HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: crowell@ctron.com (Chris Crowell)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.snmp
Subject: ASN.1 Encoding of Network Address
Keywords: encoding,NetwrokAddress
Date: 28 Sep 92 19:25:07 GMT
Reply-To: crowell@ctron.com (Chris Crowell)
Organization: Cabletron Systems Inc

Is it okay to encode NetworkAddress in a Trap-PDU of type 04 rather than 40 ?
The grammar states NetworkAddress is CHOICE of IpAddress which is 
Application[0] Implicit type OCTECT STRING.  Since there is only one choice and
that is an implicit type, can the implicit type be encoded in the pdu
rather than the explicit type of 40?
From: omarquez@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx (Ing. Oscar O. Marquez C.)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.snmp
Subject: polling SNMP?
Keywords: polling, SNMP
Date: 29 Sep 92 04:29:38 GMT
Organization: I.T.E.S.M. Campus Monterrey

If the management system send a query, the management system must wait
for an answer, before it sends another one?

What happen if the management system receive a trap whilst it waits for
an answer?

Where can I get more information about this issue?

I'm Oscar Marquez my count is omarquez@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx

Thank you very much.
From: ramakris@csgrad.cs.vt.edu (S.Ramakrishnan)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.snmp
Subject: A question about SNMP Mail Group (Re: SNMP Mail Group)
Date: 4 Oct 92 20:57:32 GMT
Organization: VPI&SU Computer Science Department, Blacksburg, VA

How is the SNMP Mail Grp different from comp.protocols.snmp ?
Is that a mail interface to c.p.s just as the xpert list is the
mail interface to comp.windows.x ?

(I once subscribed to the DECmcc list and am still trying to figure out 
how to get out of it; my repeated requests to get me off the list have
fallen on dumb mailboxes :-().

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S Ramakrishnan, CS Dept, McBryde Hall, VaTech
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.snmp
From: hns@ldvhp14.ldv.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (Hans Nikolaus Schaller)
Subject: SNMP Mail Group added here?
Organization: Lehrstuhl fuer Datenverarbeitung, TU Muenchen
Distribution: all
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 16:02:29 GMT

Isn't it possible to add all postings to the SNMP Mail Group mentioned
over and over the last days in this USENET group? I have subscribed
to snmp-request@uu.psi.com but would prefer to have just one
forum for discussion.

I am aware, that a similar thing is done with the neuron-digest and comp.ai.neural-nets.

H. Nikolaus Schaller
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm
From: xxronr@convx1.lerc.nasa.gov (Ron Rivett)
Subject: IBM MVS TCP/IP lpr/lpd query
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 00:01:40 GMT


We are planning to use the Unix lpr/lpd support that is included in the
latest IBM MVS TCP/IP upgrade that is being installed here at NASA Lewis. We
would like to be able to route print requests from Unix workstations or
Unix based print server systems to an MVS system with this software, in order
to allow the Unix users to access the MVS attached printers, such as 
IBM 3800's, 3820's or 3812's. 

At a later date, we would also like to use the MVS "lpr" command to route
print requests to large printers or plotters attached to various Unix 
print server systems.

Has anyone used this software in either of these modes, and if so:

   a) what do you think of its capabilities ?   
   b) Does its work OK ? 
   c) Any significant problems installing it or using it ? 

Thank you


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NASA Lewis Research Center          NASA LeRC FAX: (216) 433-8000 
21000 Brook Park Road                      E-mail: xxronr@convx1.lerc.nasa.gov
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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.protocols.nfs,comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.large,bit.listserv.ibm-main,bit.listserv.ibm-net
From: markus@edfd.uucp (Markus Gruenkorn (MAGIC))
Subject: Re: IBM mainframe/Unix connectivity questions/issues
Keywords: connectivity
Organization: EDAG, ENGINEERING + DESGIN AG, Fulda, FRG
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 09:19:16 GMT

jcasey@netcom.com (John Casey) writes:

>Hello,

>This is my first posting on the internet.  I am an applications
>programmer working for a mainframe applications software company. 
>I have varied experience in the mainframe and unix environments; 
>but am no way considered an expert on either.  Our company is
>starting to look at the unix environment to enhance it's mainframe
>products.  I am on a fact finding mission to deal with the
>connectivity issues between a unix machine and a mainframe (VM/CMS,
>MVS/CICS,...).  I've read some of IBM's brochures on the RS6000 and
>their TCP/IP for the mainframe.  Well, I trust sales brochures just
>about as much as I trust any of the Presidential candidates.  I
>would like to get the scoop from you people, the experts, who have
>actually connected the two machines and are working in a mixed
>environment. 

