From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!neil Newsgroups: net.lan Title: Re: U-B survey, second installment... - (nf) Article-I.D.: hplabs.1205 Posted: Fri Feb 18 15:26:42 1983 Received: Sun Feb 20 05:47:08 1983 #R:unm-ivax:-13600:hplabs:6300001:000:1023 hplabs!neil Feb 18 14:54:00 1983 The Ungermann-Bass Net/1 stuff really CANNOT talk to anything else other than U-B boxes (at least the current stuff. They have prommised to change it...) The reason is that they have the U-B Ethernet address hard coded into their firmware, so U-B boxes can only address other U-B boxes. Also, the standard Net/1 firmware give no raw access to an Ethernet datagram packet; they only allow U-B type datagrams (that talk about U-B board numbers, and connectors on a board, etc.) Clearly U-B wants to sell you an ENTIRE system. I suspect that they will be changing this. I have heard that they have gotten a bit bloodied in the market because people wanted to talk to more than terminals. On the plus side, if you use Net/1 for what it was designed for (terminal multiplexing to computers; printer multiplexing, etc) then it does quite nicely. But if you want computer-computer datagrams (especially to things made by other vendors) be sure they have revised their firmware. Neil Katin HP Labs ucbvax!hplabs!neil