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From: mike@poe.jpl.nasa.gov (Mike Tankenson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.masscomp
Subject: Re: PC-Masscomp Ethernet
Message-ID: <3328@soma.bcm.tmc.edu>
Date: 9 Feb 88 07:35:38 GMT
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In-Reply-To: Message from "Stan Barber, Moderator" of Jan 19, 88 at 11:31 pm
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> We are thinking of connecting our PC-AT to our masscomps via ethernet.
> We currently have the 201 boards on the masscomps. If any of you
> have experience with making such a connection, I would appreciate any
> help, gotchas, or advice you might proffer.

We have experience with ATs running PC/NFS on a 3c501 board (highly
recommended).  We have also tested the Excelan TCP/IP package (h/w and s/w).
We haven't seen any (major) problems with either of these packages.

Note that you don't need NFS on your server (Masscomp) to use PC/NFS.  It is a
full blown TCP/IP implementation with TELNET, FTP, some 'R' commands, etc.
When you upgrade to RTU 4.0 (with NFS), you'll be able to share resources from
the file server to your ATs.  I believe the prices for Excelan and Sun PC/NFS
are very close.

--mike

Mike Tankenson                Telos/Jet Propulsion Laboratory - NASA
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