[comp.protocols.misc] Any experiences w/ DECnet in a multi-vendor environment?

jeremy@swatsun.uucp (Jeremy Brest) (05/04/88)

I'm interested in any experiences that anyone has had with trying to
use DECnet as the central protocol in a multi-vendor network
environment.  How well (i.e., transparently) do the following work?

	1) remote login to local sites?
	
	2) remote login to wide area TCP-IP networks?

	3) file transfer between local sites?

	4) file transfer (anonymous FTP) over wide area TCP-IP
	networks?

	5) local mail?

	6) mail through wide area networks, including uucp, bitnet,
	wide area TCP-IP networks, and CSNet?

Other concerns are how Macintoshes and MS-DOS machines fit into the
picture.  I know that with TCP-IP, software has been developed to
provide login and file transfer, as well as sever implementations of
mail systems.  What about with DECnet?  

I'm also interested in how might a heterogenious network work out,
that is, have a few machines that spoke both TCP-IP and DECnet, but
most machines speaking one or the other.

Thanks,

Jeremy Brest
Swarthmore College

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