Xref: utzoo comp.dcom.lans:4486 comp.protocols.tcp-ip:10434 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!umich!pmsmam!pmsmam.uucp!wwm From: wwm@pmsmam.uucp (Bill Meahan) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: PC Net/TCP-IP gateway sought Message-ID: <1990Mar2.195338.25380@pmsmam.uucp> Date: 2 Mar 90 19:53:38 GMT Sender: wwm@pmsmam.uucp (Bill Meahan) Organization: Ford Motor Co EFHD Ypsilanti Plant, Ypsilanti MI Lines: 28 Our site currently has a group of "technical" computers (HP minis, 9000/300 and 9000/800 series, HP-UX) where information for our CIM and Manufacturing Engineering activities reside. But, on each engineer/manager desk is an IBM PS/2 (the corporate "Office Automation Solution"). All the PS/2's connect to PC-Net for remote printing, connection (through a 3720 gateway) to the corporate mainframes, and access to a file server (IBM). We would like to find a gateway that would allow the engineer to use his/her desktop PC as a terminal into the UNIX systems for access to the information there. Currently, many of the PS/2's are ALSO connected to an Allen-Bradley VistaLAN/1 (through their serial port) so that they CAN access the UNIX systems. This is a kludge! Does anyone know of a product (hardware and software) that would allow "terminal" traffic on the PC-Net to be gatewayed into telnet sessions on an Ethernet? Better yet, an X-server so that the engineer could use the PS/2 as an X-terminal into the UNIX systems using ONLY the PC-Net connection on the back? All replies, followups, etc. gratefully accepted (but no flames about the PC-Net please, the corporate bigwigs INSIST on using it). -- Bill Meahan | UUCP: uunet!mailrus!umich!pmsmam!wwm | snail: 128 Factory St., Ypsilanti, MI 48197 #include | voice: +1 313 484 9320 /* witty */ |packet: wa8tzg @ wa8ooh.mi.usa.na