May be I can help you in describing our environment!
We have a large mixed network based on ethernet !
We are using:
  - As400
  - IBM Mainframe (MVS)
  - different kinds of Unix workstations (Rs600, Sparc, Sgi,..)
  - PC's with OS2 and MS-DOS
  - Apple 
  The communication between all these computers is based on TCPIP
  We installed a TCP/IP Module on our AS400
  The MS-Dos PCD's are using NCSA'Telnet ore PCNFS's
  Our OS2 PC's are using IBM's TCP/IP
  The IBM Mainframe is equipped with a fibronics box for the
  TCP/IP communication.
  Now it is possible to do file transfer in the whole net (using
  TCP/IP)
  We also can do a remote login in nearly every system (excluded
  the MS-DOS' PC's)
  NFS is possible between all systems excluded MVS and AS400.
  We use a second protocol stack on our ethernet for communication
  with the AS400, because needed the functionality of TN5250.
  Therefore we use Communications Manager (OS2) and PC-Support
  (MS-DOS) .
  In my opinion all is working well!


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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.protocols.nfs,comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.large,bit.listserv.ibm-main,bit.listserv.ibm-net
From: jcasey@netcom.com (John Casey)
Subject: IBM mainframe/Unix connectivity questions/issues
Keywords: connectivity
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 10:50:15 GMT

Hello,

This is my first posting on the internet.  I am an applications
programmer working for a mainframe applications software company. 
I have varied experience in the mainframe and unix environments; 
but am no way considered an expert on either.  Our company is
starting to look at the unix environment to enhance it's mainframe
products.  I am on a fact finding mission to deal with the
connectivity issues between a unix machine and a mainframe (VM/CMS,
MVS/CICS,...).  I've read some of IBM's brochures on the RS6000 and
their TCP/IP for the mainframe.  Well, I trust sales brochures just
about as much as I trust any of the Presidential candidates.  I
would like to get the scoop from you people, the experts, who have
actually connected the two machines and are working in a mixed
environment. 

I am not necessarily concerned about using an RS6000 or any
particular vendor's hardware.  I don't want to be locked into a
proprietary solution.  I would like to know however, real hardware
configurations (mainframe and unix), network hardware (tokenring,
eithernet, sneakerNet) and software (TCP, NFS, SNA, APPC, ?)
configurations,  and any other special software configurations.  

I am also interested in connectivity concepts; ways of sharing
data.   The way I see it, distributing data across a multi-machine
network can be categorized in three groups,  application packet
passing, full file transfer, & network packet passing.  Do you
argee with this or have I been smoking to much nuclear waste?

Application Packet Passing (client/server technology) -
     The application bundles its data and sends it to another
     application.  These two application use a specific protocol,
     i.e. APPC, NFS/RPC, TCP-SOCKETS.  

Full file transfer -
     FTP, TAPE, ?  Transferring the data files from one machine two
another.  

Network Packet Passing -
     NFS, ?  This is effectively like having a disk on another
     machine mounted to your local machine.  Your operating system
     thinks that this is a local disk.  This means that a program
     on one machine can perform data access to a file that is on
     another machine.  


I know this is a big subject.  If you can help out in any one or
all of these areas, I would greatly appreciate it.  

Thank you in advance,

John Casey
Xref: sparky comp.protocols.ibm:751 comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc:5444
From: pwilson@world.std.com (Pete Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: New Product: Universal SNMP Agent
Date: 27 Sep 92 14:42:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: world.Bv8rIx.CG2
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA

Of possible interest: Paul Freeman Assoc. announces the Universal SNMP Agent: 
a portable, compact, cost-effective, fully-compliant, multi-MIB Agent for 
installation under DOS as a TSR. For a product description, send e-mail to 
pwilson@world.std.com or call 508-692-4436.
From: louis@netronix.com (Louis Valentino)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm
Subject: Async communications and NetBIOS conflicts?
Distribution: world
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 92 16:29:53 GMT
Organization: Netronix, Inc.

