Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!ukma!psuvm.bitnet!cunyvm.bitnet!ankgc 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 Lines: 23 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"