com217v@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (09/12/90)
We have a UNISYS 2200/412 with dual DCP15 comms processors, one of which has an Ethernet interface. The TCP/IP software we have been supplied with by UNISYS has allowed us some telnet functionality. I am looking for anyone who can give some straight forward advice as to the correct way to set it up. Is there anyone out there with UNISYS 2200/DCP15 on the internet using UNISYS DCP LAN Platform 1R1 SteveD. com217v@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au | So long and thanks for all the fish.
wkemmerer@sugar.hackercorp.com (Walter Kemmerer) (09/20/90)
Steve: There are a bunch of sites running the TCP/IP products from Unisys that reside on the Distributed Communications Processor (DCP) family here in the Houston area. There are several layers to the product stack, with the Ethernet Line Module being interfaced to the LAN Platform (DCP-resident) providing just the first (base Ethernet) layer of the game. If you want TCP/IP, there's a TCP/IP Feature that installs into the DCP and uses the LAN Platform to access Ethernet; this same feature will install into the DCP's X.25 Packet Switching Comm Software (PSCS) to provide TCP/IP over comm lines (ala the Defense Data Network). The TCP/IP Feature *also* provides a host and terminal TELNET (NTV) interface, so unisys terminals can go out as TELNET and TELNET terminals can come in and specify XEU names to go into session with. On top of this layer, you're into host software. There is a DDN/1100 product that implements SMTP and FTP, if you need it. If not, you can stay with the DCP products we already mentioned and you're done. Now for the bad news: LAN Platform 1R1 is kinda *old*. I've installed 1R2 and 2R1 versions for other sites, and really strongly recommend that you do the same as 1R1 of any product from anybody tends to be a bit buggy (LAN platform was). Beware that you may encounter level problems; the 2R1 software may require you to upgrade your TELCON (base DCP software) level. Questions: 1. Do you have just the LAN platform or also the TCP/IP Feature? 2. Do you want FTP? (If so, you'll need DDP/1100 *and* DDN/1100!) 3. Do you want SMTP? (If so, you'll need DDN/1100 *and* a database system like DMS/1100 to manage the mailboxes!) 4. What levels are you on (OS/1100, CMS/1100, TELCON, etc.)? 5. How much memory on your DCP/15 with the Ethernet? 6. How much load on your DCP/15 with the Ethernet? I've got some background in this stuff, so if you'd like, please feel free to reply via email and we'll take this discussion offline, or we can leave it here in the clear. Bottom line is that the Unisys offering is pretty neat, and seems to work reasonably well. As for how to configure it, well that's why we all log in and wander through here, eh? Cheers, and hope to hear from you soon. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Walt Kemmerer : I get no kick from the pain, they put electrodes in my Ex-Unisys type : brain, they pop and spark in the rain, but I get no kick now making it : from the pain! independently! : - Theme of the Unisys comm analyst -- wkemmerer@sugar.hackercorp.com | raised native Houstonian! 72737.563@compuserve.com |