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From: cjr@typhoon.xtel.co.uk (Colin Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: Re: Information on X-tel
Date: 19 Nov 92 09:17:43 GMT
Organization: X-Tel Services Ltd.


In article <john.721975589@citr.uq.oz.au>, john@citr.uq.oz.au (John Gottschalk) writes:
|> 
|> Hello all,
|> 
|> Can anybody sent me information on a company called "X-tel". 

I will send you some information on the company.  

Two of the primary developors of ISODE and PP work for X-Tel.  X-Tel
now offer support of and products based upon ISODE.

The contact address is

    X-Tel Services Ltd
    University Park
    Nottingham		
    NG7 2RD		
    UK

Phone : +44 602 514591
Fax:    +44 602 790278

email:	xtel@xtel.co.uk


Regards, 


Colin
From: scase@email.sp.paramax.com (Steve Case)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: Re: Question on ASN.1 Encodings
Date: 11 Nov 92 17:39:20 GMT
Organization: Paramax -  Eagan, MN
NNTP-Posting-Host: svcase.sp.paramax.com

Sorry, but I made a mistake in my encoding.  The identifier octet should
have been '03'H and not '23'H.  Other than that, the question should be
ok.

Regards,
Steve Case
scase@planet8.sp.unisys.com
From: mpeters@pax.eunet.ch (MBX Michael Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: E1 vs. T1 Signalling
Date: 16 Nov 92 22:14:52 GMT
Organization: EUnet Login/Mailbox Service
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3


Hello,

I'm looking for E1 signalling specifications, and, if possible how they
differ from and relate to T1. Any reference to an FTP site would be
welcomed.

Mike.
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From: yan_arrouye@gateway.qm.apple.com (Yan Arrouye)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: Publ dom impl of RFC1006 for MacTCP?
Date: 16 Nov 92 14:02:38 GMT
Followup-To: comp.protocols.iso
Organization: Apple




Is there any public domain implementation of RFC 1006 on top of MacTCP ?
Otherwise do you know any easy to port public domain implementartion of RFC
1006?

Thanks
Yan
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
From: john@citr.uq.oz.au (John Gottschalk)
Subject: Information on X-tel
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 04:46:29 GMT


Hello all,

Can anybody sent me information on a company called "X-tel". I think that
they come from a University in the UK (University of Notingham perhaps?).
I have heard that they have some relationship with the ISODE software,
but I may be wrong.

			-- regards, John Gottschalk

===================================================================== 
     John Gottschalk (john@citr.uq.oz.au) 
     Centre for Information Technology Research,
     The University of Queensland, 4072, 
     Brisbane, Queensland, Australia,
     +61 7 365 4321 (phone), +61 7 365 4399 (fax)
=====================================================================
From: gering@vnet.ibm.com ( Mike Gering )
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 13:45:27 EST
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: Re: Question on ASN.1 Encodings
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.0

In <1drej9INN8t8@svcase.sp.paramax.com> Steve Case writes:
>I am trying to understand the various ASN.1 encoding and I cannot seem
>to understand how the indefinite form for the length octets can possibly
>work!  To make things simple, let me give you a specific example and
>hopefully someone can clarify the situation for me.
>
>Let's assume we are encoding a bitstring value.  The particular bitstring
>to be encoded is '0900000009'H.  If I use the indefinite length format,
>wouldn't this be encoded as follows:
>
>   BitString Length Contents
>   23        80     000900000009
>
>   EOC       Length
>   00        00
>
>My question, then, is when decoding this octet stream, how do you know
>that the bitstring is '0900000009'H and not '09'H or '090'H or '0900'H
>or '09000'H?  All three of these seem to be possible decodings?
>
>Thank you for any assistance you might be able to give me.
>
>Regards,
>Steve Case
>scase@planet8.sp.paramax.com
>
Indefinite length encoding may only be used when the contents are
constructed.  Your example uses the primitive encoding form for
BIT STRING.

Mike Gering
IBM
Dept. E78, Building 673
RTP, NC 27709
From: scase@email.sp.paramax.com (Steve Case)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: Question on ASN.1 Encodings
Date: 11 Nov 92 17:06:49 GMT
Organization: Paramax -  Eagan, MN
NNTP-Posting-Host: svcase.sp.paramax.com

I am trying to understand the various ASN.1 encoding and I cannot seem
to understand how the indefinite form for the length octets can possibly
work!  To make things simple, let me give you a specific example and
hopefully someone can clarify the situation for me.

