Subject: RE: HSC50/70 manuals
To: Eric Smith <eric@brouhaha.com>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 10/26/2002 12:00:44
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Eric Smith wrote:

> I got some good news from an former DEC employee regarding the CIPCA
> cards I bought this spring.  The docs claim that they won't work with the
> HSC50.  It turns out that the problem is just that the HSC50 can't
> handle CI packets larger than 1K.  In fact, the HSC50 will get upset even
> if it sees packets addressed to someone else that are larger than 1K.
> However, since I'll be running my own software on the system with the
> CIPCA, I can easily constrain the packet length to avoid this problem.

You have good documentation on the CI?

> Did Ultrix ever support CI?

Yes. For a long time. You can even use IP over CI.

	Johnny

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