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From: lrb@alex.ctrg.rri.uwo.ca (3787 x4108)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: uucp over ether
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Date: 9 Jan 91 13:16:06 GMT
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Organization: CTRG, Robarts Research Institute  London, Canada
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RCS and i have been working on this, but we/I are/am getting nowhere fast.

I have to use uucp between my 822S and a sun 200miles away to move secure
large datafiles.  telebit trailblazers are good, but the phone company is
idiosycratic enough to cause regular glitches and resends.

MOST (read sun) hdb implementations allow a TCP dataline to be specified in
the Systems file which lets you IP over to the other machine and move
files verrrrry quickly. HP's uucp does not yet support this.

I have tried a number of approaches, usually a variation on punting out a 
serial line that either loops back into the HP (and performing an rlogin
over to the host) or connecting a serial port to my IP server and then defining
that IPserver port as a 'direct' connexion to the remote host.

In all cases, the sessions hang just after the initial 'H' message is sent
from the master node.
ie:
        Proto started f
        ****Top**** - role=1, setline - X
        wmesg 'H'
        rmesg - 'H' got FAIL

the g protocol also dies at that point, sending 10 alarms first.

If anyone can help, i'd appreciate it.

-- 
Lance R. Bailey  Systems Manager        box: Robarts Research Institute
          email: lrb@rri.uwo.ca              Clinical Trials Resources Group
            fax: 519.663.3789                P.O. Box 5015, 100 Perth Dr.
            vox: 519.663.3787 ext. 4108      London, Canada N6A 5K8