet.NET (with IP addresses corresponding to the currently three Chaosnet name servers) acts as a root DNS server for the CHaosnet class. It currently hosts the following domains: * CH-ADDR.NET, which contains Chaosnet address mappings (corresponding to text/html 2025-11-04T07:29:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://chaosnet.net/global?rev=1762241390&do=diff The global Chaosnet This describes the global, interconnected, Chaosnet. If you just want to set up a local Chaosnet, please see here for instructions. To see what hosts are up on the global Chaosnet, see here. To see who is logged in on Chaosnet hosts, see here. 1. Routing text/html 2021-01-31T10:34:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://chaosnet.net/lispm-dhcp?rev=1612089267&do=diff DHCP for the LMI Lambda (and perhaps other Lisp Machines). Copyright (c) 2017, Bjorn Victor (bjorn@victor.se). Issue: most(?) networked computers are in these days mobile and connecting to many different networks. Therefore modern networks are usually dynamically configured, and hosts don't need to know their IP address, netmask, default router, text/html 2022-01-13T18:15:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://chaosnet.net/lispm-dns?rev=1642097737&do=diff DNS resolver for LMI Lambda and TI Explorer Lisp Machines The implementation can be downloaded as a tape file for the LambdaDelta emulator. See here for a possibly newer version. If you want it in other formats, ask me (bjorn@victor.se). The Lambda portion of the -READ-ME-.TEXT file can be found below. text/html 2025-11-04T07:28:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://chaosnet.net/local?rev=1762241336&do=diff Setting up a local private Chaosnet If you want to play around with Chaosnet, connecting two or more of your emulated systems, without connecting to the Global Chaosnet, the following is intended to be helpful. See also example configs for cbridge. 1. Background Chaosnet address are 16 bits long. The most significant 8 bits are the subnet, and the 8 least significant bits are the host address on that subnet. Chaosnet addresses are traditionally (and always) written in octal. There is no dot s… text/html 2023-11-22T15:28:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://chaosnet.net/protocol?rev=1700666889&do=diff Chaosnet protocol details The original spec, MIT AIM 628, is sometimes not totally clear, and partly out-of-date (e.g. for the link layer and down). What is below might perhaps not be clearer, but more succinct. The real definition is in the behaviour of the implementations - text/html 2023-01-01T11:02:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://chaosnet.net/resources?rev=1672570938&do=diff Chaosnet resources Other source of information include * MIT AI Memo 628: Chaosnet, by David A. Moon (webified here) * The Computer History Wiki article on Chaosnet * A discussion in comp.protocols.tcp-ip * Chaosnet support in bind9, the standard DNS server * Local Networking at the M.I.T. Computer Laboratories: A User's View, by Marek W. Lugowski, Indiana University Computer Science Department Technical Report 173, 1985. text/html 2025-11-04T07:27:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://chaosnet.net/running?rev=1762241234&do=diff How to run Chaosnet To use Chaosnet, you need to take a few steps. 1. Picking a Chaosnet address If you are never ever going to connect to the Global Chaosnet (which would be a shame), pick a 16-bit number where both octets are non-zero, and translate it to octal, which is the base used everywhere. text/html 2026-04-15T11:31:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://chaosnet.net/start?rev=1776252702&do=diff Chaosnet [Chaosnet transceiver] This site is about the computer communications protocol Chaosnet. This page gives some background information. See also other pages for * how to run Chaosnet in different environments, * some notes about Chaosnet DNS, * info about the Global Chaosnet, * how to set up a local Chaosnet, text/html 2021-05-17T15:44:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://chaosnet.net/tr173?rev=1621266283&do=diff LOCAL NETWORKING AT THE M.I.T. COMPUTER LABORATORIES: A User's View Marek W. Lugowski Indiana University Computer Science Department Technical Report #173 November 1984 - June 1985 Abstract: The user's view of the computing environment at the