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From: ANKGC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Anil Khullar)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Need configuration info for various DEC ethernet widgets
Message-ID: <1749ANKGC@CUNYVM>
Date: 29 Nov 88 01:27:21 GMT
References: <3607@phri.UUCP> <108@gnome6.pa.dec.com> <3609@phri.UUCP>
Organization: The City University of New York - New York, NY
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In article <3609@phri.UUCP>, roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) says:
>        And, if you can stand one more question, who named all the friggin'
>boxes?  I mean, DE followed by 3 random letters?  Can't get much more
>confusing than that, especially why you are trying to ask questions over
>the phone: "I'm sorry, did you say DEmumble or DEmumble?"
>--
    My experience frm DELNIand DEMPR has been horrible: I have had the
 the unfortunate experience to hook a Symbolics machine to a DECNET via
DELNI.  I wanted some info on increasing the TMO's and increase the packets
to the level that a CHAOSnet (neti:***) function count could handle
some open files on the VAX. All I got from a standard colorado hotline
was *gee* I do not know what the other (symblics) machine handles.
look at NCP > SHOW NODE  EXECUTOR

Frankly, I think the support *su**s.  Not being a hardware oriented guy
I'd say that it is easier to run TCP/IP on top of DECNET and hook nonVMS
amchines on the same net. (BTW TCP/IP from CMU-TEK is a cheap solution
and reasonably worthwile looking into...)

>Roy Smith, System Administrator
>Public Health Research Institute
>{allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers}!phri!roy -or- phri!roy@uunet.uu.net
>"The connector is the network"