Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!sunic!chalmers!lindberg
From: lindberg@cs.chalmers.se (Gunnar Lindberg)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: HP discless ?
Message-ID: <3436@chalmers.se>
Date: 21 Nov 89 16:18:50 GMT
Sender: news@chalmers.se
Organization: Dept of CS, Chalmers, Sweden
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At Chalmers University we run a campus Ethernet with address-
filtering bridges and several protocols (IP, DECnet, EtherTalk
etc). Now, some people want to connect a number of discless HP
systems to the network and before saying "yes" or "no" we need
to know a little more.

I think "HP discless" does not use IP, but instead something
proprietary (or possibly even something "standard") but our
local HP rep has not yet been able to tell. Therefore I'd
be very grateful if somebody (@hp.com ?) could supply some
info (or pointers to), e.g:

    +	Brief overview of "HP discless" protocol: address formats,
	Ethernet type fields, etc.

    +	Expected behavior: expected amount of broadcasts and/or
	multicasts and some indication of their usage.

    +	Coordination needs: addresses, port numbers, names etc.

Thanks in advance,

	Gunnar Lindberg