gorman@CACFS.ARPA (05/27/88)
Folks, I'm not a subscriber to either of these lists and I have not looked over the recent archives to see if the question I raise here is appropriate; nevertheless, I am hoping that there may be some experience, wisdom, and good will out there that might help straighten me out. The military college here is on an SNA wide area network with other military schools and training centers throughout the country, and we are looking for a way to bridge its PROFS message traffic (which I have been led to believe uses RSCS at its transport level) to a TCP/IP-based network--much as some BITNET hosts that are also on the ARPANET bridge mail between the two nets. My understanding of the Penn State UREP package is that it will permit a UNIX system, say a Sun-3, emulate an RSCS host, and that there is a public domain synchronous driver for the Sun's serial port. If this is correct, I'm assuming that if we bring up UREP on one of the Suns that we already have on the TCP-IP network, we can effectively make it a mail bridge between the two networks if we connect it (BSC or SDLC?) to one of the IBM FEPs on the SNA network. I'm thiking the other VM systems will think the Sun is another RSCS host? Does this sound accurate? If so, will also UREP convert RSCS format to RFC 822 and vice-versa? If not, can someone suggest a possible alternative? Thanks in advance, Bryan Gorman SRI International P.S. Please reply to directly to me (gorman@cacfs.arpa) as I am not on either of these lists.