Subject: Re: TCPIP vax3400
To: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
From: Bambang Anggono <anggono@pjb2.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/10/2002 14:58:00
Thanks for your reply.
At 02:05 AM 1/10/02 -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
>On January 10, Bambang Anggono wrote:
> > We are goverment company. We produce electricity. WE call power plant.
> > We used the VAX3400 for DAS ( Data Acqusition System ). This vax used
> DESQA
> > ethernet controller . We have 4 (VAx 3400).
> > Please inform us. is DESQA support TCPIP . How VAx 3400 can connect our
> > LAN (TCPIP)
> > Thanks for your kind attention and cooperated.
>
> Hi Bambang! While this is definitely not the best forum for this
>question, there is quite a lot of VAX expertise here. :-)
>
> Whether or not an interface supports TCP/IP isn't a matter of the
>board, but the operating system on the machine. Every operating
>system I've seen on a VAX...be it VMS or a UNIX variant like
>Ultrix...is capable of running TCP/IP on a DESQA interface, assuming
>you've got the operating system configured correctly. You should be
>able to connect your VAX to your TCP/IP LAN with no problems at all.
>
> Treat those VAX 3400s well...they're great machines! :-)
>
> Good luck,
> -Dave
>
>--
>Dave McGuire
>St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf