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From: john@uw-nsr.UUCP (John Sambrook)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Honeywell and DG
Message-ID: <1326@uw-nsr.UUCP>
Date: 25 May 88 23:58:18 GMT
References: <8805122012.AA13251@brillig.umd.edu>
Reply-To: john@uw-nsr.UUCP (John Sambrook 548-4386)
Organization: UW-Bioengineering, Seattle, WA
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>In article <8805091745.AA24461@ACC-SB-UNIX.ARPA> chris@ACC-SB-UNIX.ARPA 
  (Chris VandenBerg) writes:
>Good morning all!
>	I am going to be running Honeywell and Data General systems on a
>LAN soon and have been told by a customer that they have TCP/IP implement-
>ations running on them.
>

We are running DG/UX 3.11.1 and have DG/UX TCP/IP installed.  I believe
the product is derived from 4.2BSD (not 4.3) so it may have some of the
bugs that were present in that release.  However, Data General seems to
update it fairly frequently so I imagine reported bugs would be fixed
in a reasonable length of time.

It works fine, modulo the following limitations:

  1.  No support for using nameservers or resolvers.  You have to
      (try to) maintain an up-to-date copy of /etc/hosts.  Not at 
      all easy these days.

  2.  The ping program says one of two things:  "xxx is alive" or
      "no answer from xxx." 

To be fair, I think that some of these will be fixed at the next 
major TCP/IP release (coinciding with DG/UX 4.0).

Hope this helps.

-- 
John Sambrook                        Internet: john@nsr.bioeng.washington.edu
University of Washington RC-05           UUCP: uw-nsr!john
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