    Help!

    I'm trying to create a program to send packets over the serial
port (COM1) of a 386SX that also has a token-ring card and the IBM
network support programs for NetBIOS installed.  I install my own
interrupt routine and initialize the serial port for 9600 bps.  I can
use the NetBIOS interface without problem until I start processing
packets over the serial link.  Then either the serial link hangs or
the NetBIOS interface hangs.

    I've tried issuing a NetBIOS "RESET ADAPTER" command and adding
the adapter's name.  The reset completes successfully but the
"ADD_NAME" fails with an "adapter error" code (0xF6).

    My setup for the IBM drivers is:

     device = dxma0mod.sys
     device = dxmc0mod.sys ,C800
     device = dxmt0mod.sys E CR=Y S=32 C=99 N=35 RC=10 RV=Y

    Note the "E" parameter for DXMT0MOD.SYS.  According to the
DXMINFO.DOC file supplied by IBM, the "E", or "ENABLE" parameter
"should be used when the computer contains a high-speed asynchronous
adapter used simultaneously with a LAN adapter."  The document
doesn't say why this is needed or what problem it solves.

    I've reached a dead end.  Any ideas on possible causes and
possible solutions would help.  I'll take anything, no matter how
simple or how far fetched it seems.  Please e-mail replys or requests
for more details.  I'll summarize if there is enough interest.

    Thanks in advance for any help.


                            -LDV

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From: DJ07963@SWTEXAS.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm
Subject: help
Date: 28 Sep 92 16:08:00 GMT
Reply-To: BITNIC IBM-NETS List <IBM-NETS%BITNIC.BITNET@cmsa.Berkeley.EDU>
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Help.      dj07963@swtexas.bitnet
From: DAVEW@D.SSS.CO.UK (Dave Wade)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm
Subject: Network Monitors
Date: 6 Oct 92 14:08:28 GMT
Reply-To: BITNIC IBM-NETS List <IBM-NETS%BITNIC.BITNET@cmsa.Berkeley.EDU>
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Hi,
 I have been asked by a company I am doing some work for if I can
find out what types of ethernet monitoring and diagnostic equipment
is recommended for a medium sized site running both Netware and TCPIP.
Currently they have about 10 SUNS and 30 PC's but they are expanding
and I expect they will eventually have about 100 nodes.
 As usual they don't want to spent much money. Any suggestions welcome.
 Thanks in advance.

   Dave Wade.
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm
From: mdivya@world.std.com (Marigowda Divya)
Subject: AS/400
Summary: trying to find AS/400 discussions
Keywords: AS/400
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 11:02:54 GMT

could someone point me to the location of AS/400 related discussions;
I am looking for documents related to the 5250 DSPT (Display Station
Pass Through).

Thanks in advance.

divya
(mdivya@world.std.com)
From: billd@informix.com (William Daul)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm
Subject: Looking for IBM marketing info (online)
Date: 2 Oct 92 21:27:17 GMT
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
Originator: billd@cheetah

This may not be the appropriate place to ask, but...I can't think of a
better place.

Do any of you know what the SUNFlashes are?  They are marketing bulletins
that come out from Sun on the internet to interested folks.  

Do any of you know if IBM has some internet alias which sends out such
information?

Thanks,  --Bill
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 4100 Bohannon Dr.        (415) 926-6488 - wk
 Menlo Park, CA. 94025    uunet!infmx!billd  or  billd@informix.com
From: mike.mcaulay@spacebbs.com (Mike Mcaulay) 
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm
Subject: Calling all EGA/VGA gurus!  Please read!
Date: 28 Sep 92 20:02:00 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: SPACE BBS - Menlo Park, CA - 10 Lines + 4gB - 415-323-4193
Reply-To: mike.mcaulay@spacebbs.com (Mike Mcaulay) 



I don't know if this is appropriate for this group, but I am pretty
desperate, so here goes:

I am in the process of porting a piece of code from VGA Mode 13h (320 X
200, 256 colors) to VGA Mode 12h (640 X 480, 16 colors).  I have art
that has been algorithmically converted to 320 X 200, 16 colors then
touched up by hand.  I am expanding this art by doubling all of the
pixels on the fly when I load the images into memory from disk, and
leaving 40-pixel-tall blank strips at the top and bottom of the screen.
Hence my final image size is 640 X 400.

