23 Feb
1999
23 Feb
'99
7:20 a.m.
I'm getting my DEC Pro 380 up to speed with POS (RSX-11M-) while I try to
find usable Pro/Venix disks (my real goal) and this subject is close to
what I am thinking about now.
My DEC Pro has an ethernet card (DECNA) and POS has Pro/DECnet freely available.
As far as I can tell, there isn't any TCP/IP software for it. (But, if someone
knows of any, please let us know!). So, one way to have the Pro communicate
with my network is to have another machine that talks both DECnet and TCP/IP.
Apparently, there is a Linux DECnet, but Zane has been having trouble getting
it to work. Another possibility is a VAXstation that talks both DECnet and
TCP/IP.
So, is this possible? Will the hobbyist VMS do it? Or will Ultrix do it?
What is the smallest *VAX* that will do this? Note that I don't think I
require any routing between the protocols. I would be happy just to be able
to transfer files to/from my TCP/IP network to the *VAX* and to be able to
independently transfer files to/from my Pro using DECnet.
Thanks,
Dave
Bill Pechter wrote:
Whee! it's finally here! I got my vaxstation
3100 from Tim in the mail today!
It's a Vaxstation 3100 model 42 a-bd with a mighty 8 megs of ram.
It works, too! Tim thoughtfully loaded VMS 6.01 on the rz23 it came with, and
after hooking it up to my apple2GS with spectrum (also a classic computer :)
I got the thing to boot up into VMS. VERY cool. :)
Wishing it had TCP-IP, but heck, if it had *everything* I want on it,
where would the challenge be? :)
Jim Strickland
jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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Jim and any other Vax folk out here -- it can have TCP/IP.
The CMU IP stack is available free with the DECUS hobbiest rom.
http://www.montagar.com/hobbyist/media.html
Bill
(who still hasn't had time to bring up my own Vaxstation 3100 yet)
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