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From: EVERHART%ARISIA@rca.COM ("GLENN EVERHART, 609 486 6328")
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Subject: IBM Looking like DECnet
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Date: Fri, 21-Aug-87 09:12:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 21 09:12:00 1987
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The package that makes an IBM mainframe look like a DECnet node is
called Interlink; we have it here and it works just fine. They use
IBM resident software to talk at channel speeds to a PDP11 router
so that RSX DECnet is the router one sees. However the IBM side can
both create and receive DECnet connections. There is a VM version
and an MVS version.
	Note: IBM's notion of security seems much less comprehensive than
one is used to in VMS; some care in allowing access via the IBM is needed
to avoid creating security holes.
	Interlink is advertised in DEXPO and in magazines; sorry, I don't
have address info.