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From: mogul@wrl.dec.com (Jeffrey Mogul)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: DECnet encapsulation in TCP-IP
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Date: 22 Nov 90 01:28:23 GMT
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In article <73306@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> hughes@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (larry hughes) writes:
>DEC used to have a product called an "internet portal" which
>enveloped TCP/IP within DECnet.  It was a hardware/software
>solution consisting of an Ultrix workstation at both ends
>(i.e. on two networks separated by a DECnet backbone) to handle
>the enveloping/de-enveloping.

As far as I know, we still sell the Internet Portal.  Quite a few
are in use inside Digital.

>It's quite possible that they reversed this to envelope DECnet
>within TCP/IP...

Not that I know of.

-Jeff