jas@goya.dit.upm.es (Jose Ramon Alonso Sotorrio) (04/30/89)
As I said in my previous posting about the Open Desktop conference, there was going to be another one on comms under SCO, and again, here's my $2E-2 worth of notes taken during the conference. It was held by Pedro Beitra, from SCO London, here in Madrid last Wednesday. A general overview was given to: - IBM mainframe conectivity. - Xenix-net - TCP/IP - OSI This is what was said about them (and looked 'new'): - SCO Unipath 3270 This is well known: emulates one of those cluster controllers, and your ordinary xenix terminals appear as 3270 screens to some IBM mainframe, and have sessions on it. - Xenix-net This is the first of three networking option, and the one primarily designed to connect to msdos pc's. Provides file-transfer, remote sessions, and pseudo transparent directory access. (use of '//'). suports: - ibm pc network adapter - sytek 6120 - Async-net (slip ala xenix-net) - excelan, starlan. - TCP/IP provides: - slip - smtp - ftp - rcommands. Two versions: runtime (binaries) and developers (+ libraries). subsistems: - 3com 3C501, 3C503 - Western Digital WD 8003 E - slip - token ring Also announced, suport for Smart Cards with tcp/ip on board. (intel mentioned). - SCO NFS As of SUN's standard. Requires SCO Unix 3.2 and tcp/ip. - SCO ISO provided: binaries supplied: - complete ISO stack. - ftam - mail - x400 - file transfer. - mts - rlogin capability. - libraries. - admin. Posibly available in runtime/developer versions. ------ The overall impresion was that, appart from unipath, which is on its own, SCO does not want to be caught supporting 3 different incompatible systems, and so have planed for (should it be neccesary) full conectivity among them. It was shown to us how the 3 networking methods could co-exist and xooperate using each other services. Much interest was raised by the ISO product. It had been developed with some third party whose name I couldn't catch (tcp/ip was developed with Lachman and Asociates(sp??)). In fact, after this presentacion, the two first questions where about ISO's x25. Post-conference questions. -------------------------- (Again, NOT quoting) Q) You haven't mentioned X25. Is it supported? A) Yes, but not yet available. We are working on it. Q) How advanced is that work? A) We are testing it. Q) Your tcp/ip product suports smtp. Also sendmail? A) From SCO Unix 3.2, mmdf (?) will be supported. (Here he looks to the SCO people and asks: - When are we shiping Unix 3.2? - 3.2 will begin volume shiping begining of July. Q) Regarding NFS and the file system, will there be simbolic links? A) Yes. Q) On the ISO product, are working aplications of ftam, x400, etc included? A) Yes. -------------------- And this was it. Hope you found something useful in it. All the usual disclaimers aply, flame me only for my posibly bad grammar :-) jose. -- Dept. of Telematic Systems Engineering. Technical U of Madrid. jas@dit.upm.es jas@goya.uucp mcvax!goya!jas ETSI Telecomunicacion. tlf. +34 1 449 5762, x325 Ciudad Universitaria fax +34 1 243 2077 28040 Madrid Spain telex 47430 ETSIT E Do practice methodical doubt