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From: OC.GARLAND%CU20B@COLUMBIA.EDU (Richard Garland)
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Subject: Re: jnet/DECnet question
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Date: Sat, 7-Sep-85 10:17:02 EDT
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jnet/DECnet question:

You can do 2 things:
	1) get a proper license and run jnet on B and run a logical
	jnet link from A to B over DECnet.  This is supported 
	in the announced and soon to be released version of jnet
	(talk to the vendor: Joiner Associates).
	We have been beta testing this type of linkage for a long
	time and it works fine.  We have 1 link to an IBM host (using
	a DUP-11) and 3 links to other VAXes using logical links over
	DECnet circuits.  They all look the same to the user level, and
	the remote hosts coming in over DECnet see the rest of BITnet
	just as they would as if we were an IBM host (heaven forbid).

	2) Run some gateway software which will relay mail from BITnet
	to DECnet hosts (those hosts would run no special software).
	There is an unsupported gateway package which we have which you
	*may* be able to get from the supplier of jnet.

Note: I have no connection with Joiner Associates other than as a beta test 
site and speak only from my own opinions and experience.  Nothing said here
should (or can) be construed as a commitment by them for any software.

					Rg
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