Re: decnet vs decnet over IP

On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 08:52:47 +0800, "Richard Maher"
<maher_rj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This emulates DECnet from the application point of view

Interesting. How transparent is it? Does it relace the _NET: driver on VMS?

Transparency is, to the best of my five-year knowledge working with
it, total. IP is the transport layer (configured in the "Configure
Transports" section of NET$CONFIGURE), so how it gets there is below
your knowledge and control as far as the application goes. You use
either the NSP or the OSI transport, and if you use the OSI transport,
you get an additional question about whether you want to run DECnet
application over that transport (instead of NSP). HP won't certify
that certain things working over DECnet-over-IP (such as DECnet/SNA),
but your basic SET HOST and OPEN nodename"::"access-control-string
stuff works great.


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