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Re: Wanrouter-500 with X.25, Decnet, IP, PAD

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From: Bob Boyd
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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From: rbn@ralph.rtpnc.epa.gov (Bob Boyd)
Subject: Re: Wanrouter-500 with X.25, Decnet, IP, PAD
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