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From: perl@pbseps.UUCP (Richard Perlman)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: XNS / TCP gateway??
Message-ID: <625@pbseps.UUCP>
Date: 22 Sep 89 04:53:50 GMT
Organization: Pacific Bell Separations, San Francisco, CA
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This is probably a crazy question, but then that's often how new
products are born.  In any case...  Is there such a thing as a
translating gateway between TCP/IP and XNS?  I have a specific
need, as follows:  Site a runs TCP/IP and uses telnet to access
remote services on other hosts and terminal servers.  Site b is
an XNS terminal server (UB NIU-180 or X.25 gateway), it runs
whatever sort of virtual terminal protocol UB provides with XNS
(whatever protocol you connect to when you type 'connect <host>'
from an NIU-180?).

I would like to use telnet at site a to talk to the server at
site b.
    Site a                                               Site b
+-------------+    telnet   +---------+   UB xns ?    +----------+
| tcp/ip host |=============| gateway |===============| niu-180  |
+-------------+  net A      +---------+    net B      +----------+
       |        ethernet                  ethernet          |
  my terminal                                          remote service

So in other words (if I still havn't made my point clearly)  I
would like the "remote service" attached to the NIU-180 to
appear to me as thought it were running telnet.  Got it?

Well, is there such a thing.  All reasonable replies accepted!

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