Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!snll-arpagw!paolucci
From: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: AMERISTAR ETHERNET Board
Message-ID: <10@snll-arpagw.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 88 04:18:42 GMT
References: <846@cernvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci)
Organization: Sandia National Labs, Livermore, CA
Lines: 70

In article <846@cernvax.UUCP> zofka@cernvax.UUCP () writes:
->Hi Folks,
->
->Some questions about Ameristar Ethernet Board...
->
->I have now for one month the Ameristar Ethernet board for my
->Amiga 2000 and it works fine. BUT. Currently there is only a client side
->implementation of FTP TFTP and NFS and Telnet emulates only VT100.
->
->My questions are:
->
->Does anybody have some technical documentation about these card (I tried
->to ask to Ameristar people but no reply for the moment), a documentation
->about the low level programmation of the card (libraries, list of low level
->calls, how to create a packet or anything so...).

Ameristar also has available a Socket library.  This may be what you want.

->I have some problems (maybe my fault). I cannot make a Path on a NFS
->volume during startup-sequence. It works fine by hand but not in the
->startup-file. Strange isn't it ?. NFS is not working as fine as expected.

I don't understand this at all.  I have no problem setting a an NFS path
during startup and I do nothing special, just the standard stuff.  Furthermore
I have been using NFS close to two years and everything works fine for me.

->When I try to FTP on a IBM/VM/3090 node, it hangs and the only way to
->continue is to CTRL A-A...

Again, I have no problem with FTP.  Perhaps there is something wrong with
your network connection.

->If I TELNET on a IBM/VM/3090 TCP/IP node, impossible to get a full page
->window (line mode only and without any echo!). This is because I need
->a 3270 emulation but without any doc. to how to program the card, I can't
->program my own emulator... A solution ???

To my knowledge, so far TELNET and RLOGIN only support VT100 terminal
emulation.  Lots of times I also wished for Tektronix 4014 emulation,
but as you say, it looks like you will have to write it yourself.  This
should be possible using the Ameristar Socket library.  I certainly
would not expect Ameristar to get in the business of terminal emulation.

->When will come a upgraded version of the software ? I need a server side
->implementation of all these things to use amigas in a network environment
->without the need of a Vax or a Sun...

As I understand, the server side will be coming sometime in the future, but
not soon.

->I need also DECNET protocol. I can develop something but no documentation
->about anything... Why ?

Don't know about DECNET.

->AMERISTAR, ARE YOU READING THIS ? WHY SO MUCH SECRET ABOUT YOUR CARD ?
->IT WORKS WELL BUT THE SOFTWARE IS NOT WELL ENOUGH... WHY DON'T YOU
->REPLY TO MY MAIL ?
->
->Milan
->
->zofka@cernvax.UUCP
->zofka@cernvm.BITNET
->milan on BIX


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