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- From: nhaldar@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Neil A Haldar)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Indigo-IBM Netting Summary (longish)
- Message-ID: <9207220329.AA13818@top.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 03:29:39 GMT
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- In response to my question on IBM PC/Indigo networking, here's a summary pf the
- responses I've received... thanks to the netters for their help :)
-
- >From panisset@Thunder.McRCIM.McGill.EDU Tue Jul 21 22:13:39 1992
-
- What do you mean by "an IBM"? PC/PS2, AS/400, RS/6000, mainframe?...
-
- Anyway, in all these cases, the answer is yes, since the TCP/IP network
- protocol which is used by the IRIX operating system on your Indigo has
- been implemented for all these systems. So all you need is an Ethernet
- card for your IBM machine, TCP/IP software and you should be talking.
-
- Assuming for an instant that you meant PC/PS2, there are a number of
- TCP/IP solutions available. Commercial ones include TCP/IP for DOS from
- IBM, Sun's excellent PC/NFS and PC-TCP from FTP Software.
- There are also a number of free/public domain solutions. Most of these
- are based on the concept of a "packet driver" which talks to your Ethernet
- interface. There are freely-available packet drivers for just about every
- type of Ethernet board available. Look for them on wuarchive.wustl.edu
- in the /mirrors/msdos/... directory.
-
- Once you have a packet driver talking to your Ethernet board, you will then
- need software to control it. WinQVTNet will do this under Windows for
- instance. Again, look on wuarchive.wustl.edu for this stuff. Note that
- since DOS is a single-tasking operating system, you are usually limited
- to outgoing TCP/IP services (i.e. you will be able to login from your
- PC to your Indigo, but not the reverse). If you run a multi-tasking
- operating system on your PC (such as OS/2), then you have more options
- (under TCP/IP for OS/2 from IBM, you can even use NFS to allow the Indigo
- to access the disk on your PC directly).
-
- ----
- From: ian@lassen.wpd.sgi.com (Ian Clements)
- In comp.sys.sgi you write:
-
- > [my question deleted]
-
- Yes, it is. If you're talking about a PC, there's Sun's PC-NFS product.
- Combined with the right Ethernet card for the PC, the Indigo makes a nice
- server.
-
- IBM mainframes can also do TCP over Ethernet. SGI boxes can also talk
- 5080 and 3270 (or 3270 over 5080).
-
- ian@sgi.com, 415/390-3410 | Towards the beans! Towards the beans!
-
- ----
-
- From: Stephen Bohus <clr@dgp.toronto.edu>
-
- > [my question deleted
-
- Yes. We have seven SGIs hooked up together along with an IBM AT and
- a Mac all happily taking to each other. You will need (1) an ethernet
- board for your Iris. If you just want to connect one IBM to an Indigo, the
- easiest (and cheapest) network you can do is to set up a thinwire ethernet
- network between the two machines. You will need an $85 thinwire ethernet
- transceiver (this converts the standard thickwire ethernet at the back of
- your Indigo to a thinwire ethernet signal). [make sure that the ethernet board
- for the IBM has a thinwire BNC output]. Then all you do is connect the IBM
- to the Indigo via a coax cable (at $.25 a foot), put a terminator on both
- ends of this cable, and you're off and running.
- You will need software to talk from the Indigo to the IBM. If all you
- want to do is to transfer data over, then you should get hold of NCSA Telnet
- on the IBM (this lets you rapidly FTP data back and forth between the machines)
- .
- For a more transparent network, NFS is available for the Indigo and for the IBM
- (from a third party source for the IBM) and this will let each of the machines
- see the other's hard disk.
- If you only want a very cheap way to send data over to a pc, then all
- you need is a NULL modem cable and a piece of software that sends data
- over the line using a standard transfer protocol like Kermit or Xmodem.
- The maximum baud setting for the Indigo (I think) is 38,400 baud, and this is
- slow when you have to transfer megabytes of data back and forth.
-
- ----
-
- Thanks for all the replies and the help :) I appreciate it!!!! :)
-
-
- Cheers all,
- Neil
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