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From: idall@augean.ua.oz.au (Ian Dall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Decnet-tcp/ip gateway.
Message-ID: <1991May29.151258.19842@augean.ua.OZ.AU>
Date: 29 May 91 15:12:58 GMT
Sender: idall@augean.ua.OZ.AU (Ian Dall)
Organization: Electrical & Electronic Eng., The University of Adelaide
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We have a zillion Vaxes and one lonely DecStation. The DecStation has
Decnet and the decnet-tcp/ip gateway software (as well, of course as
tcp-ip). We also have some tcp-ip only X terminals.

What we want to be able to do is run DecWindows clients on the VMS
machines and have them use the X server on the X terminals. Is this
possible? We would very much prefer a solution which ran on the
DecStation rather than the VMS machines since we would have to get
rather a lot of licences if we had the VMS solution (unless one VMS
machine could act as a gateway).

It seems to me that this could be done two ways. One would be for the
DecStation to appear as multiple nodes (the extra nodes being pseudo
nodes for the X terminals). The other would be to have the X terminals
appear as extra displays on the Decstation. Of course, being possible,
and being implimented are two different things...


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