jmg@cernvax.UUCP (jmg) (08/15/86)
OK, this question ought to go to Bridge Corporation, but I don't have any mail address for them. We have been loaned a CS/1-SNA, which we are trying to make work. Despite the large volume of documentation we are getting nowhere fast. Therefore, can anyone answer some simple questions. (BTW, it is the TCP/IP version). 1. I expected the CS/1 to contain a board with a single SDLC connector. Instead, it has a 4-port standard SDLC board. Is this correct? 2. Assuming that the answer to 1. is yes, is the default port setting correct? Also, does that mean that I can have several different 3725 lines (even to different machines)? 3. Am I right in assuming that the asynchronous console attached onto the console port for sysgen and other utilities cannot be used for the normal system utilities (setting rotaries, showing names etc.) after the CS/1 is booted? Can I either attach a synchronous console to one of the SDLC connectors to do this? Alternatively, can I add in an asynchronous board to use the asynchronous terminal? 4. How does one map the virtual ports !32-!55 to the physical ports? This is mentioned in the documentation on sysgenning, but the system which we have does not seem to match the documentation (have you heard that one before?). 5. Since the virtual ports seem to have an associated terminal type, if I want to connect from my VT100 on a separate CS/100 to our IBM does the CS/1 ask me what type of terminal I have? This is mentioned (unclearly) in the documentation, but nothing seems to stop me selecting any virtual port in the CS/1. 6. What else ought I to have asked in order to make life smoother? Thanks in advance for any answers. Mike Gerard
jmg@cernvax.UUCP (jmg) (08/22/86)
My thanks to those that came to my help, including our local country support. With that aid, plus reading the correct part of the up-to-date version of the correct manuals, it works fine. Our problems came in part from having a special setup, including "funny" european terminals. As a separate, but linked, issue, we are interlinking the Ethernet TCP/IP/Telnet world with the CS/1-SNA (TCP) and with our Gandalf (Micom-like) circuit-switch via a CS/1(00). This last part raises interesting problems in that one has no a priori knowledge of the host/terminal characteristics for the asynchronous lines on the CS/100. If anybody has actually done this I would be interested to know whether it requires any particular constraints. Sufficient unto the day is the satisfaction thereof (misquotation).