JMS@ARIZMIS.BITNET (Joel Headroom) (09/19/86)
>Suppose you have a VAX cluster and VAX PSI implemented as >multihost and PSI ACCESS on the other nodes. > >1) How can you access a specific node from a public node? >Do you specify the DTE address of one node, and SET HOST to another? >or.. Can you use the userdata field somehow?? You can use userdata, or virtually anything else, but I recommend using subaddress. For example, our DTE number is 3132123456. To get to node 14 in the network, specify a subaddress of 14. This makes things easier. For each node in the DECnet we're connected to PSI/PSI Access knows about the DECnet node number as a subaddress. The proper command here is NCP> set module x25-server dest vax14 node vax14 object 36 - priority 128 subaddress 14 NOTE especially the priority setting (MUST BE GREATER THAN FF, the X25-server going to X29 on the local node!). >2) $ SET HOST/X29 DTE-address >accesses one node.. but can you specify a specific node?? >ie. the converse of 1). > >something like > $ SET HOST/X29 20012345::SAM >where SAM is the node I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Clearly if they're all in the same network, the appropriate command is $ SET HOST, not $ SET HOST/X29. Are you thinking of outgoing connects from PSI Access hosts through the PSI host into the X.25 network? For the PSI Access hosts, the X25-ACCESS module knows the remote networks, and the node they're connected to. You can use the network%dte-address in your $ SET HOST/X29 to get out into the X.25 network. Is that what you're looking for? jms +-------------------------------+ | Joel M Snyder | BITNET: jms@arizmis.BITNET | Univ of Arizona Dep't of MIS | ArizoNET: MRSVAX::JMS | Tucson, Arizona 85721 | Pseudo-PhoneNET: (602) 621-2748 +-------------------------------+ (std. disclaimer in re: nobody taking anything I say seriously) --*> "Wherever you go ... there you are." -- Buckaroo Bonzai <*--