Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!root%bostonu.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa From: root%bostonu.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa (BostonU SysMgr) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Ethernet for IBM machines Message-ID: <11548@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Sat, 13-Jul-85 09:33:29 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.11548 Posted: Sat Jul 13 09:33:29 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Jul-85 02:19:44 EDT Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 33 From: James MathesonMessage-Id: <8507110834.AA25849@uk.ac.cam.eng-dsl> Subject: Ethernet for IBM machines >Does anyone know of any products or have any experience of connecting an IBM >system (specifically a 4341 running VM/CMS) via Ethernet to VAXen running >4.2 BSD. I have heard that there is IBM Ethernet hardware for the Series 1 >which could be used a front end but know nothing about what software may be >available. > >Please send any info to jmrm%cam.cl@ucl-cs.arpa >Thanks in advance. Yes, we are experimenting with two products at Boston University: WISCNET from University of Wisconsin (available via IBM I believe) which uses a DACU (Device Access Control Unit: attaches together a piece of DD11-CK Unibus backplane and a bus and tag channel into which you plug an interlan board, it has an IBM/PC for 'control'.) We are also playing with another implementation of TCP/IP from Spartacus (Cambridge, MA) which has their own (K200) box for attaching and ethernet to an IBM channel. The WiscNet seems to be quite good, we get a *lot* of use around campus from their SMTP. File transfers seem to be limited in speed by the remote machines (eg. VAX->IBM is about the same or better than VAX->VAX) We haven't enough experience yet with Spartacus to comment tho I hear it's good (glak, for another reason we have a hacked VM and its slowing down installation...our fault.) This is all on an IBM3081, but 43x1's are a more typical configuration. -Barry Shein, Boston University