garvey@cmic.UUCP (Joe Garvey) (05/30/90)
I need to connect a DEC (decnet) system to an HP unix system. My objective
is to make the remote login, and file transfer services work.
I can make the required physical connections of the LAN's involved...
However, I assume a direct connection won't work. I need some kind of
protocol tranlator in the middle.
For a number of reasons, each machine must think it's working in its native
services (decnet or arpa-berkeley).
Can I use a PC and some netware?
Does someone make a translator?
Can I directly connect the two networks, and put some software package on
my HP (9000/370)? It's out of the question to add software to the
DEC machines (PDP/RSTS) ;-(.
I've got some PC's and terminal servers using the arpa-berkeley tools, what
about them?
Am I crazy? :-)
E-mail response preferred. ... normal stuff about summarizing ...
Thanx.
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408-720-6439 (let it ring) 800-824-7814 (inside CA)kph@dirt.cisco.com (Kevin Paul Herbert) (05/30/90)
The easiest thing to do would be to get a DECstation 3100 (or something else running Ultrix) and use the DECnet-Internet gateway software. I don't know many product specifics, but I know that you can use it for remote login and file transfer. You should also be running at least DECnet/E V4.0 (RSTS/E V9.3) as previous versions had some problems dealing with Ultrix, if I recall correctly. I've always thought it would be *fun* to put up TCP/IP on RSTS, though. It really wouldn't be that hard to do for someone that was good with RSTS monitor internals. Kevin
tihor@acf4.NYU.EDU (Stephen Tihor) (05/30/90)
A DEC ultrix machine has the necessary software although some pieces may require licences now.