[comp.os.vms] Dynamic async decnet...

laidlaw@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Angus Laidlaw) (10/27/87)

>Does anyone know of a 9600 baud asynchronous dialup modem usable
>with VMS asynchronous dynamic DECnet?

    I used microcom AX/9624c's.  It took some playing around to
get them to work but they worked fairly well. (I can send the settings
I used to people who are interested.)  What kind of flow control 
are the modems dealing with?  xon xoff or cts ect?  Also what
are the VMS versions, machines and ports(dz,dmf,etc).  uVMS 4.3
has a bug where it has to be the CALLED side of a dynamic async 
decnet link(it doesn't correctly handle the escape codes sent be
the remote machine telling it to switch to ddcmp, it also didn't deal
with the manual switching to ddcmp).

As for general set up, remember decnet wants eightbit noparity.
A resonable test seems to be SET HOST/DTE ttyport; have the 
modem call the remote site; type LARGE text files; when you
can do that without corruption, then try and start decnet.


				           Angus
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MIKE@phast.PHYS.WASHINGTON.EDU (Mike Eklund) (12/18/87)

I have a request by a user to set up a dynamic async decnet link.  I
played around with dynamic async decnet at vms 4.2 a couple of years
ago with no success.  Has anyone successfully run it at vms 4.5 or
vms 4.6?  If you have run it successfully do you have any suggestions
for me?  If you have tried it but failed I would appreciate hearing
that also.  You can respond to mike@phast.phys.washington.edu or
mike@uwaphast.bitnet (the internet address may not work for all sites).
Thanks for your help.

Mike Eklund
University of Washington