MICRO2.SCHWER@CRVAX.SRI.COM ("Micro Mauler") (04/27/88)
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RE: Using a DECserver 200 as a DECrouter 200
In the August 1987 issue of DEC Professional, networking
editor Bill Hancock wrote about downline loading a DECserver
200 with DECrouter 200 software, thus turning a terminal server
into a router. I have a DECserver 200 with 8 PC's hanging off
of it doing simple VT100 emulation. I would like to
turn this DECserver into a router and run DECnet-DOS on all
the PC's asynchronously. DEC has told me that
the DECserver 200 and DECrouter 200 are two different pieces
of physical hardware and you can not software configure a
DECserver to be a router. If you do, you can expect *weird*
results and it is not *supported*. Is this a marketing ploy
by DEC to get you to buy another piece of hardware?
Is Bill Hancock wrong. Has anyone out there downline
loaded a DECserver 200 with the DECrouter 200 software?
Does it work? If so, how well? Any comments would be
welcome. Thanks