greggt@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Gregg Thompson) (12/16/88)
I was wondering if the network called Vianet would support TCP/IP, I know of a couple of sites in my area that would like to someday like to eventually hook into internet and have the use of Telnet and FTP. -- To live is to die, to die is to live forever; GRegg Thompson Where will you spend eternity? greggt@vax1.cc.uakron.edu
jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James Van Bokkelen) (12/17/88)
Vianet is a LAN O/S sold by Western Digital. As such, it is sold with the WD8003 family of hardware. Many people have support for some or all of those cards, with direct-to-hardware drivers (which would require re-booting to switch from Vianet to TCP/IP or vice versa). James VanBokkelen FTP Software Inc.
dougm@ico.ISC.COM (Doug McCallum) (12/17/88)
In article <58@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU> greggt@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Gregg Thompson) writes: > > I was wondering if the network called Vianet would support TCP/IP, >I know of a couple of sites in my area that would like to someday like to >eventually hook into internet and have the use of Telnet and FTP. Vianet is not TCP/IP based. It is a sort of XNS derivative protocol although not XNS compatible. The closest you could get would be to swap out with a TCP/IP implementation by rebooting when necessary or use something like Western Digital's UNIX based implementation where TCP/IP could be running in parallel to Vianet and have the DOS users connect to it to get TCP/IP access.
ljm@TWG.COM (Leo J McLaughlin) (12/20/88)
Western Digital's Vianet supports a NetBIOS interface. Assuming that it is reasonably IBM-compatible, use of Wollongong's NetBIOS driver will allow simultaneous use of LAN and TCP/IP applications (e.g. ftp> get remotefile.tcpip m:). leo j mclaughlin iii The Wollongong Group ljm@twg.com