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- From: rvenable@helix.nih.gov (Richard M. Venable)
- Subject: Re: Need Some Advice..
- Message-ID: <1992Nov14.053456.28937@alw.nih.gov>
- Summary: ATR lives!
- Sender: postman@alw.nih.gov (AMDS Postmaster)
- Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
- References: <5c4e8b79.1b2f0@digital.sps.mot.com> <1992Nov13.172035.2396@novatel.cuc.ab.ca>
- Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 05:34:56 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov13.172035.2396@novatel.cuc.ab.ca> hpeyerl@novatel.cuc.ab.ca (Herb Peyerl) writes:
- >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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- Actually, I understand that although ATR cards are available for 700's, they
- use a different protocol than standard Apollo DNxxxx* nodes, and a 9000/400
- series node is needed to translate protocols. I assume at least the packet
- structure is different, but don't know all the details. I hope to find out
- soon; if anyone has any more complete information ...
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