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From: dao@cs.nott.ac.uk (David Osborne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.xerox
Subject: Re: CMU's TCP/IP for Vax/VMS
Message-ID: <855@robin.cs.nott.ac.uk>
Date: 25 Mar 88 16:44:07 GMT
References: <8803091929.AA18063@kestrel>
Reply-To: dao@cs.nott.ac.uk (David Osborne)
Organization: Cripps Computing Centre, Nottingham University, UK
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In article <8803091929.AA18063@kestrel> joycem@KESTREL.ARPA writes:
>....  I have been told 
>by my computer center manager that CMU has a version
>of TCP/IP for the Vax running VMS.  Does anyone know anything about
>this?  How well does it work?  How quickly is TCP/IP upgraded after
>a VMS upgrade?  What kind of support (if any) is available?

We have the CMU TCP/IP package running on a VAX 785, under VMS 4.6.
I can't give detailed info about it, as I wasn't the one who installed
it, but I use it with TCP/IP on a CCI Tahoe under Unix System V and have
also used it to a Vax 750 running 4.2BSD and various Suns running Sun OS 3.4.

Generally, it seems that the CMU package is fine talking to the 4.2BSD
Vax and to the Suns, but there have been various oddities between the Tahoe
and the CMU, notably ftp transfers hanging and the occasional telnet
session from VMS to the Tahoe being dropped, but leaving the pseudo-tty
still logged in on the Tahoe.  However, this may be due to problems
at the Tahoe end of things.

I should say we haven't (yet) used the CMU `finger' or `lpr' daemons..
I'm hoping to try the `lpr' sometime soon.

Dave

-- 
David Osborne
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