Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!CORNELLC.CCS.CORNELL.EDU.BITNET!ewilts%Ins.MRC.AdhocNet.CA%Stasis.MRC.AdhocNet.CA%UNCAEDU. From: ewilts%Ins.MRC.AdhocNet.CA%Stasis.MRC.AdhocNet.CA%UNCAEDU.@CORNELLC.CCS.CORNELL.EDU.BITNET (Ed Wilts) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: delua vs. deuna vs. third party Message-ID: <880712084943.06m@Ins.MRC.AdhocNet.CA> Date: 12 Jul 88 14:49:41 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 19 DON'T buy third party! (that subtle enough for you :-)). DEC cheats in their DECnet code and will only store the trailing 3 parts (6 digits) of an Ethernet address. For example, if your ethernet address is "08-00-36-e9-1e-00", DEC only uses "e9-1e-00". This is because the first 3 parts are reserved to the manufacturer. We have a third party Ethernet controller made by Intergraph Corp., and it will NOT run DECnet. DEC assumes that they know the first 3 parts because they have them reserved. In our case, nothing we can do will convince DECnet to run on our controller. In order to run DECnet, we must buy DEC's Ethernet controller. DEC's statement on this is that they consider DECnet/Ethernet so important in their corporate strategy that they don't trust anyone else to implement it. If that sounds like a load of crock to you, then you must agree with me. Anyway, buy a DEC controller... .../Ed (ewilts%ins.mrc.adhocnet.ca@uncaedu.bitnet) Ed Wilts Sr. Systems Analyst Canadian Occidental Petroleum Ltd. Calgary, Alberta, Canada