Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!mit-eddie!mit-amt!garp!henry From: henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Can we connect to IBM from this uucp network? Message-ID: <1362@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Date: Sat, 11-Jul-87 15:55:49 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-amt.1362 Posted: Sat Jul 11 15:55:49 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 16:43:18 EDT References: <139@turbo.RAY.COM> <170@idacom.UUCP> Sender: usenet@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU Reply-To: henry@garp.UUCP (Henry Mensch) Organization: The Temple of St. Todd the Incontinent Lines: 21 Keywords: IBM SNA Ugh! Well, there are a few answers to this question: IBM has a mail server on CSNET called IBM.COM. As far as I know, this is only for those who works in IBM's Research Division. IBM has several of their internal machines on BITNET. However, all the network traffic for those machines passes through their internal WATSON gateway which protects those nodes from unauthorized traffic. Again, these nodes are in IBM's Research Division. Finally, IBM has a gateway from BITNET to its internal VNET (in its entirety). Its design is such that you must be directly on BITNET to use this gateway. Also note that the IBMer has to begin the process of setting up a virtual circuit (this gateway requires that "virtual circuits" be set up in the gateway), and that IBMer has to have permission from management to use the gateway (usually, they have to prove a "business need to know," with "I wanna get notes from my friend at Frobozz, Inc" kinds of reasons not being sufficient.) # Henry Mensch // E40-379 MIT, Cambridge, MA # {ames,cca,rochester,harvard,mit-eddie}!garp!henry