Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!netcom!jbreeden From: jbreeden@netcom.UUCP (John Breeden) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: Banyan <-> TCP/IP Message-ID: <21654@netcom.UUCP> Date: 22 Jan 91 23:39:20 GMT References: <1991Jan18.220000.3234@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Jan22.103619.12547@cs.eur.nl> Organization: Netcom- The Bay Area's Public Access Unix System {408 241-9760 guest} Lines: 23 In article <1991Jan22.103619.12547@cs.eur.nl> evas@cs.eur.nl (Eelco van Asperen) writes: >jabusch@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Jabusch) writes: >>claman@csc-sun.mckinsey.com (Larry Claman) writes: >>>Our company is in the planning stages of connecting a SUN network to a Banyan >>>network via ethernet. >>>... >>In order to do any of the following, you will need FTP Software's PC/TCP >>software, with the Banyan driver set. > >Unfortunately, PC/TCP stores configuration-info in device-driver files on >the PC's. This includes the pc's internet-number. This is just annoying >for a few pc's but a real disaster for more than just a few pc's (>100). >Support for NIS (aka YP (tm)) or BOOTP would help a lot. BOOTP is supported (it's called BOOTP.EXE :-) -- John Robert Breeden, netcom!jbreeden@apple.com, apple!netcom!jbreeden, ATTMAIL:!jbreeden ------------------------------------------------------------------- "The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from. If you don't like any of them, you just wait for next year's model."