>At 01:20 PM 2/23/99 -0800, you wrote:
>> So, one way to have the Pro communicate
>>with my network is to have another machine that talks both DECnet and TCP/IP.
>>Apparently, there is a Linux DECnet, but Zane has been having trouble getting
>>it to work. Another possibility is a VAXstation that talks both DECnet and
>>TCP/IP.
Actually where I'm having trouble with DECnet/Linux is talking to
DECnet/RSX-11M, it talks fine to DECnet/VAX VMS.
However, I assume these results mean that Linux can't talk to a Pro380
running POS via DECnet.
>There are DECnets for Mac and PC, of course, although I don't know
>how you're going to do any actual routing as opposed to simple
>file parking. Once upon a time, my company even made a DECnet for
>the Amiga, a licensed port of the Thursby code. (I wrote the
>DECnet mail for the Amiga.) My DEC Pro 350 was once able to talk
>to my Amiga this way, but my knowledge of this has been fogged by time.
Sadly there is now sign of the Amiga version of DECnet anywhere, I did some
serious looking for a copy almost a year ago.
I don't think routing would be an issue as long as you're all in the same
(oh, what do you call it "sub-net" or "region", something like that). Of
course if you've more than 1024 machines, then you'd have a problem, BUT
any hobbiest with that many machines running DECnet HAS a problem :^)
Zane
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Received on Tue Feb 23 1999 - 19:38:22 GMT