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- From: rbn@ralph.rtpnc.epa.gov (Bob Boyd)
- Subject: Re: Wanrouter-500 with X.25, Decnet, IP, PAD
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.173519.13561@rtpnc.epa.gov>
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- References: <pista.147.716020139@aszi.sztaki.hu>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 17:35:19 GMT
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- pista@aszi.sztaki.hu (Tetenyi Istvan) writes:
- > Dear Colleagues,
- >
- >
- > We have recently bought a Wanrouter-500 Dec equipment. The router is
- > connected to an ethernet and to X.25. On the ethernet we use DECNET and
- > TCP/IP. A VAX 5100 (risc) machine is also connected to the network.
- > Basically this configuration is typical in three other places in
- > Hungary.
- >
- > Colleagues from DEC state the following:
- > Either:
- > the wanrouter software provides:
- > PAD/X.25, DLM/X.25, OSI/X.25 directly.
- > But (!) it cannot route TCP/IP over X.25 without the help of
- > the VAX 5100 with the installation of a DECNET/IP gateway software.
- > Or:
- > The wanrouter provides:
- > DLM/X.25, OSI/X.25, IP/X.25
- > But there is no PAD (X.3, X.28, X.29) access at all.
- >
- > What we really wanted was or is:
- > OSI/X.25, PAD/X.25, IP/X.25, Decnet(DLM)/X.25.
- >
- > We could either have DECNET or DECNET/OSI etc.
- >
-
- To my knowledge the least expensive box that will do all of what you want
- is the NIS500 or the NIS600 unless DEC has come out with something else
- recently that I haven't heard about yet.
- --
- Bob Boyd
- rbn@ralph.rtpnc.epa.gov
- Unisys/EPA
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