My problem is that my blit routine is slow.  I am presently using write
mode 0 (byte-at-a-time) and addressing each of the 4 bit planes
separately.  Since I am inexperienced with Mode 12h and EGA-format
graphics in general, I am wondering if I am missing something.  My
understanding is that in mode 12h I do not have access to page flipping.
Is this correct?  If so, does anyone out there have any suggestions for
fast algorithms for moving rectangular regions from main memory to the
screen in this mode?  BTW, as far as the registers go mode 12h behaves
the same as the old EGA mode 10h (640 X 350, 16 colors) for anyone who
has worked with 10h.

I am under rather severe deadline pressure, so prompt advice of any kind
would be greatly appreciated.  However I don't have any choice about
this -- as kludgy as it sounds (is) I *have* to do it, so please spare
the flames.

Please e-mail me as I do not regularly read this group.

Thanks!

M.
                                                                                                                  
Xref: sparky comp.protocols.ibm:750 comp.protocols.tcp-ip:4552 comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc:5443
From: paul@frcs.Alt.ZA (Paul Nash)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: TN3270 with HLLAPI needed for DOS machines on IP network
Date: 27 Sep 92 08:08:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: frcs.1992Sep27.080810.13052
Reply-To: paul@tantrum.csir.co.za
Organization: Free Range Computer Systems CC


We are busy changing our LAN - MVS interconnection from Novell SNA gateway
products (version 1.x is very buggy and unstable, and Netware for SAA
requires a mega-back upgrade to Netware 3.x on 50-odd fileservers).  We 
have decided to use a pair of Sun Sparc-10 machines, with token-ring
adapters into a Mohawk MC400 (3174 clone), and thence the machine.

However, the MIS boyos want to use a product (Software AG's Natural
Connection) on the users' PCs that requires HLLAPI to talk to the host.
Does anyone know of a commercially available (or shareware/freeware)
TN3270 that will TSR-ify itself and present an HLLAPI v3 interface to
the DOS box?  Alternatively, does anyone know whether the source code 
for CUTCP's "microTN" is available for hacking?  Or the e-mail address
of anyone at Clarkson who might be able to make it available?

If we have to, we will write our own interface from scratch (or based
on NCSA's telnet, plus the Unix tn3270).  If we have to do this, it'll
end up being published in alt.sources or some such forum, but I daresay
that this will take more than five minutes -- say three days :-) :-).

Any info welcome, by mail, or FAX.  I fear that snail-mail will take too
long (the Sun machines should be arriving next week).  Please reply to

	Paul Nash	<paul@tantrum.csir.co.za>
	Fax:	intl + 27 + 12 + 841-4109
	Voice:	intl + 27 + 12 + 841-3050

Unfortunately, our newsfeed gets a trifle erratic at times (like goes
down for a few days at a time, as the entire country is at the far end
of a single 9600bps voice-grade line), so I would appreciate mail.  I
_will_ summarise, though, if there is any interest at all.
 
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 Box 12475, Onderstepoort, 0110 South Africa         +27-12-5611879

 "Standards are great -- everyone should have one" (Kent Landfield)
From: Howard Levine <hlevine@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp
Date: 30 Sep 92 19:01 PDT
Subject: Re: PPP for the mac?
Nf-ID: #R:1992Sep28.234633.830@jpl-devvax.:1420940985:cdp:1543600002:000:209
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hlevine    Sep 30 19:01:00 1992


I'm not sure about ppp, but I know that VersaTerm v4.6.1 comes with a
program called VersaTerm ADMIN-Slip which allows SLIP connections
over the modem.  You then can Telnet to other IP hosts.

hlevine@igc.org
From: gambert@screamer.csee.usf.edu (Allen Gambert)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: PPP between sunos 4.1 and mach 386
Date: 25 Sep 92 13:45:29 GMT
Reply-To: gambert@screamer.csee.usf.edu (Allen Gambert)
Organization: University of South Florida at Tampa


I compiled and ran ppp on both my sun IPC and my mach 386, theres only one
problem.  Connecting two 386's together or two suns together works fine.
Its when
connecting a sun to a 386 that gives me a problem.  It seems that the
problem has
to do with the little/big endian issue.  When I turn on debugging I
notice that 
both machines return the ip address in reversed order, that is, my 386
prints 
the address as follows: 234f0105:234f0106 and the sun prints the address
as follows: 06014f23:05014f23.  

