CARL@SCU.BITNET (CARL FUSSELL) (01/21/88)
Perhaps some of you have faced this already and can help or maybe
point me towards a more appropriate list.
We are running IBM PCs/ATs on a "thin net" with 3COM cards to connect
to our VAX... all works fine. In the last couple days however,
as a result of hardware additions to a couple of our ATs, to change
the configuration of the 3COM cards and DECnet DOS.
We would like to configure the 3COM card to use a different interrupt
request (default is 3 and we want to change it) and this is supported
by the 3COM card. However, I can find no where in the doc for decnet
dos if it is possible to tell decnet dos to use a different vector
(tho' we don't need it, it might be nice to be able to specify the
DMA channel as well).
Has anyone else ever run into this? Is there a solution or does decnet
dos blindly assume that the network card is set to the default configuration?
Thanx for any suggestions...
Carl Fussell
Santa Clara Univ
CARL@SCU.BITNET
ps. Dave Mitten (DEC)... if you are out there and see this, any
suggestions?gil@limbic.UUCP (Gil Kloepfer Jr.) (02/13/89)
In article <2046@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> obb130t@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes: >We understand that if we use DecNetDos running on a PC on the Novell net, >it can be connected by asynchronous line to the MONET (which can be taken >to behave as a fast bit of wire, we hope) and thence into a VAX and DecNet. >Ethernet, Austpac and other fancy solutions seem to be ruled out by cost. >The PC can then (with a modest amount of programming) act as a primitive >gateway, automatically copying files left in agreed directories from one >net to the other. I've tried to use DECnet-DOS and Novell on the same ethernet controller on a PC, and they didn't like each other. This won't work. I haven't tried it with async DECnet (it sounds like it might work). For other than this config, DECnet-DOS worked really well. There's folks at a site I do a lot of work for that use it constantly. They're using the SETHOST facility as a VAX terminal, the NFT program to transfer files (likely what you will use), they have several "remote" disks, and I have used it to transfer VMS files to messy-dos diskettes for reading on my UNIX-based machine at home (via FAL, I actually directly accessed MS-DOS floppies directly from a MicroVAX). This has all been via ethernet links, but I've seen OK performance on a 9600 baud async line (for file transfers). The only bug I've seen (and two different bugs in the same thing in two different versions of DECnet-DOS): when you try to SETHOST via LAT to a password-protected service on a terminal server, SETHOST chokes on accepting the password. I haven't been able to figure out why yet, nor have I notified DEC simply because we don't use it for that. If someone's gotten this to work, let me know (please!). I've never done any programming using DECnet-DOS with the C-programming interface. I try to keep to my VAXen and leave the PCs alone! ;-) ------- Gil Kloepfer, Jr. U-Net: {decuac,boulder,talcott,sbcs}!icus!limbic!gil ICUS Software Systems Voice: (516) 968-6860 [H] (516) 746-2350 x219 [W] P.O. Box 1 Internet: gil@icus.islp.ny.us Islip Terrace, NY 11752 "Life's a ... well, you know..."