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From: mdm@cocktrice.uucp (Mike Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.sys.dec
Subject: Information Needed on DECNet
Message-ID: <312@cocktrice.uucp>
Date: 6 Oct 88 22:09:14 GMT
Reply-To: mdm@cocktrice.UUCP (Mike Mitchell)
Organization: Mike's Playground, Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Does anyone have a good place to get information on the data transport
level offered by DECNet? Our local DEC guys only know things about
swapping boards.

I have a piece of equipment that I would like to hook up to ethernet and
get it to speak to a Vax running VMS. It would seem to me that a nice
way to do this would be to get the equipment to speak DECNet, but I am
not sure what this intails.

Specifically, I am interested in how DECNet packets are formed, what kind
of information is contained in them and how to get things to communicate.
What would be ideal is talking to an ethernet controller card in the VAX
and not worry about the VMS/DECNet stuff at all, however in my past experience
I would guess that VMS would be very uncoprative at this level.

What types of low level hooks does VMS offer into its networking capability?
Can the mere mortal user of VMS access the low level hooks, or does it
require a super human user to do this?

My major expierence has been with Unix, and I know what type of networking
interfaces are avalable for it. VMS is not my real strong suit, so I need
some pointers in the right direction.

Thank you for any pointers which could get me started.


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Mike Mitchell
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