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From: zaft@nswses.navy.mil (Gordon C Zaft)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Ethernet questions
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Date: 27 Sep 90 07:13:05 GMT
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In article <27018@boulder.Colorado.EDU> rainer@hibachi.colorado.edu (Rainer Malzbender) writes:
>
>Some simple questions from a user forced to be sysman on a MicroVax II:
>
>	1. It appears that we have to chuck our DEQNA in favor of a
>	   DELNA in order to keep receiving VMS/DECNET upgrades, since
>	   future versions won't support the DEQNA. I hate to spend more
>	   money on such a dinosaur - are there alternatives ? 
>
>	2. A related question: we want to set up the MVII as a gateway
>	   to our Unix workstation subnet. Obviously we'll need another
>	   ethernet card. What do we need to do as far as software to
>	   set up a TCP/IP gateway while retaining DECNET ?

	I think it's the DELQA, not DELNA, that you are after.  Someone
want to confirm/deny?

	As for TCP/IP, I don't know myself, but I've been told the 
CMU-TEK TCP/IP is cheap AND good.

	Someone with a bit more knowledge want to fill in the gaps, here,
please?


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