henryc@mcs213k.cs.umr.edu (Henry Clark) (03/26/90)
Well, after looking at these answers and talking to DEC support critters,
I believe the following are reasonable answers:
1) Buy a third-party TCP/IP product for VMS (like Wollongong, etc.).
2) Under VMS 5.3 (which we have), you can use an extra cost product called
UCX (Ultrix Connection Software, I believe) to force DecWindows to do
TCP/IP as transport and talk directly to the Sun.
3) The Ultrix machine (B) has a gateway daemon which runs on it which
essentially opens a DECNet socket and a TCP/IP socket and bounces
what it sees on one socket to the other one.
4) In a new version of Open Windows to be released this summer (by Sun),
DECNet client connections will be supported.
Well, we'll probably do (2), but have to pay more money :-(.
Thanks to everyone who responded (a list is appended).
Henry
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