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From: allen@gitpyr.UUCP (P. Allen Jensen)
Newsgroups: net.works
Subject: Ethernet and DEC's DELNI with non-DEC computers
Message-ID: <1444@gitpyr.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 15:34:44 EST
Article-I.D.: gitpyr.1444
Posted: Thu Feb 20 15:34:44 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 21-Feb-86 06:17:58 EST
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Lines: 32
Keywords: ethernet,DELNI,networking

We are about to try to connect :

      1 Vax 11/780 - VMS
      2 uVax II - VMS
      1 Apollo DN660 (SYS V or Berk. 4.2 or DOMAIN/AEGIS)
      1 Sun-3/160 - UNIX
      2 Masscomp 5500 - UNIX

This is going to be done using ethernet.  I have a couple of questions:

    1. Is there a VMS product for running TCP/IP ?
    2. Can all of these systems be used with a DELNI ?
       (A DELNI is an "Ethernet-in-a-box", eg no cable or transceiver)
    3. Should we even bother to try to get the VAX systems to talk
       to the other systems with TCP/IP ?
    4. Is there a better solution than TCP/IP for about the same cost ?

Thanks in advance for any help on this.
-- 
        "It's quite easy, if you don't know how.
         That's the important bit.  Be not at all
         sure how you're doing it."
                                      -Arthur Dent


P. Allen Jensen
Manager, Systems Division
GTICES Systems Laboratory
Department of Civil Engineering
Georgia Insitute of Technology
Atlanta Georgia, 30332-0355
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