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From: adelman@TGV.COM (Kenneth Adelman)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: DecNet on TR
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Date: 10 Aug 89 17:27:15 GMT
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Reply-To: Adelman@TGV.COM (Kenneth Adelman)
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> I know this is perhaps blasphemous so I'll put on my asbestos suit.

    At least my answer will be less blasphemous...

> As far as I know the only media that DecNet currently runs over is
> serial lines and ethernet.  Are there other media that DecNet is being
> implemented on?

    Yes.  As part of our MultiNet (VMS TCP/IP) product we encapsulate
DECnet packets in IP datagrams.  This lets you run DECnet over the
wide variety of devices supported by IP, and across wide-area networks
which only support IP.

    At SRI we even run DECnet over IP over an ethernet because we have
Interlan cards in our 750 and 780 and by layering DECnet over IP we
don't need to buy DEC ethernet cards (for you non-DECies, DECnet/VAX
only supports DEC's own ethernet cards).

						    Kenneth Adelman
						    TGV