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From: dbercel@twg-ap.UUCP (Danielle S. Bercel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP/3000 TCP/IP - is it standard?
Summary: ARPA services for the HP3000
Message-ID: <303@twg-ap.UUCP>
Date: 7 Feb 89 16:54:59 GMT
References: <1078@pyrltd.UUCP> <4310028@hpindda.HP.COM>
Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA.
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In article <4310028@hpindda.HP.COM>, dfc@hpindda.HP.COM (Don Coolidge) writes:
> >Does anyone out there know about HP's TCP/IP offering on the 3000 series
> >under MPE ? Is it the "real thing". Has anyone connected successfully to HP
> >3000 using TCP/IP from a "foreign" machine (non-HP), if so what?
> 
> >I have been told by a HP user that the 3000 TCP/IP is "non-standard" and
> >work may be required to talk to it!
> 
> The answer is yes and no.
> 
> The 3000 has a real TCP/IP implementation. However, the only networking
> and network services currently running on 3000s in the field is the
> HP-proprietary NS (HP Network Services). No ARPA/Berkeley services exist yet;
> only IEEE 802.2/.3 link level transport is supported (no Ethernet); and all

The ARPA services do indeed exist for the HP3000 and are from the Wollongong
Group. Including the telnet client and server (server can handle block
mode), ftp client and server, and SMTP interfaced to HP Desk. Additionally,
all clients use the domain name resolver to interface to a name server
via the gethostname function as well as the HP3000 hosts file.

The product WIN/TCP for MPE/V, release 1.1, is available now. Additionally,
HP is scheduled to release Ethernet on V-delta-5 (G.B3.05) soon and then
the need for a gateway to convert IP frames will not be a requirement. However,
to do said conversion the Wollongong Group has a router product
available, WIN/ROUTE for DOS, that runs on a AT (or PS2) and can convert
the IP frames. Also, a Cisco box can do the same thing.

danielle bercel
project leader, WIN/TCP for MPE/V

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Danielle Bercel - Senior Software Engineer - The Wollongong Group
Email:   dbercel@twg-ap.com or dbercel@twg.com
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