Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!KL.SRI.COM!SCHWER From: SCHWER@KL.SRI.COM (Leonard Schwer) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: ["Micro Mauler" : post for Curt on DECrouter 200] Message-ID: <12392502811.29.SCHWER@KL.SRI.COM> Date: 22 Apr 88 15:31:05 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 36 Using a DECserver 200 as a DECrouter 200 --- --------------- Return-Path: Received: from CRVAX.SRI.COM by KL.SRI.COM with TCP; Fri 22 Apr 88 08:15:39-PDT Received: From MICRO2 by CRVAX.SRI.COM with DECNET via Mail-11; Fri, 22 APR 88 08:16:39 PDT. Date: Fri, 22 APR 88 08:16:39 PDT * From: "Micro Mauler" To: CRVAX::"Schwer@KL.SRI.COM" Subject: post for Curt on DECrouter 200 Reply-To: This is a posting for a friend. Please address replies and requests for summaries to: Micro2.Schwer@CRVAX.SRI.COM =========================================================== In the August 1987 issue of DEC Professional, networking editor Bill Hancock wrote about downline loading a DECserver 200 with DECrouter 200 software, thus turning a terminal server into a router. I have a DECserver 200 with 8 PC's hanging off of it doing simple VT100 emulation. I would like to turn this DECserver into a router and run DECnet-DOS on all the PC's asynchronously. DEC has told me that the DECserver 200 and DECrouter 200 are two different pieces of physical hardware and you can not software configure a DECserver to be a router. If you do, you can expect *weird* results and it is not *supported*. Is this a marketing ploy by DEC to get you to buy another piece of hardware? Is Bill Hancock wrong. Has anyone out there downline loaded a DECserver 200 with the DECrouter 200 software? Does it work? If so, how well? Any comments would be welcome. Thanks -------