Let's assume we are encoding a bitstring value.  The particular bitstring
to be encoded is '0900000009'H.  If I use the indefinite length format, 
wouldn't this be encoded as follows:

   BitString Length Contents
   23        80     000900000009

   EOC       Length
   00        00


My question, then, is when decoding this octet stream, how do you know
that the bitstring is '0900000009'H and not '09'H or '090'H or '0900'H
or '09000'H?  All three of these seem to be possible decodings?

Thank you for any assistance you might be able to give me.

Regards,
Steve Case
scase@planet8.sp.paramax.com
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
From: tain@wrench.bae.bellcore.com (Tai Nguyen)
Subject: Re: Question on ASN.1 Encodings
Organization: Bell Communications Research
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 16:55:16 GMT

In article <1drej9INN8t8@svcase.sp.paramax.com>, scase@email.sp.paramax.com (Steve Case) writes:
|> I am trying to understand the various ASN.1 encoding and I cannot seem
|> to understand how the indefinite form for the length octets can possibly
|> work!  To make things simple, let me give you a specific example and
|> hopefully someone can clarify the situation for me.
|> 
|> Let's assume we are encoding a bitstring value.  The particular bitstring
|> to be encoded is '0900000009'H.  If I use the indefinite length format, 
|> wouldn't this be encoded as follows:
|> 
|>    BitString Length Contents
|>    23        80     000900000009
|> 
|>    EOC       Length
|>    00        00
|> 
|> 
|> My question, then, is when decoding this octet stream, how do you know
|> that the bitstring is '0900000009'H and not '09'H or '090'H or '0900'H
|> or '09000'H?  All three of these seem to be possible decodings?
|> 
Steve,

You cannot use indefinite form for a primitive type, e.g. BIT STRING.
Therefore, the answer is your encoding is invalid.

Tai

|> Thank you for any assistance you might be able to give me.
|> 
|> Regards,
|> Steve Case
|> scase@planet8.sp.paramax.com

-- 
______________________________________________________________________________
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Bell Communication Research 		Phone: (908) 699-7934
444 Hoes Lane Room RRC 1B210
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From: art@acc.com (Art Berggreen)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: Re: Question on ASN.1 Encodings
Date: 21 Nov 92 00:54:29 GMT
Organization: ACC, Advanced Computer Communications

In article <1drej9INN8t8@svcase.sp.paramax.com> scase@email.sp.paramax.com (Steve Case) writes:
>I am trying to understand the various ASN.1 encoding and I cannot seem
>to understand how the indefinite form for the length octets can possibly
>work!  To make things simple, let me give you a specific example and
>hopefully someone can clarify the situation for me.
>
>Let's assume we are encoding a bitstring value.  The particular bitstring
>to be encoded is '0900000009'H.  If I use the indefinite length format, 
>wouldn't this be encoded as follows:
>
>   BitString Length Contents
>   23        80     000900000009
>
>   EOC       Length
>   00        00
>
>
>My question, then, is when decoding this octet stream, how do you know
>that the bitstring is '0900000009'H and not '09'H or '090'H or '0900'H
>or '09000'H?  All three of these seem to be possible decodings?

Indefinite encodings are only legal on constructed types.  Primitive
types must always use definite length encoding.  Thus you can always
find the EOC encoding which terminates the innermost indefinite length
encoding that it terminates.  These things can be nested!!!

>Thank you for any assistance you might be able to give me.
>
>Regards,
>Steve Case
>scase@planet8.sp.paramax.com

Art
From: booloo@framsparc.ocf.llnl.gov (Mark Boolootian)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: Need explanation of User-data encodings
Date: 16 Nov 92 22:00:22 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Greetings,

I am in the process of implementing the ISO presentation protocol and I am
having some trouble understanding the rules to follow for the different
User-Data encodings.  I have been following Rose's "The Open Book" and
reading the CCITT docs (X.226/X.216).

As best as I can gather, I use the Simply-encoded-data alternative when:

    (1) all presentation data values are from the default context, or
    (2) the DCS contains only one context (and the context mgmt function
	unit is not active.

and I use Fully-encoded-data otherwise.


