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From: kleonard@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM (Ken Leonard)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.protocols.ibm,comp.protocols.pcnet,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc,alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: interrogative tcp-ip on arcnet
Message-ID: <470@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM>
Date: 21 Dec 89 14:35:33 GMT
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Organization: Unisys Defense Systems, NISD, Great Valley Laboratory
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[Flame off, please, about the hardware choice. We _had_ to go with absolute- 
lowest-cost-per-_permissible_-suppliers.] 
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We are setting up a few engineers' PClones on an ARCNET LAN, specifically 
Datapoint Corp's. DATALAN. 
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The first question is, "Where can we get IP, TCP, et.al. to run over ARCNET?" 
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And the second question is, "How can we use one of the boxes with a 9600 bps 
link to a UNIX/VAX with SLIP and router software to get access to the rest 
of the systems here at our center?" 
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We think we would like to have a _packet_driver_ for our ARCNET cards (the 
Performance Technology card sold by Datapoint as the ARCNET RIM-1.) 
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We think we could use PCIP on top of the packet driver. 
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We think PCROUTE or PCBRIDGE would handle the cross-connect. 
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Can we also get a _packet_driver_ SLIP? 
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What about KA9Q? It seems that it might work. Maybe we could get Phil 
Karns' permission to use it. Yes, we _are_ a commercial organization, but 
our corporate management is so thoroughly brain-dead that they think 
"personal computers" (and even shared UNIX systems) are just something 
to be sold to a bunch of gullible customers, and not actual possibly useful 
tools. 
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All comments and suggestions gratefully accepted! 
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thanx and regardz, 
Ken