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- Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
- Subject: Re: Pathworks TCP/IP on VAX with CMU/TEK
- Message-ID: <724714203.126400.VANCE@TGV.COM>
- From: VANCE@TGV.COM (L. Stuart Vance)
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 13:30:03 -0800 (PST)
- Organization: TGV, Incorporated
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- >We have the CMU/TEK TCP/IP package running on our VAX cluster. We are running
- >Pathworks for VMS with DECnet, without problem. We wished to try out the TCP/IP
- >option of Pathworks and installed the files on the server without problem.
- >
- >The problem is that the NBNS TCP Netbios process crashes upon startup claiming
- >it can't find the hostname. DEC's answer is to use their UCX product as the
- >TCP/IP layer. Does anyone else have experience of getting Pathworks TCP/IP to
- >work with products other than UCX?
-
- We've gotten PATHWORKS to run over MultiNet via our UCX emulation. PATHWORKS
- only supports UCX, so if you do want to run it over UCX, you must run it over
- something that emulates UCX. Many of the other IP for VMS vendors also support
- a UCX emulation mode.
-
- Regards,
- -----Stuart
-