Question1

When setting up the User-data portion of a P-Connect PPDU, I don't really have 
the DCS nailed down yet (the DCS is the result of the negotiation which takes 
place at connection setup).  Do I use my proposed context(s) in lieu of the 
DCS to determine whether to use the Simple or Fully encoded alternative?

Question2

Am I correct that the transfer syntax I use to encode the presentation data 
value(s) is that syntax specified in the DCS corresponding to the PCI contained 
within the PDV?  If so, then the answer to question 1 is very important to me, 
since in the P-Connect PPDU I may be proposing multiple transfer syntaxes.  
How am I to know which syntax to use?  Or do I always use BER?


I hope I have provided sufficient information in my questions.  Any help
would be greatly appreciated.

best regards,
mb
-- 
Mark Boolootian		booloo@llnl.gov		+1 510 423 1948
From: booloo@framsparc.ocf.llnl.gov (Mark Boolootian)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: Does the PS-user encode the User-data parameter?
Date: 16 Nov 92 23:14:49 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory


I have a more fundamental question that the previous one about User-data
encodings.

When issuing a P-CONNECT.REQUEST primitive, one of the parameters the PS-user
may pass is User-data.  In the case of ACSE, this would be an AARQ-apdu.  My
question is this:  Should the ACSE encode the AARQ-apdu into the User-data
parameter, or should this be done by the presentation layer?  My impression
is that since User-data is a parameter of the presentation service, that is
what the PS-user should pass in; thus, ACSE should encode the AARQ-apdu into
User-data.

Comments?

mb
-- 
Mark Boolootian		booloo@llnl.gov		+1 510 423 1948
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.snmp
From: geger@phantom.den.mmc.com (George Eger (303) 971-6974)
Subject: MIB for ntp
Keywords: MIB SNMP 
 
 Has anyone created a SNMP MIB for NTP info?  I would like to be able to
 collect ntp peer and system information and set peer and other info using
 SNMP.  Is there a standard set of what ntp info is visible to a
 management system in a MIB format?
  
Organization: Martin Marietta Astronautics Group
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:46:00 GMT

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From: leinwand@mead.cisco.com (Allan Leinwand)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.snmp
Subject: Re: Problem with Data Reports in SunNet Manager 2.0
Date: 16 Nov 1992 06:05:57 GMT
Organization: cisco Systems, Menlo Park, California, USA
Distribution: inet
NNTP-Posting-Host: mead.cisco.com
Keywords: SunNet Manager

In article <1992Nov10.182225.14099@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> hand@peabody.bae.bellcore.com (25833- Jim Hand(6379)p102) writes:
>Error: Request encBox:
>  Agent error: agent error 0: cannot find group: "encBox" in
>schema: "ciscoMmib" or default schema: "snmp-mibII"
>
>	Does anyone have any idea what I might be doing wrong?  Thanks
>in advance.

Hello Jim,

   This question should most likely be addressed with SunConnect, but
I'll be willing to give it my best shot.  1) SNM 1.2 uses a file
called /var/adm/anm/snmp.hosts.  This file may not be needed anymore
if you can query the proxy host directly.  I would check to make sure
that the default schema in this file for the host you are setting up a
Data Report is correct.  Ideally, if you can, remove this file as SNM
2.0 does not need it anymore.  2) Make sure that the Property sheet
for the device you are setting up the Data Report for has all the
appropriate schemas checked.  Let's say that the group encBox exists
in the enc MIB.  Make sure you have the enc box checked on the device
you are trying to query.

   If you still cannot figure out your problem, I would contact SunConnect
directly.  By the way, I think there is a SNM users mailing list
somewhere for these types of issues (again, ask Sun :-).

Thanks,

Allan Leinwand
cisco Systems
(415) 688-7653
leinwand@cisco.com

Newsgroups: comp.protocols.snmp
From: rete@cs.curtin.edu.au (Packet Analyser)
Subject: ASN.1 specifications
Keywords: ASN.1, IP protocols
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 11:50:38 GMT

Anyone got any ASN.1 specifications for protocols such as IP, TCP, UDP,
Telnet?  If not where would I find examples of such a definition (ie.
books, ftp sites, whatever).

What I really want to be able to do is specify exactly how an ethernet
is divided up into its various constituent protocol fields.  I really
need a flash language to do this (ASN.1 ?).

