Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!hc!hi.unm.edu!cyrus From: cyrus@hi.unm.edu (Tait Cyrus) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.misc Subject: UB version XNS Keywords: UB,XNS Message-ID: <23643@hi.unm.edu> Date: 25 Sep 88 01:00:06 GMT Distribution: na Organization: U. of New Mexico, Albuquerque Lines: 25 I am looking for a way to have UB NIUs (i.e. NIU-160's/180's) connect directly into a vax that supports XNS instead of only being able to connect to another NIU. The problem, as I see it, is that BSD 4.x does not understand packet types of 4 (Packet Exchange) which is how NIU's try to connect (well, at least the 1st way). Since no one responds to the type 4 packets, the NIU's switch to packet type 8 (undefined in the XNS specs) to connect. The type 8 packets are understood by other NIUs which respond and a connection is established. It would be sooooo nice if some code could be dropped into BSD 4.x XNS code that understands NIU connection requests. Thanks for any help..... --- @__________@ W. Tait Cyrus (505) 277-0806 /| /| University of New Mexico / | / | Dept of ECE - Parallel Processing Research Group @__|_______@ | Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131 | | | | | | hc | | e-mail: | @.......|..@ cyrus@pprg.unm.edu | / | / @/_________@/