dave@astra.necisa.oz (Dave Horsfall) (08/26/87)
Hello all. Forgive me if this has been asked (and answered!) before but...
Are TCP/IP and NFS available under Xenix, specifically SCO?
And almost forgot, what window software is available?
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TEL: +61 2 438-3544 FAX: 439-7036 munnari!astra.necisa.oz!davepeter@citcom.UUCP (Peter Klosky) (08/28/87)
> Are TCP/IP and NFS available under Xenix, specifically SCO?
We are running tcp/ip on our xenix pc's; we had to get ethernet cards
from Micom-Interlan and also a driver to install in the kernel.
We spent about $1200 US per workstation. Very good performance.
You didn't mention what revision level of SCO you are running; it makes
a difference. It is not clear the protocol software has been released
under 2.2 xenix; at any rate we are running 2.1.3 here.
Another firm, Excelan, makes a pc-bus ethernet card and software
product quite similar to Micom-Interlan.
As far as NFS goes, this looks like a problem. SCO is getting a
distributed file system going, but they have ignored the nfs standards
in favor of some standard I've never heard of before. At any rate,
it would appear that it is possible to run this alternate protocol
between xenix machines at least, and yet another vendor offers an
implementation of the xenix-net protocol that will run under a Sun
system, as well as others. Phone numbers:
Excelan- ethernet cards, tcp/ip s/w: Joe Rohde 408-434-2358
Micom-Interlan- ethernet cards, tcp/ip sw: Jim Miller 301-670-1123
Syntax s/w- SMB server s/w, xenix-net: Dan Vaughn 206-833-2525
p.s. The alternative to running an ethernet is using async lines;
not a good deal. In our case we have only one async port per pc,
so we ran uucp for file transfer and remote execution. We could
also run remote login via tip/cu from one side; of course the
users would always argue about which side would run the getty, and
which side would get to log in. In short, it was a systems admin
nightmare. The ethernet allows many logins, and the file transfer speed
is amazingly fast. If you are putting in a new computer, do not use
rs-232 if you can avoid it. It's just two slow.
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seismo!vrdxhq!baskin!citcom!peter (703) 689-2800 x 235davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) (08/28/87)
In article <241@astra.necisa.oz> dave@astra.necisa.oz (Dave Horsfall) writes: |Hello all. Forgive me if this has been asked (and answered!) before but... | |Are TCP/IP and NFS available under Xenix, specifically SCO? You can get TCP/IP from Excelan. I'm told it doesn't run under the latest 2.2.x release. It runs fine under 2.1.3. I have looked for a version of NFS for Xenix. I would really like PC-NFS for Xenix, since we have dozens of public filesystems on our net. It would be more useful to have them available under a real filesystem (particularly Xenix/386). ________________________________________ | | | SUN Microsystems - are you listening? | |________________________________________| -- bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) {chinet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me
dave@astra.necisa.oz (Dave Horsfall) (08/31/87)
(My request for Xenix networking, and various replies)
Thanks, all, for replying. Looks like Excelan is it, but no NFS yet.
As it turned out, I went to the AUUG conference last week (Australian
Unix-systems User Group) and guess who were there but the Excelan
distributors! Not only that, their office is practically around the
corner from where I work... I really must get out and about more.
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Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU) ACSnet/CSNET: dave@astra.necisa.oz
NEC Information Systems Aust. ARPA: dave%astra.necisa.oz@seismo.css.gov
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TEL: +61 2 438-3544 FAX: 439-7036 munnari!astra.necisa.oz!davetoczycki@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (09/13/88)
I'd like to find out if there is any difference in networking
a Compaq 386/20 with about 5 terminals using XENIX as compared
to using a mini (i.e. VAX, Sequent, etc).
Does the networking slow the 386 down a lot? and does
XENIX slow it down even more?
Any XENIX networking information is helpful.
Thanx,
Bob
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