Thanx in advance for any help, George.

--
I disclaim everything.
rete@cs.curtin.edu.au
--
george - My opinions are my own and I don't apologise for them,
	 which is probably why I don't have many friends.
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.snmp
Subject: How to measure the load of a remote host.
From: imtst@icarus.lis.pitt.edu (I-Ming Tsai)
Date: 18 Nov 92 17:33:47 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Originator: imtst@icarus.lis.pitt.edu


Hi, experts:

	I am new to SNMP, and I have a simple question:

	Is there any way (by snmp or any method ... ) I can measure
	the load on a remote host without login to that host.
	I have played with some SNMP package these days. But it seems
	to me that you can not determine the load just by looking at
	how many packets has been discarded due to resource limitation
	or how many packets been discarded due to error .... right ?

        Thanks for any comment.

-- Tsai
From: Cheng_Yang@Novell.COM (Cheng Yang)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.snmp
Subject: Problems when built ISODE v.8.0 on Solaris 2.0
Date: 16 Nov 92 20:43:58 GMT
Organization: Novell, Inc.


Has anyone here tried to build Marshall T. Rose's ISODE v8.0 package on SUN 
Solaris 2.0?

I tried to build it using either pure SVR4 or SVR4 with BSD extension 
configuration files.  Using SunPro's SPARCompiler C for Solaris 2.0.
Both failed.  

If I build it with BSD extension, it can't find "/usr/include/sys/mbuf.h" 
and gave me a lot of syntax error, when compile imisc directory.   

If I build it as SVR4, it give error message like "Undefined Symbol:
getdtablesize"..  

I would appriciate if someone can give me some clue on how to make it work
on Solaris 2.0 box.  It would be extremely helpful if someone could me some
idea how to modify the CONFIG.make and config.h files.

Thanks a lot for your time in advance.


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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.snmp
From: chesney@obiwan.fsl.noaa.gov (Scott Chesney)
Subject: Query: network monitoring packages
Organization: Forecast Systems Labs, NOAA, Boulder, CO USA
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:20:18 GMT


	I am trying to evaluate and reccomend a network monitoring package
for our ever expanding LAN. We currently have ~100-150 nodes on ethernet
using DECnet and tcp/ip. We will be using fiber in the future. The questions
I'm trying to answer follow. If there is enough interest, I'll summarize to 
the net.

	What are you using for network monitoring? What features do you
find most useful? Most annoying? What additional features would you like
to see? DO you think you will be using this software a year from now? In
five years? What have your experiences been with this software, positive or
negative? If you had to do it again, what would you change? 

	On what platform is your package presently running?  On what
other platforms can it be used? Is your shop a multivendor or single
vendor workplace?  Does the package you're using have problems montoring
any particular vendors' hardware?  Whose?  Do you know why?  If you could
choose another platform on which to run your monitoring package whose 
would you choose and why?

Thanks in advance.
	Scott				chesney@fsl.noaa.gov
	Forecast Syustems Labs		(303) 497-6342
	Boulder, CO

Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm,bit.listserv.ibm-main,bit.listserv.ibm-nets,bit.listserv.ibmtcp-l,bit.listserv.tn3270-l
From: ehrlich@world.std.com (Stuart R Ehrlich)
Subject: Need 3270 Asian language/DBCS emulator
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 05:34:30 GMT

I need a 3270 emulator that support Asian language double byte character
sets.  I will be connecting to a mainframe in Taiwan.  The type of
connection doesn't matter too much; i.e. either SNA/SDLC, tn3270 TCP/IP,
or (shudder) bisync.  What 3270 emulators are available that support
this DBCS feature?  Is there an emulator for the RS/6000 that will do this?
From: dboyes@is.rice.edu (David E Boyes)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm
Subject: Re: Kermit file transfers thru 3174 AEA
Date: 21 Nov 92 04:32:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: rice.By1ty6.Bo8
Organization: Rice University

In article <19921119133852.Roger.Wilfong@umich.edu> Roger.Wilfong@umich.edu  (Roger Wilfong) writes:
>In Article <92322.105606DEEHRE01@ulkyvm.louisville.edu> "David Ehresman <DEEHRE01@ulkyvm.louisville.edu>" says:
>> Has anyone successfully done file transfers between MSDOS and VM
>> using Kermit and going thru an IBM 3174 controller with the AEA
>> feature?  If so, could you tell me the appropriate settings for
>> the CMS-KERMIT and the MSDOS-Kermit?

