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Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 11:49:15 EST
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Hmmm ... I seem to have just received a backlog of old
(late January) messages ... 

This may have already been answered, but just in case it didn't ...
The connection between the Apollo Domain net and an Alliant FX/1 or FX/8
is the COM-ETH ethernet option from Apollo. You need to have
a node with a multibus to install this hardware and you need to buy the
ethernet option from Alliant. If you are purchasing a DSP9000 from Apollo
they will supply you with the ethernet options for both machines
and a DSP90 to act as a dedicated internet gateway between the
ringnet and the ethernet. The software is TCP/IP (TELNET for remote terminal
logins, FTP for file transfers, TELNET_SERVER and FTP_SERVER to allow the
FX/1 or FX/8 to make TELNET or FTP connections to the Apollo nodes) Apollo
has plans for future software upgrades to better integrate the DSP9000 with the
rest of the Domain network, but for now its the standard ethernet hardware
and software (which isn't bad ... it's just not as good as Domain)

					-- Dave Krowitz
					 ( DAVID@MIT-MC.ARPA
					 ( or KROWITZ@MIT-MARIE@MIT-MC.ARPA)

P.S. I will be giving a talk at the ADUS conference on using the
     FX/1, FX/8 with our Apollos (if I ever get it written!)