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- From: bytor@milton.u.washington.edu (Jill Patterson)
- Subject: Re: HP MPE NetIPC <-> BSD sockets?
- Message-ID: <bytor.712087406@milton>
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- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 18:03:26 GMT
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- markb@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Mark Bixby) writes:
-
- >The June '92 issue of Interact magazine had an article describing the use of
- >HP's NetIPC product on their MPE/iX operating system to communicate with BSD
- >sockets on remote systems. Is anybody out there doing this? What version(s)
- >of MPE/iX are you running? My HP Sales Rep says that MPE/iX 4.0 is needed,
- >although I'm skeptical. Would any internal HP people like to confirm/deny
- >this? Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks.
-
- Hi, I have successfully implemented the above topic. After a few weeks of
- digging, a few more weeks of calling everybody at HP, and local office people
- and talking to people on the net I was able to do this.
-
- Here is my environment and the tools I am using
-
- SPOCK -> HP3000 Series 980 MPE/XL ver 2.2
- KIRK -> HP3000 Series 950 MPE/XL ver 2.22
-
- PICARD -> 486/33 Server Lan Manager 2.1 Network
- 386/33 -> Workstation
-
- HP's NETIPC
- Microsofts Lan Managers Socket Development Toolkit ver 1.0
-
- Basically myself and a fellow coworker used the source in the JUNE issue
- of INTERACT. Converted the PASCAL Code to COBOL (Not my job thank goodness),
- and used BC++ 3.1 to run the client program on my workstation.
-
- We could get KIRK(Client) to talk to SPOCK(Monitor, Server), and
- my Workstation(Client) to talk to another workstation(Server), but could not
- get my Workstation(Client) to talk to SPOCK(Monitor,Server).
-
-
- After many frustrating weeks, with getting a connection refused error, we
- put a lan analyzer on the network to finde out where our packets were going
- it seemed from the TCP/IP packets that it was getting to SPOCK, and SPOCK
- was sending something back. We decoded the Packet to find out that we were
- connecting to the right port 31001. Well, we couldn't understand what was
- wrong, and after a few more weeks, we finally thought to analyze the traffic
- between SPOCK & KIRK, and found that a programming bug had caused the
- monitor program to look at port 1001, (I guess that\s what you get when you
- convert PASCAL to COBOL). Now we have it working, and are going on to get
- a real TCP/IP program going.
-
- Good Luck
- Mike Lorengo
- using Jill's account
- bytor@milton.u.washington.edu
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- Howard Johnson & Company
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