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From: bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: DECnet and TCP/IP between Ultrices
Message-ID: <880@uakari.primate.wisc.edu>
Date: 13 Oct 89 19:45:24 GMT
Organization: UW-Madison Primate Center
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VAX 8200, Ultrix 1.2
VAXstation 2000, Ultrix 3.1 (but comments apply to 3.0 and 2.2 as well)

Whenever the VAXstation kernel is compiled with DECnet in it, it won't
speak TCP/IP to the 8200.  (Actually, the silence is only partial; rwho
traffic gets through from one to the other, but ping, rlogin, rsh, etc.,
don't work.)  When the VS kernel is compiled w/o DECnet, the machines
talk TCP/IP to each other with no problems.

Anyone know why this is?  Perhaps due to differences in 4.2/4.3BSD networking
code?  The VAXstation talks to my MIPS box (4.3BSD based in the networking)
fine whichever way the kernel is compiled.

Paul DuBois
stewed-monkey-heads@primate.wisc.edu