ins_adjb@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Daniel Jay Barrett) (06/25/88)
I've been trying to get DNET working between my Amiga 1000 and a UNIX machine. The way our campus network is set up is making it difficult to get results. Can anyone help? The path from my Amiga modem to the UNIX host is: A1000 --> modem --> PACX multiplexor --> DECserver200 term. server --> UNIX The problem is that the DECserver keeps seeing "Unknown characters" whenever I type anything to it, so I cannot log onto UNIX. Can anyone suggest what might be wrong? Thanks. -- Dan Barrett ins_adjb@jhunix.UUCP barrett@cs.jhu.edu
ca063@unocss.UUCP (Thomas Davis) (06/30/88)
From article <6593@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>, by ins_adjb@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Daniel Jay Barrett): > > I've been trying to get DNET working between my Amiga 1000 and > a UNIX machine. The way our campus network is set up is making it > difficult to get results. Can anyone help? > I have the same problem, only UNO uses DECserver's 100. I thought "simple, I'll just another terminal program to login, get to the UNIX machine, and THEN switch to DNET." Guess what. I find out it don't work. Why? (here's my current guesses (partly based on mail with Matt D.)) DNET uses 7 bits, EVEN parity. LAT server's (around here) are set for 8 bits, no parity. The modems also are set for 8 bits, no parity. I haven't tried DNET on a direct link, since that means tearing the system apart, hualing it about 10 miles in a car, trudging across campus, just to see if it's the modems, or the LAT's. So, I thought, let's call in with Handshake set to 7E1, and see what happens. No problems. (IE, I can login to the local VMS and Ultrix nodes.) Brainstorm, let's set the modem to ignore DTR, and call in with Handshake, get into Ultrix, and THEN get out of Handshake, into DNET. No problem, DNET comes up, and I can run only 1 thing, and the rest is hung. Results? I've given up on running DNET on LAT servers until I've got several reasons to bring the Amiga in and see if it is the LAT's or the modems. Now, I am also open to suggestions on what to try. I would look at the manuals for the DECserver's, but they are guarded like classified documents around here.. -- Internet : ca063%unocss.unl.edu@RELAY.CS.NET | Thomas Davis BitNet : conslt16@unoma1 | Consultant, Campus Computing UUCP : unocss!ca063 | U. of Neb. @ Omaha, NE