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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Connecting Unix and VMS to Ethernet
Message-ID: <13861@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Nov-86 12:55:55 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 24 12:55:55 1986
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In article <2340@psuvax1.UUCP> zaccone@psuvax1.UUCP (Rick Zaccone) writes:
>Is there a better way to go?  Please respond by mail.  I don't normally
>read this newsgroup.

I'm posting this because I want to ask a question. If this is an
interesting question to Rick, he should read this newsgroup.

>We need a TCP/IP product for the 780 running VMS.  We do not yet have
>an Ethernet board, and are considering three possibilities:
>
>1. An Interlan board with on-board TCP/IP and other application
>software.
>
>2. An Excelan board with on-board TCP/IP and other application
>software.

We have been using Excelan. It seems to work and has some nice extras
you don't always get with TCP/IP, namely, many of the Berkeley r*
utilities like rwho and ruptime. The rlogin isn't completely
satisfactory, as you would expect rlogin to an host with an Excelan
interface to log you in instead of prompting you for a login:.

The worst thing in my point of view is the lack of routed support.
Unfortunately, Interlan has no routing support in their TCP terminal
server and I wouldn't expect them to have it in their VMS interfaces
either. The only hope I see is for many potential customers to ask for
it.

-- 
 If you had everything, where would you put it?

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