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- Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
- Subject: Re: Multinet vs UCX vs POSIX ?
- Message-ID: <9200677@MVB.SAIC.COM>
- From: Mark.Berryman@Mvb.Saic.Com (MUMPS Wizard)
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:08:46 GMT
- References: <1992Nov10.123712.1@uwovax.uwo.ca>
- Organization: Science Applications Int'l, Corp. - Computer systems operation
- Lines: 35
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- brent@uwovax.uwo.ca (Brent Sterner) writes:
- > A few weeks ago I installed POSIX on our VMS 5.5-1 system running
- >Multinet version V3.1 Rev D. Several things happened which has caused
- >me to leave it unstarted for the time being. (POSIX was installed as
- >an experiment; it is not critical for production, though it might be of
- >benefit to some of our clients. The objective was simply to play with
- >the product to see what benefit it might provide, and at what cost.)
- >
- > One problem was that rlogin apparently stopped functioning. (There
- >were some other happenings on the system at the time which may or may
- >not have been causal, but our local Multinet person has indicated there
- >are problems between Multinet and UCX, which is used by POSIX, and I'm
- >inclined to trust this person's judgement in networking matters.)
- >
- > This is a request for guidance. Is there a *reliable* way to integrate
- >(the startup of) POSIX and Multinet to avoid problems with functionality?
- >Once Multinet has been started (as it is at boot time here), is there a
- >safe way to start up POSIX without interfering with existing links? Will
- >a future release of VMS, POSIX, or Multinet reduce the danger enough that
- >I should hold off for now, but try again later? Should I abandon all hope
- >of ever running POSIX on my VMS system?
-
- I have never encountered any problems between Multinet and the portion of UCX
- used by POSIX. I have run Multinet V3.0, V3.1, and the current beta of V3.2
- with POSIX and have never had a single problem with either. I just tried
- rlogin on a couple of systems running both Multinet and POSIX and it worked
- just fine. I start both Multinet and POSIX at boot time.
-
- Note that this only shows that the products do work together. It doesn't say
- anything about your particular system. Did you try booting your system (with
- Multinet starting at boot time), verifying that rlogin works, then starting
- POSIX and verifying that rlogin stopped working?
-
- Mark Berryman
- Mark.Berryman@Mvb.Saic.Com
-