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- From: adelman@TGV.COM (Kenneth Adelman)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
- Subject: Re: Multinet Over DECnet
- Message-ID: <921229210919.20c0013b@TGV.COM>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 05:09:19 GMT
- Organization: Info-Multinet<==>Vmsnet.Networks.Tcp-Ip.Multinet Gateway
- Lines: 36
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- > Multinet Colleagues,
- > Some questions for your kind attention (thanks in advance):
-
- > (1) Can disks on a SUN IPC be served to an Alpha AXP4000-610 running OpenVMS
- > and vice versa using Multinet NFS over DECnet? The SUN would be on the DECnet
- > cable also. Currently we have 2 SUN IPCs sharing NFS mounted disks over a
- > DECnet Ethernet cable so I expect the answer is "yes".
-
- Yes, BUT you're running MultiNet NFS over IP. What you run the IP
- over is your business, and it could include the Ethernet directly
- (which is what I would expect you do to a SUN), or it could include IP
- encapsulated in DECnet running over an arbitrary DECnet network. I
- don't think that SUN has an IP over DECnet that would interoperate
- with the MultiNet IP over DECnet.
-
- > (2) If so then is there anything to be especially careful of? By the way, LAT
- > and LAVC are running on the same cable as well.
-
- Nothing particular to that configuration. If they are both on the
- same Ethernet network, run TCP/IP over the Ethernet on both machines
- and DECnet (although it runs on the same cable) isn't involved.
-
- > (3) Also, are OpenVMS Volume-shadowed disks accessible via Multinet NFS?
-
- Yes.
-
- > (4) Likewise any problem with bound volume sets?
-
- No problems (not in MultiNet V2.2 and later).
-
- Note that Alpha AXP systems require MultiNet V3.2. V3.2 will be
- shipping to all customers under support starting January 15th, and
- we expect to take about 3 weeks to get all of the updates out. If you
- have an AXP system now, we can get you a pre-release copy.
-
- Ken
-