lezo@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Lez Oxley) (11/23/89)
We currenty have a small stand-alone network of 4 VAXMATEs running DECNet. One of the Vaxmates acts as a file server to the other three. We were going to link them to a MicroVAX 3300 and use MDSOS services under VMS to do the file-serving thus relieving the 4th VAXMATE from its 'server' duties. We know how to do this and anyway if we got stuck we could call upon DEC for help. We now wish instead to have a Sequent Symmetry (Dynix) machine to do the file serving using TCP/IP. We know what software we need to run on the Sequent but what do we have to do at the VAXMATE end. We will need some TCP/IP software of some description but what? Also will the Ethernet cards supplied with the VAXMATEs (which are a 'special' kind of MSDOS clone) be suitable for TCP/IP. If anyone can mail me details, however, slight as to how I can link my VAXMATEs to a TCP/IP network I should be very grateful. Thanks in Advance. -- Lez Oxley, Administration, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9RH, UK Tel: +44 273 606755 x3808 Fax: +44 273 678335 JANET: lezo@uk.ac.sussex.syma ARPA: lezo%syma.sussex.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk BITNET: lezo@syma.sussex.ac.uk UUCP: lezo@syma.uucp