kleonard@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM (Ken Leonard) (12/21/89)
-- [Flame off, please, about the hardware choice. We _had_ to go with absolute- lowest-cost-per-_permissible_-suppliers.] -- We are setting up a few engineers' PClones on an ARCNET LAN, specifically Datapoint Corp's. DATALAN. -- The first question is, "Where can we get IP, TCP, et.al. to run over ARCNET?" -- And the second question is, "How can we use one of the boxes with a 9600 bps link to a UNIX/VAX with SLIP and router software to get access to the rest of the systems here at our center?" -- We think we would like to have a _packet_driver_ for our ARCNET cards (the Performance Technology card sold by Datapoint as the ARCNET RIM-1.) -- We think we could use PCIP on top of the packet driver. -- We think PCROUTE or PCBRIDGE would handle the cross-connect. -- Can we also get a _packet_driver_ SLIP? -- What about KA9Q? It seems that it might work. Maybe we could get Phil Karns' permission to use it. Yes, we _are_ a commercial organization, but our corporate management is so thoroughly brain-dead that they think "personal computers" (and even shared UNIX systems) are just something to be sold to a bunch of gullible customers, and not actual possibly useful tools. -- All comments and suggestions gratefully accepted! --------------------- thanx and regardz, Ken