What microcode level is in the 3174? You must have the B series
microcode to get transparent mode support; A or S series ucode
won't support Kermit file transfers.

You should also get the latest CMS Kermit from
watsun.cc.columbia.edu. The 3708 situation is much improved, and
that version is known to work with 3174/AEA with rev B ucode.



-- 
David Boyes
dboyes@rice.edu
From: jat@eb4ts1.EBay.Sun.COM (Jeff Townsend)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm
Subject: can a ibm computer talk to a TDD?
Date: 18 Nov 1992 23:07:02 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.  Mt. View, Ca.
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: jat@eb4ts1.EBay.Sun.COM (Jeff Townsend)
NNTP-Posting-Host: eb4ts1.ebay.sun.com

I was wondering if it was posible to talk to a TDD from my IBM clone.
If so what protocols would I need and would I need software.
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm
From: cjc@nwu.edu (Christopher J. Chen)
Subject: Laserwriter as VTAM node?
Followup-To: comp.protocols.ibm
Organization: Northwestern University
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:45:55 GMT

I've got some people here who would like to print to their Laserwriter on
Appletalk from a 3090.  My systems people tell me that I need to find a
way to make that Laserwriter a VTAM node, but they don't know how to do
it.

Does anyone have any pointers?  I'd really appreciate it.


cjc
--
Christopher J. Chen  cjc@nwu.edu  (708) 491-4109  (708) 491-3824 fax
Academic Computing and Network Services, Northwestern University
"Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and the only
one
 that can be mass produced with unskilled labor."
                                        -- Wernher von Braun
From: mathieu@boole (Philippe Mathieu (Hiv91))
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm
Subject: Protocols?
Date: 17 Nov 92 04:38:48 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]



	I'd like to know where I could find the standards for Xmodem, Ymodem, 
Zmodem and Kermit protocols. Thanks in advance.


--
Philippe Mathieu

   " This is a test..." , Ministry
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm
From: Roger.Wilfong@umich.edu  (Roger Wilfong)
Subject: Re: Kermit file transfers thru 3174 AEA
Organization: UofM Hospitals
X-Newsreader: FTPNuz (DOS) v1.0
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:38:00 GMT

In Article <92322.105606DEEHRE01@ulkyvm.louisville.edu> "David Ehresman <DEEHRE01@ulkyvm.louisville.edu>" says:
> Has anyone successfully done file transfers between MSDOS and VM
> using Kermit and going thru an IBM 3174 controller with the AEA
> feature?  If so, could you tell me the appropriate settings for
> the CMS-KERMIT and the MSDOS-Kermit?
> 
 
The problem is more than just 'setting'.
  
We have used Kermit through a Series/1-Yale ASCII interface and a 3708 to 
MVS.  The two versions of MVS/Kermit that were used were written specifically 
for these two protocol converters (and the 3708 version requires a special 
3708 config).  We have never located a version of Kermit that would work with
the 3174/AEA.  
  
You ever considered FTP?  
 
Xref: sparky comp.protocols.ibm:825 bit.listserv.snamgt-l:15 comp.os.vms:18363 vmsnet.networks.misc:126
From: bg@dymaxion.ns.ca
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm,bit.listserv.snamgt-l,comp.os.vms,vmsnet.networks.misc
Subject: Running VAX/VMS application over IBM SNA network
Date: 23 Nov 92 16:10:12 AST
Organization: Dymaxion Research Limited, NS, Canada

We are trying to determine our options for making use of an existing
IBM SNA network for users to access an application on a VAX to eliminate
having to install another leased line network.  The network connects 100+
schools so it would be expensive to duplicate.

It would be nice if the existing 3270 terminals could be used, ideally but
necessarily emulating VT100 terminals.  An approach requiring separate
terminals would be fine since the department that would be accessing our
application is going to need another terminal, or PC emulating a VT100,
in most cases anyways

We are flexible as to how the vax is connected to the IBM mainframe or
directly to the SNA network

Any ideas?
--
Ben Armstrong, Software Development                  bus: (902)422-1973
Dymaxion Research Ltd.,                              fax: (902)421-1267
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3J 1R2            Internet: bg@dymaxion.ns.ca
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm