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From: matt@oddjob.UChicago.EDU (Matt Crawford)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.dcom.lans,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: IP to DECNET translation ????
Message-ID: <3770@oddjob.UChicago.EDU>
Date: Wed, 13-May-87 12:52:16 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 13 12:52:16 1987
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Reply-To: matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford)
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Help!  We want to connect our campus IP networks to SPAN, a wide
area decnet network run by NASA.  At the moment our sole SPAN
node is a PDP-11 with a 9600 baud leased line.  We will shell
out for a microvax if we can put some sort of software on it
that will provide access from TCP as transparently as possible.

Is there anything which will give us better access than just
logging in to the span node?  Some people will want to transfer
very large data sets and buying enough scratch disk for them
would be an obstacle.  Most users don't want to learn VMS (and
DECNET/Ultrix only supports ethernet as an interface).

What we wish for is a protocol translator.  Is there one?
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