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From: cmilono@netcom.COM (Carlo Milono)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Latest AT&T 386 unix/starlan/rfs etc. ?
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.163612.3221@netcom.COM>
Date: 21 Mar 91 16:36:12 GMT
References: <1991Mar15.162442.3598@chinet.chi.il.us>
Organization: Netcom - Somewhere in the S.F. Bay Area
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In article <1991Mar15.162442.3598@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>I'd like to upgrade our '386 unix machines to SysVr4 but haven't
>been able to get definitive answers about the following software for it:
>Starlan network (1M)
>RFS
>Starlan Dos Server (or whatever the name is now...)
>PMX-Starmail
>----
>Which versions of these products run under r4 and will they interoperate
>with the earlier versions?  I have 3B2 equipment on the same net and
>would like to continue to allow the DOS clients to link to both types
>of machines simultaneously and have RFS links between them.  If necessary,
>I can move the Starmail service completely over to the '386 servers.
>
The latest version of StarLAN is now the StarGROUP LAN Manager Server or
LMS.  The revision number is 3.4 and it *requires* SysVR4.0.2 and will
operate on 1MB hardware, 10MB, and (gag) Token Ring.  It is a CLNP TP4
OSI protocol moving the LAN Man API's, so you can mix earlier OSI-based
Starlan (now called StarGROUP) as long as you are running 3.2, 3.2, or 3.3.
The older stuff was based on the Universal Receiver Protocol - a neat
stack, but not standard.  There is NO DOS-based server software anymore,
the server for StarGROUP *must* run UNIX.  StarMail is now both
character-based or Win3.0-based, and I believe the rev is 2.2.  RFS is
available, but I don't know of the RevNum, and it should work with
previous versions.

I link from a 3.4 client to a primary server that has 3.4; I link my
printer ports LPT1 and 2 to a 3.2 server that acts as a print spooler
for a considerable net; I link to several 3.3 servers for a variety
of other services...
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