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- From: hpeyerl@novatel.cuc.ab.ca (Herb Peyerl)
- Subject: Re: Need Some Advice..
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.172035.2396@novatel.cuc.ab.ca>
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- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:20:35 GMT
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- Jinfu Chen (chen@digital.sps.mot.com) wrote:
- : This is true when all the Apollos are connected via ethernet. However, in
- : most Apollos installation, all nodes are connected via ATR and probably only
- : one or few gateway nodes have direct interface to an ethernet. Therefore NFS
- : traffic on non-ethernet gateway node still goes through DDS on ATR. I could
- : be wrong if TCP/IP packet can be transferred directly as ATR tokens.
-
- We have about 60% of our nodes on Ethernet and 40% on 3 different Token
- Rings each of which have their own gateway to the ethernet...
-
- Yes, gateways *do* route IP packets.
-
- If you want to make the assumption that IP packets are encapsulated within
- DDS packets, then in order to make HP-UX reside on ATR, HP must then have
- ported DDS to HP-UX on 400's and 700's... That must mean 700's have
- node-ids. Somehow I doubt that.
-
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