tnphhbu@dutrun.UUCP (Hans Buurman) (08/23/88)
Some weeks ago there was some mail in one of the newsgroups about uucp connections through ethernet. Can someone advise me on the following: I have a Sun4 with SunOs 3.2 (BSD 4.2). I would like to connect it to a number of 68000 systems with a kind of system 5.2. There is an ethernet connection, with ftp, telnet, rlogin and so on. The almost 5.2 systems have a badly documented bnetmaild daemon which I cannot get to work. I would like to set them up to use some sort of uucp connection. In the recent news people mentioned a uucpd daemon, but it not present on our SUN and from a first look at SunOs 4.0 documentation I gather that it will not come soon. So how do I do it ? I'm sure this problem must have been solved by people. Please mail your solution to: hans@duttnph.uucp or mcvax!dutrun!duttnph!hans Thanks in advance. Hans Buurman Pattern Recognition Group Faculty of Applied Physics Delft University of Technology the Netherlands (put your own disclaimer here).
sechrest@mist.cs.orst.edu (John Sechrest) (08/24/88)
I have been looking at the uucp over ethernet for a while. I am a little confused. I have yet to find a reason why I would want to run uucpd over the ethernet instead of SMTP. It seems that SMTP does what I need it to do. Perhaps someone can enlighten me about what the advantages of uucpd is over using SMTP. John Sechrest
tnphhbu@dutrun.UUCP (Hans Buurman) (08/25/88)
Perhaps I should have added that our 68k machines are no longer supported, because their dealer went out of business. They abviously aren't that good. But they have uucp and no SMTP, and we want to keep using them. So how do I get them to talk to the rest? Hans hans@duttnph or mcvax!dutrun!duttnph!hans