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Article #1485Re: Wanrouter-500 with X.25, Decnet, IP, PAD
From: Bob Boyd
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 17:35
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 17:35
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pista@aszi.sztaki.hu (Tetenyi Istvan) writes: > Dear Colleagues, > > > We have recently bought a Wanrouter-500 Dec equipment. The router is > connected to an ethernet and to X.25. On the ethernet we use DECNET and > TCP/IP. A VAX 5100 (risc) machine is also connected to the network. > Basically this configuration is typical in three other places in > Hungary. > > Colleagues from DEC state the following: > Either: > the wanrouter software provides: > PAD/X.25, DLM/X.25, OSI/X.25 directly. > But (!) it cannot route TCP/IP over X.25 without the help of > the VAX 5100 with the installation of a DECNET/IP gateway software. > Or: > The wanrouter provides: > DLM/X.25, OSI/X.25, IP/X.25 > But there is no PAD (X.3, X.28, X.29) access at all. > > What we really wanted was or is: > OSI/X.25, PAD/X.25, IP/X.25, Decnet(DLM)/X.25. > > We could either have DECNET or DECNET/OSI etc. > To my knowledge the least expensive box that will do all of what you want is the NIS500 or the NIS600 unless DEC has come out with something else recently that I haven't heard about yet. -- Bob Boyd rbn@ralph.rtpnc.epa.gov Unisys/EPA
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,vmsnet.networks.management.misc,vmsnet.networks.misc,vmsnet.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!gatech!concert!epa-rtp!ralph.rtpnc.epa.gov!rbn From: rbn@ralph.rtpnc.epa.gov (Bob Boyd) Subject: Re: Wanrouter-500 with X.25, Decnet, IP, PAD Message-ID: <1992Sep10.173519.13561@rtpnc.epa.gov> Sender: usenet@rtpnc.epa.gov Nntp-Posting-Host: ralph.rtpnc.epa.gov Organization: UNISYS/Environmental Protection Agency References: <pista.147.716020139@aszi.sztaki.hu> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 17:35:19 GMT Lines: 35