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Conference help::decnet-osi_for_vms

Title:	DECnet/OSI for OpenVMS

Moderator:	TUXEDO::FONSECA

Created:	Thu Feb 21 1991
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	3990
Total number of notes:	19027

3916.0. "are there limitations with DECNET over TCP/IP" by COWBOY::MIRGHANE () Thu Apr 03 1997 10:39

    When using DECNET over TCP/IP (using the SLIP protocol over an asynch
    line); are all DECNET functions available or are there some
    limitations?.
    If yes what are these limitations? 
    TCP/IP is implemented with DIGITAL TCP/IP services for OpenVMS.
    
    Thank you very much for help.
    Soumetty.

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3916.1 IP$16.65.80.19::S_WATTUM Scott Wattum - FTAM/VT/OSAK Engineering Thu Apr 03 1997 11:59 15

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3916.1		IP$16.65.80.19::S_WATTUM	Scott Wattum - FTAM/VT/OSAK Engineering	`Thu Apr 03 1997 11:59`	15
	I've been doing DECnet over IP for over 1 year now, and I haven't run up against any limitations with regard to the applications I run. From the perpective of the applications running on my system, they cannot tell that the DECnet link is running over IP - which was one of the main goals of our implementation. The only real problem I've encountered is trying to talk DECnet to other systems which aren't running DECnet/OSI & IP - to do this usually requires that I go thru a gateway system. For example, some NOTES conferences are on PhaseIV systems, so I need to use Poor Mans Routing to go from my local system to a gateway (or pasthru) type system and then to the PhaseIV system. Since PMR is provided by the application, you may have problems with some applications that don't support PMR that would require you to SET HOST into a gateway system and then access the application from the gateway. --Scott

I've been doing DECnet over IP for over 1 year now, and I haven't run up against
any limitations with regard to the applications I run.  From the perpective of
the applications running on my system, they cannot tell that the DECnet link is
running over IP - which was one of the main goals of our implementation.

The only real problem I've encountered is trying to talk DECnet to other systems
which aren't running DECnet/OSI & IP - to do this usually requires that I go
thru a gateway system.  For example, some NOTES conferences are on PhaseIV
systems, so I need to use Poor Mans Routing to go from my local system to a
gateway (or pasthru) type system and then to the PhaseIV system.  Since PMR is
provided by the application, you may have problems with some applications that
don't support PMR that would require you to SET HOST into a gateway system and
then access the application from the gateway.

--Scott