Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!att!ucbvax!NUSVM.BITNET!GBODSO1 From: GBODSO1@NUSVM.BITNET (HC Eng) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: TCP/IP <--> IBM network (link?) Message-ID: <9102210331.aa28060@louie.udel.edu> Date: 21 Feb 91 12:03:40 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 22 X-Unparsable-Date: Thu, 21 Feb 91 16:23:55 SST >I've just a simple question: a friend of mine, who's working at IBM and uses >the IBM-network, wonders if there is a way for him to access this network we >are >all using directly from his IBM-terminal (he's working in under VM/CMS and >MVS/TSO-E and uses IBMtype adresses: NAME at NODE)? How, if the physical link >between the two networks actually exists, should he write the adresses to be >letter). There is a gateway between VNET and BITNET. It is a very restrictive linkage, requiring the party from IBM to first establish a virtual circuit. The party on BITNET then has to answer to firm up the virtual circuit. From then on, communications is as per normal. On the BITNET side, normally there is no restriction on who can connect to VNET. However, on the VNET side, I believe IBM is very strict on which employee can talk to the outside world. Anyway, the link is supposedly for mutual research communications only. Recently though, I noticed that some people from IBM are talking out through a node called IINUS1.IBM.COM. To find out about the VNET/BITNET gateway, read the document VNETDOC LISTING from BITNIC. Just go: TELL LISTSERV AT BITNIC SENDME VNETDOC LISTING ie if you are working on VM. Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com