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From: mah@hpuviea.UUCP (Michael Haberler)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: IP Encapsulation on HP 3000/9000 computers
Message-ID: <856@hpuviea.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 89 07:23:15 GMT
References: <6402@blia.BLI.COM>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Vienna,Austria
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From article <6402@blia.BLI.COM>, by ted@blia.BLI.COM (Ted Marshall):
> 
> 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.
  ^^^^^^^^^^ replace by 'and'.

All HP 9000 series 300 and 800 talk both. The HP 3000 series currently only
speak IEEE802.3.

> 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.

You wont have any problems with the default setup, which is to talk both
protocols concurrently.


-michael
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