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From: ted@blia.BLI.COM (Ted Marshall)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: IP Encapsulation on HP 3000/9000 computers
Keywords: do they use Ethernet or 802.3 format packets
Message-ID: <6402@blia.BLI.COM>
Date: 2 Feb 89 20:25:55 GMT
Organization: Britton Lee, Los Gatos, CA
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I have heard that HP's TCP/IP implementation, when sending over Ethernet,
uses IEEE802.3 data link format (i.e. packet length, SSAP and DSAP)
instead of Ethernet V2 format (i.e. protocol type) like most Unixes.
Can anyone confirm or deny this? Specifically, I need to know if one
can put an HP machine and one of our own boxes (which will only speak
Ethernet V2 format) on an Ethernet and have them communicate.

If the answer is that the HP box will only talk 802.3 format, can
someone suggest an inexpensive bridge/router/etc box that could translate
between the two?

Thank you in advance.

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Ted Marshall       ...!ucbvax!mtxinu!blia!ted <or> mtxinu!blia!ted@Berkeley.EDU
Britton Lee, Inc., 14600 Winchester Blvd, Los Gatos, Ca 95030     (408)378-7000
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