glowell@portia.Stanford.EDU (gary lowell) (08/13/90)
Hello - I would like to use sockets to talk between MPE XL and HP-UX. My SE told me that this could be done with NetIPC on the MPE XL side, and ordinary sockets on the HP-UX side. I'm trying to avoid HP's NS protcol as the Unix side may not always be HP-UX. The SE also told me that there was a white-paper written by someone at Colorado Networks Division that gave all the gory details. The SE didn't have a copy of the paper, and didn't have time to chase it down. The paper has been given to customers in the past. I would greatly appreciate any leads as to where to look, or who to contact regarding this paper. Thanks, Gary Lowell glowell@portia.stanford.edu (415) 369-2303
coolidge@speaker.sgi.com (Don Coolidge) (08/17/90)
In article <1990Aug12.234727.8281@portia.Stanford.EDU> glowell@portia.Stanford.EDU (gary lowell) writes: >Hello - > >I would like to use sockets to talk between MPE XL and HP-UX. My >SE told me that this could be done with NetIPC on the MPE XL side, >and ordinary sockets on the HP-UX side. I'm trying to avoid HP's >NS protcol as the Unix side may not always be HP-UX. Well, NS isn't a protocol - it's HP's proprietary Network Services applications (RFT, or dscopy, and RFA, or netunam) using NetIPC for an API. What actually communicates are the peer entities - IP<->IP, TCP<->TCP, and application<->application. An application running over NetIPC (say, FTP) can talk perfectly well with its peer running over sockets, as long as they both have a TCP/IP stack in the kernel. That's the case for the HP3000 MPE operating systems, so a NetIPC-using application on a 3000 can talk to its peer application on any un*x box (subject to the usual intervendor compatibility warts). So you can write your NetIPC-using application with no fear of being stuck with something other than HP-UX on the other side. It shouldn't be too hard; the system calls are (mostly) quite similar. Besides, since NetIPC is the _only_ API on a 3000, you don't have any choice. >Thanks, >Gary Lowell >glowell@portia.stanford.edu >(415) 369-2303 Don Coolidge coolidge@speaker.wpd.sgi.com