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From: dougm@ico.ISC.COM (Doug McCallum)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Vianet, can it support TCP/IP ????
Message-ID: <12872@ico.ISC.COM>
Date: 17 Dec 88 04:11:28 GMT
References: <58@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>
Reply-To: dougm@ico.UUCP (Doug McCallum)
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Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Boulder CO
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In article <58@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU> greggt@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Gregg Thompson) writes:
>
>	I was wondering if the network called Vianet would support TCP/IP,
>I know of a couple of sites in my area that would like to someday like to
>eventually hook into internet and have the use of Telnet and FTP.

Vianet is not TCP/IP based.  It is a sort of XNS derivative protocol although
not XNS compatible.  The closest you could get would be to swap out with
a TCP/IP implementation by rebooting when necessary or use something like
Western Digital's UNIX based implementation where TCP/IP could be running
in parallel to Vianet and have the DOS users connect to it to get TCP/IP
access.