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- From: reece@eco.twg.com (Reece R. Pollack)
- Subject: Re: Decnet Packets over Sun Router ??
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.193824.15759@eco.twg.com>
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- Sender: reece@crash.eco.twg.com (Reece R. Pollack)
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- Reply-To: reece@eco.twg.com (Reece R. Pollack)
- Organization: The Wollongong Group (East Coast Operations)
- References: <1992Jul20.151114.9155@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu> <1992Jul22.203200.28669@tridom.com> <1992Jul22.200123.3530@arizona.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 19:38:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul22.200123.3530@arizona.edu>, leonard@telcom.arizona.edu
- |>| In article <1992Jul20.151114.9155@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu>, redmill@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu (Keith A.
- |>| Redmill) writes:
- |>| |> I have a Sun 4 (IPC) with two ethernet cards running as a router for
- |>| |> a small subnet. I would like to install some vax stations under this
- |>| |> subnet but Decnet packets don't seem to make it through the sun routed
- |>| |> software.
- |>| |>
- |>| |> Can this be done??
- |>There's one more solution which we use here in similar situations:
- |>if the VAXen are running MultiNet, then just set up MultiNet to
- |>encapsulate DECnet IV in TCP/IP. (You also need a friendly
- |>VAX on the backboneward side of the Sun to pull the DECnet
- |>out of the TCP/IP packets and route them onward to the
- |>rest of your DECnet.) A fast, reliable, cheap solution (assuming
- |>you've already got MultiNet!)
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- Or WIN/TCP. The next release (called Pathway for VMS V1.0; don't ask why)
- also supports DECnet over IP.
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- Reece R. Pollack
- Senior Software Engineer
- The Wollongong Group, Inc.
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