perl@pbseps.UUCP (Richard Perlman) (09/22/89)
This is probably a crazy question, but then that's often how new
products are born. In any case... Is there such a thing as a
translating gateway between TCP/IP and XNS? I have a specific
need, as follows: Site a runs TCP/IP and uses telnet to access
remote services on other hosts and terminal servers. Site b is
an XNS terminal server (UB NIU-180 or X.25 gateway), it runs
whatever sort of virtual terminal protocol UB provides with XNS
(whatever protocol you connect to when you type 'connect <host>'
from an NIU-180?).
I would like to use telnet at site a to talk to the server at
site b.
Site a Site b
+-------------+ telnet +---------+ UB xns ? +----------+
| tcp/ip host |=============| gateway |===============| niu-180 |
+-------------+ net A +---------+ net B +----------+
| ethernet ethernet |
my terminal remote service
So in other words (if I still havn't made my point clearly) I
would like the "remote service" attached to the NIU-180 to
appear to me as thought it were running telnet. Got it?
Well, is there such a thing. All reasonable replies accepted!
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