Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ornl-ncc.ARPA!pung From: pung@ornl-ncc.ARPA.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax Subject: Set Host /Dte Message-ID: <8612041331.AA19380@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Wed, 3-Dec-86 16:49:00 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8612041331.AA19380 Posted: Wed Dec 3 16:49:00 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Dec-86 00:00:52 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: "M. S. Pung"Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 56 Approved: info-vax@sri-kl.arpa Response to the following questions: >Does anyone have a program or procedure that does this? ie. that both >grants and logs access to a line used to dial-out? The line would >be used to access remote vaxes and non-vaxes. One application is to >Kermit files from a remote machine. > >Someone once said that $ set host/dte number >could only be used > >1) to communicate to another VAX >2) with DEC modems only > >I thought that neither applied. What is the truth? Response: We use the $set host /dte command extensively here and with great success and usefullness. It is not true that this command can only be used with DEC modems. The $set host/dte command serves as a mechanism to logically connect you with the specified line and route the input from your terminal or device down that line. Therefore you can use this command to connect to any line with any number of possible devices connected to it. As one of our devices we use Hayes 2400 smart modems and it works fine. We use this command extensively when Kermitting files. However the command $set host/dte/dial=(NUMBER:number) TTXX: uses an image called Sys$library:dte_df03.exe to automatically call the specified number using the DEC DF03 modem protocol. Alas, the sources for the image are supplied by DEC in the file Sys$examples:dte_df03.mar to be used as a template for users to modify the code to talk whatever protocol your modem speaks. We have successfully converted the code to talk to our Hayes modems and built the image Sys$library:dte_hayes.exe and then use the command: $set host/dte/dial=(NUMBER:number,MODEM=hayes) TTXX:. A possible suggestion to your line allocation question might be to put an Access Control List (ACL) on each of the lines and then Grant these ID's in Authorize to the desired users. As a side benefit, this could provide a kind of load leveling mechanism. Mike Pung (Pung%ornl-ncc@ornl-msr.arpa) Martin Marietta Energy Systems Oak Ridge, Tn ------