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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Is there portable decnet code out there?
Keywords: decnet
Message-ID: <933@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 19 Dec 89 17:05:04 GMT
References: <241@sparta.UUCP>
Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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In article <241@sparta.UUCP> chris@sparta.UUCP (Chris Chiotasso) writes:
>We are considering putting decnet on our router along with our
>IP implementation.  Is there decnet source code available somewhere
>out there that we could obtain for the purpose of porting it to our
>router.  Besides the protocol stack we would also require the network
>management agent.

There are several companies out there who will license their DECnet
implementations.  I can think of three off the top of my head:
Technology Concepts in Sudbury MA, a Bell Atlantic Co,  Ki Research
(somewhere in New Hampshire) and Thursby Something or Other whose
address I don't know.  All three frequently advertise in rags like
Digital Review, etc.

I'm not a DECnet expert, but I've worked with TCI's code, and I thought
it was very clean, and it's amazingly portable to all sorts of environments.
I have no direct experience with Ki, but I've talked to their head techie
folks, and they sounded very bright and knowledgeable.  Thursby I've
just seen come on the scene, so I have no opinion one way or the other.



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