I have three questions:

 1) Has anyone succussfully gotten ppp to work between two architectures
that use     little/big endian format, and if so what is the trick?

 2) Where should I start looking in order to isolate the problem?

 3) Where in the code to I need to worry about byte swapping?


I am using the version of ppp for my sun that was done by Brad Clements;
the version that uses the streams based device driver.  My 386 is using
the same code except the device driver is if_ppp.c instead of ppp_if.c
and ppp_async.c.

Any help in solving this matter will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Allen
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp
From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
Subject: Re: Modem Advice
Organization: Morning Star Technologies
	<3841@randvax.rand.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 01:25:32 GMT

In article <3841@randvax.rand.org> edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall) writes:
   One of the reasons re-ordering the transmit queue only produces a
   moderate gain in interactive responsiveness is buffering in the
   modem itself.

Steve Willens at Livingston told me that TOS queue sorting in their
PortMaster terminal server yields observable and measurable
improvements, even over modems.  But we haven't seen that it helps
much in our UNIX environment.

I suspect the difference is that a terminal server's protocol handling
and queue sorting happens so close to the iron.  After our daemon
write()s the packet to /dev/tty, it still must traverse layers of line
disciplines, STREAMS modules, or whatever, each of which adds its own
buffering and therefore its own latency, before it reaches the TD pin
on the serial port.  Any advantage a particular packet gains in queue
sorting is overwhelmed by the flow-smoothing effect of all those
layers.

Of course, this is just my own pessimistic suspicion.  I'd love to
learn someday that the problem resides somewhere we can do something
about it :-)

   Lowering the MTU can help, too, since once a 1500-byte packet
   starts its way to the modem, you're going to have to wait for it to
   finish.

Shrinking your packets is the quickest and easiest thing to do, and
one of the few things a user can affect.  Also, make sure that your
PPP or SLIP does RFC-1144 "VJ" TCP header compression.

   I wish that Unix allowed more tinkering with TCP/IP parameters...

Write to bsdi-info@bsdi.com for information about their
fully-tinkerable UNIX-like operating system.  There's nothing more
adjustable than a tapeful of source.
From: carvalho@tribiet.maintech.com (joe carvalho)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: PPP Routing problem.
Date: 29 Sep 92 06:59:42 GMT
Organization: Tribiet: A city much like hell.

Hi,
I'm running PPP(Morning Star circa '91) and ka9q. PPP runs on a 4/260 
with SunOs 4.1.1. It runs well! I can telnet to my host across the async. 
I can also telnet to another Sparc(slc) on the same net. I can't 
telnet/ping/ftp to a VAX running CMU/tcp. 

I can ping the VAX from both suns. Telnet and ftp work well. No 
connection from the ka9q/pc to the vax. What am I doing wrong?

Anyone running ppp/slip under desqview with a decent terminal emulation? 
Any luck getting PC/NFS to talk to a ppp connection?


ThanX.

Joe Carvalho
Beacher Tool & Die...A Hughe Jorgen Company
1106 2nd Street, Suite 316
Encinitas, CA. 92024
From: Howard Levine <hlevine@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp
Date: 28 Sep 92 00:03 PDT
Subject: problems w/VersaTerm Admin-SLIP
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1543600001:000:374
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hlevine    Sep 28 00:03:00 1992


I am experimenting with the Macintosh desk accessory 
VeraTerm AdminSLIP which comes as part of VersaTerm v4.6.1.  Has anyone
been able to initiate a SLIP connection over the modem and telnet to
Internet hosts using this program?  If so, I would like to know what
kind of succes or failures you have had.  Please post replies here
or send me e-mail.

Thanks,
Howard Levine


Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp