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Date: 30 JUL 92 03:02:13 GMT
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
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Subject: Re: Possible Bug?? (fwd)
X-RFC822-From: Harry Hopcroft <hopcroft@polar.bowdoin.edu>
From: Harry Hopcroft <hopcroft@polar.bowdoin.edu>
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL0]
Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community

> 
>     The default MultiNet installation has POSTMASTER set to SYSTEM
> for this reason. Whatever the destination of the POSTMASTER account, it
> should have forwarding disabled and perhaps even be on the system
> disk with a lot of quota to prevent this problem.
> 
> 							    Ken
> 
Ken, what does "POSTMASTER set to SYSTEM" actually mean? I don't know of any
aliasing system or anything like that.  On our other VAX, also running
Multinet, I did notice that POSTMASTER and SYSTEM have the same UIC, and that
is how I set up the problem system this morning.  Should the SMTP symbiont
really have been just as happy sending the response to SYSTEM even without
POSTMASTER being defined in SYSUAF.DAT?  Or do both need to be defined, but
giving them the same UIC mean both read the same mail?

Thanks!

Harry Hopcroft
hopcroft@polar.bowdoin.edu
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Date: 30 JUL 92 01:00:15 GMT
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
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X-RFC822-From:    busma @ TGV.COM (Jeffrey D. Busma)
From: busma@TGV.COM
Subject: RE: RFC 1339 support: Remote Mail Checking Protocol.
Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community

From: Sanjay Kapur <SKAPUR@ccmail.sunysb.edu>
> 
>Are there any plans to support RFC 1339 in Multinet?  It seems to fit with 
>POP quite nicely but avoids the overhead of POP, especially if Multinet is 
>declared security conscious and just checks the VMS mail profile file and not 
>a user's MAIL.MAI and does not send out time stamps.

 
	Currently no active plans. 

	Do you have clients that check for mail in this way?


							Jeff
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
Subject: RFC931 - Authentication Server Protocol
From: archerb@gawain.umkc.edu (Barry Archer)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:50:20 GMT
Reply-To: archerb@gawain.umkc.edu (Barry Archer)
Organization: UMKC Academic Computing Services


  Does anyone have any comments on, or know of an implementation that can be 
used with Multinet v3.1 of, RFC931, aka the Authentication Server Protocol.

Thanks.

--
Barry Archer 
archerb@gawain.umkc.edu	


  "Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty."
	- Friedrich Nietzsche


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Date: 30 JUL 92 15:06:49 GMT
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
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X-RFC822-From: Ned Freed <NED@INNOSOFT.COM>
From: Ned Freed <NED@INNOSOFT.COM>
Subject: Re: RFC 1339 support: Remote Mail Checking Protocol.
X-VMS-To: IN%"skapur@ccmail.sunysb.edu"
X-VMS-Cc: IN%"info-multinet@tgv.com"
Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community

> Most users are more interested in the presence or absence of new mail and for 
> them a simple check of the VMSMAIL profile should be good enough.  The time 
> stamps are more or less optional and I do not see any way of implementing them 
> in VMS.  The section "Server Implementation Notes" in RFC 1339 provides for a 
> way of not implementing time stamps.

Sorry, in my opinion the notion of a simple check of the information in the
profile file is a nonstarter. The idea behind this protocol is to see if any
new mail messages have arrived _since you last checked in and read your mail_.
The only information in the profile file is whether or not there are any
messages you haven't read. This is a very different beast.

> A client makes a request and sends the username.  The server asks for the 
> password (unless the ipaddress/port/maildrop triple is stored) and checks 
> the SYSUAF for password and existence of account.  If the account does 
> not exist, zeros are sent back.  If the account exists, the VMSMAIL profile is 
> checked for new mail.  If new mail exists or the number of records in the 
> user's MAIL.MAI is more than one, an appropriate response is send back for New 
> mail or Old Mail.

My count of new mail messages hasn't been zero even once in the past five
years. In my experience most users who get mail even intermittently have
nonzero mail counts.

Another problem is that certain kinds of delivery to VMS MAIL don't increment
the new mail count. So it is possible for mail to arrive without the the
profile file knowing about it.

This protocol is very carefully specified to avoid use of unread message counts
and instead uses time stamps to obtain its information. I cannot help but think
that there are good reasons for this (I've mentioned a bunch of the ones that
apply on VMS), and that an implementation that uses message counts to obtain
its results is violating the intent of the protocol.

> The current POP protocol has too much overhead which includes a process 
> creation and much more work on the part of the server.

No argument. I think this protocol is a good idea. However, I think that
without some meaningful support in both the delivery and user agents there is
no way to return useful information from VMS systems. Please note that I don't
think this is necessarily an impossible thing to do; it just requires some
coordinated development work.

				Ned

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Date: 22 JUL 92 20:10:42 GMT
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
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X-RFC822-From:     adelman (Kenneth Adelman) @ TGV.COM
From: adelman@TGV.COM
Subject:  Re: Will Multinet come to DEC OSF/1 V1.0 ?
Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community

>	  My customer loves Multinet (so do I).  Is it coming to
>	  DEC OSF/1 V1.0... on MIPS ?  on Alpha ?

    It is coming to VMS on Alpha; we have it running in the porting
centers already.

>	  Why isn't Multinet one of the things DEC resells or
>	  whatever, anyway ?

    Don't know; I suppose you should ask your employer!

							    Ken
From: ACSSYSMA%EKU.bitnet@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
Subject: Anyone using bootp and kermit with Multinet?
Date: 29 Jul 92 16:53:10 GMT
Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community
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X-RFC822-From: ACSSYSMA%EKU.bitnet@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
X-Envelope-to: info-multinet@tgv.com
X-VMS-To: IN%"info-multinet@tgv.com"

I am seeking information on how to setup the bootp-server.configuration file
for use with Kermit(TCP).  We are using asynch kermit now and have been
experimenting with the TCP option.  It is the right price...free!  Kermit has
an option to boot under TCP without knowing its IP number using BOOTP.  I am
currently trying to get this to work but I just really dont understand exactly
what I must have in the configuration file to get this to work.  I have the
RFC's on Bootp and they gave me some ideas but as of yet I dont have it working.

I am hoping someone else out in netland has done this and is willing to share
how they configured Multinet and Kermit to get it to work.

If you dont mind placing the IP number in the configuration file KERMIT/TCP
seems to work very well with Multinet I just dont want to do this in our
environment unless I have no other options.

Melvin Alcorn
Eastern Kentucky University

X-Gateway-Source-Info: INTERNET
Date: 22 JUL 92 22:12:37 GMT
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
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X-RFC822-From:     adelman (Kenneth Adelman) @ TGV.COM
From: adelman@TGV.COM
Subject:  Re: .rhosts question on multinet -- Potential FAQ
Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community

> I need to do he following from several unix machines.

> barbour% rsh VMS-WITH-MULTI-NET -l vms-username vms-command

> I tried creating a .rhosts file on the vms side with a line in it that
> looks like

> unix-machine.domain.gov +

> but this does not seem to work.  Is there a way to accomplish such a
> thing with multinet?	Any ideas on how I can debug the problem.  I'm
> very familliar with VMS and tcp/ip in general, but not multinet.

    If you want this to work no matter which user it comes from on
the UNIX side, you need to have MultiNet V3.1 installed and set
up the VMS account so it has no password.

							Ken
From: ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
Subject: NFS to MVS
Date: 27 Jul 92 15:17:11 -0700
Organization: BC Systems Corporation

According to my IBM people just installing NFS on MVS, I need the commands
mvslogin, mvslogout, and showattr on the client.  IBM has supplied code for
these for AIX, Unix, OS/2 and DOS.

Has anybody ported these to MultiNet yet?

Thanks,
	.../Ed
-- 

Ed Wilts, BC Systems Corp., 4000 Seymour Place, Victoria, B.C., Canada, V8X 4S8
EWilts@Galaxy.Gov.BC.CA   |   Ed.Wilts@BCSystems.Gov.BC.CA   |   (604) 389-3430
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Date: 29 JUL 92 22:57:47 GMT
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
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Subject: Possible Bug??
X-RFC822-From: Harry Hopcroft <hopcroft@polar.bowdoin.edu>
From: Harry Hopcroft <hopcroft@polar.bowdoin.edu>
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL0]
Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community

We had an interesting occurrence this week in which the SMTP symbiont seemed
to be running amok.  It used up virtually all of the CPU time and was filling
up the system disk.  Examination showed that it was repeatedly trying to send
an undeliverable mail message to the Postmaster.  The Postmaster account was,
however, missing.   One reasonably might ask, of course, how THAT situation
came about and I have no answer yet, but it did occur.  When SMTP tried to
return undeliverable mail to the postmaster, the effort generated an
"undeliverable mail" error, so SMTP tried to send that to the postmaster,etc.

Clearly the proximate cause of the problem here is the absence of the
postmaster account, and the problem went away when we simply added such an
account, but we wonder if maybe a trap couldn't be put into the code
someplace that would abort such an infinite loop.  Maybe the errant message
could be sent to SYSTEM instead of postmaster if two "undeliverable" messages
in a row are generated.
From: busma@TGV.COM
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
Subject: Re: Support for IMAP mail clients?
Date: 30 Jul 92 19:08:19 GMT
Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community
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X-RFC822-From:    busma @ TGV.COM (Jeffrey D. Busma)


 
From: rainwatr@ucbeh.san.uc.edu
> 
>	Does Multinet support (or plan to support) IMAP mail clients? 
>We're starting to evaluate our email client options, and someone mentioned
>that IMAP is supposed to be "better" than POP.
>
	MultiNet currently does not have an IMAPx server.
	While  TGV may develop an IMAPx server in a future release, there are no 	
	plans at this time to support IMAPx. (x=version 2 or 3)

	We considered doing so 1-1/2 years ago, however IMAP clients
	were not in  abundance.

>	While I'm at it, can someone tell me where I can get more
>information about IMAP?  Thanks.
 
	IMAP2 is documented in RFC1172
	IMAP3 is documented in RFC1203

							Jeff

X-Gateway-Source-Info: INTERNET
Date: 23 JUL 92 22:32:53 GMT
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
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X-RFC822-From:     adelman (Kenneth Adelman) @ TGV.COM
From: adelman@TGV.COM
Subject:  Re: Telnet/log/port=25 records only one side of interaction
Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community

>	  I was trying to use telnet/log/port=25 to debug some mail questions.
> When I do this I only see the strings that the remote sends me.  I do NOT
> see the text I sent the remote.  Can I get the text that I sent echoed to the
> logfile as well?  The logging works fine if I connect to the normal telnet
> port.

    There is no way to get it echoed into the log file right now. This
will be fixed in the next release of MultiNet.

							    Ken
From: ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
Subject: Re: SYSMAN and MultiNet show/stat=prot
Date: 22 Jul 92 12:31:40 -0700
Organization: BC Systems Corporation

In article <1992Jul21.190909.719@galaxy.gov.bc.ca>, ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts) writes:
> I'm having problems running MultiNet from within SYSMAN on our cluster.  I
> simply do the following:
> $ mc sysman
> set env/node=(mars,venus,juno,orion,saturn)
> do multinet show/stat=prot
> exit
> $ exit
> 
> Doing this I usually get my output truncated on all nodes except the one that
> invokes the command.  The number of lines I get varies from invocation to
> invocation.  TGV is unable to duplicate this so I'd appreciate some help on
> narrowing this one down.  If you can duplicate this, please e-mail me (feel
> free to cc: service@tgv.com if you think it's a MultiNet bug) with the VMS
> version you're running and the image file id (from ana/image) of SMISERVER and
> SYSMAN.  We're certainly running a patched version of SMISERVER so it may be a
> problem here.

Following up to my own post, I can now state that this is NOT a MultiNet bug. 
Ken Adelman @ TGV wrote a short test program that duplicates the bug here.  Run
the following program inside of Sysman and see how many lines you get (you
should get 100 numbered 0 to 99).  I'm now in the process of logging the
problem with Digital.  Thanks to all that responded.  My SMISERVER is X-24. 
SYSMAN is X-38.  Both are dated 11-Apr-1992.

/*Last Modified: 22-JUL-1992 11:00:24 by EWILTS : FOO.C*/
#include <stdio.h>
/*
 *	Duplicate SYSMAN bug
 */
main()
{
	int i;
	for (i=0; i<100; i++) {
	    printf("\t%10.10u SYSMAN messages output\n", i);
	}
}

--
Ed Wilts, BC Systems Corp., 4000 Seymour Place, Victoria, B.C., Canada, V8X 4S8
EWilts@Galaxy.Gov.BC.CA   |   Ed.Wilts@BCSystems.Gov.BC.CA   |   (604) 389-3430
From: HOWLE1@AppleLink.Apple.COM
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
Subject: NFS Share and Multinet sites
Date: 22 Jul 92 02:06:52 GMT
Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community
X-Gateway-Source-Info: INTERNET
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X-RFC822-From: HOWLE1@AppleLink.Apple.COM (Howle, Derek)

I am looking for a site that is using Multinet on the VAX with Macintosh
clients.  Specifically, Macs using InterCon's NFS share.  How well does this
work together?
 
Please send responses to:    howle1@apple.com  or AppleLink  HOWLE1
 
 
Thanks,
 
Derek Howle
Sr. Systems Engineer
Apple Computer
Dallas, TX
From: busma@TGV.COM
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
Subject: RE: rmt on IRIX 4.0.5
Date: 21 Jul 92 18:04:37 GMT
Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community
X-Gateway-Source-Info: INTERNET
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X-RFC822-From:    busma @ TGV.COM (Jeffrey D. Busma)


 
>A few days ago, someone from TGV posted something about testing the multinet 
>rmt
>client with an IRIX (8mm?) tape drive. I'd be interested in hearing the results
>of said testing. We are currently running 4.0.4, so we can't help as yet. If
>you didn't find anyone, we could upgrade, but I don't know that we've gotten
>the distribution of 4.0.5.
>
 
	I haven't had any responses for IRIX 4.0.5 and 8mm.
	I do know 2 customers that have been told they will receive
	4.0.5 as soon at it starts/resumes shipping.

	I have only had about 4 responses RE: SunOS 4.0.2 and 8mm, so
	far I haven't been able to use them in testing for one reason or
	another.

	I'm am told by SGI that 4.0.5 will work like VMS tape drive, and that
	previous versions 8mm drivers had problems. I was not allowed to 		
	actually test RMTALLOC over the net to 4.0.5 in order to confirm this. 

								Jeff
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
Subject: lpr/lpd question
From: tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot)
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 12:03:38 CST
Reply-To: tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot)
Organization: The McCall Pattern Co., Manhattan, KS, USA
Nntp-Posting-User: tp


Nutshell: Does Multinet LPR client insert page breaks into a file being shipped
from VMS to unix, and if so, how to stop it?

I'm trying to track a problem, and Multinet is one of several possible culprits.
Briefly (I hope) here's what I'm doing. I am routing a postscript plot file
(yes, plot, not print) from the VMS system to an Intergraph that will interpret
it and plot it on a Versatec plotter. I use the standard VMS print command to a
queue set up as an LPR queue using Multinet and targetted towards the
Intergraph. The Intergraph then moves the plotter over to yet another queueing
system, their Network Queuing System (NQS), which drives the plotter. Under NQS,
I've installed a shell script that has to do some preprocessing on the file

The problem:

In working on the shell script I've discovered that somewhere in this pipeline,
something has inserted page breaks by changing some of the newlines (I counted
55 in the dump listing, but that's probably not a good count) to carriage
return-formfeed sequences. Notice that's a return, not a newline (linefeed), so
unix doesn't see the lines before and after the change as separate lines, it
sees them as one line with a couple of control characters in the middle. This
screws up my preprocessing when it happens to lines I'm interested in, since I'm
running them through sed.

If Multinet or VMS is doing this, how do I stop it? It could be on the
Intergraph side in the routine that moves the file to NQS, I'll be asking those
folks also.

Thanks.
--
Terry Poot <tp@mccall.com>                   The McCall Pattern Company
(uucp: ...!rutgers!depot!mccall!tp)          615 McCall Road
(800)255-2762, in KS (913)776-4041           Manhattan, KS 66502, USA
From: a_millsbs@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
Subject: IP assignment software
Date: 22 Jul 92 12:15:28 CST
Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University


Does anyone out there have any software to help in assigning IP numbers?

We have several people on campus who need to be able to quickly reserve an IP
number when they go out to do installs/setup.  It would be ideal if we had some
menu driven software that given information such as  building/location, machine
type, etc  would quickly search through a database and reserve for you the next 
available IP address.  Also, we keep information such  location, username,
machine type, network software used, phone number, etc. for each IP assignment.

I would like software to run on a SCO UNIX, NeXT, or VMS host but I'll take
what I can get.

If I cant find some preexisting software I am going to whip something up with
INGRES or INFORMIX or INTEGRA  or whichever suits my fancy at the time but I
thought mebbe someone out there could same me the time and trouble.

Thanks in advance,

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From: adelman@TGV.COM
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
Subject: Re: Anyone using bootp and kermit with Multinet?
Date: 29 Jul 92 16:53:19 GMT
Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community
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X-RFC822-From:     adelman (Kenneth Adelman) @ TGV.COM

> I am seeking information on how to setup the bootp-server.configuration file
> for use with Kermit(TCP).  We are using asynch kermit now and have been
> experimenting with the TCP option.  It is the right price...free!  Kermit has
> an option to boot under TCP without knowing its IP number using BOOTP.  I am
> currently trying to get this to work but I just really dont understand exactly
> what I must have in the configuration file to get this to work.  I have the
> RFC's on Bootp and they gave me some ideas but as of yet I dont have it working.

> I am hoping someone else out in netland has done this and is willing to share
> how they configured Multinet and Kermit to get it to work.

> If you dont mind placing the IP number in the configuration file KERMIT/TCP
> seems to work very well with Multinet I just dont want to do this in our
> environment unless I have no other options.

    Probably something like:

tiger:\
	:tc=kermit-setup:\
	:ha=020304050607:\
	:ip=1.2.3.4:

kermit-setup:\
	:ht=ethernet:\
	:gw=1.2.3.1:\
	:sm=255.255.255.0:\
	:ds=1.2.3.2:

    Where you replace the IP addresses of the machine, gateway, domain
nameserver, and Ethernet address in the above example.

							    Ken
X-Gateway-Source-Info: INTERNET
From: PAVER@Maximillion.mcc.com (Bob Paver)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
Subject: Re:  Support for IMAP mail clients?
Date: 31 Jul 92 03:11:56 GMT
Organization: MCC, MIS/Telecomm
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X-RFC822-From: Bob Paver <PAVER@Maximillion.mcc.com>
X-Phone: (512) 338-3316
X-FAX: (512) 338-3888

> 	While I'm at it, can someone tell me where I can get more
> information about IMAP?  Thanks.
> --
> Don Rainwater, Systems Manager, Univ. of Cincinnati Center for IT Services
> Don.Rainwater@UC.Edu
> 

Check out FTP.CAC.WASHINGTON.EDU, particularly the /imap directory.  IMAP
server and clients are there.  Think I saw some RFC's as well.  I've been
experimenting with MailStrom (Macintosh IMAP client) running the imapd
server on a SUN.

It's main attraction for me is that it leaves the mail on the server which
would be useful for some of my users who are "multi-homed."  Sometimes in
Austin, sometimes in DC, sometimes in an airport somewhere.

The IMAP stuff originates in great part from Mark Crispin (one of) THE
father(s) of MM on the DEC-20 (R.I.P.).  And some of the Macintosh 
client is reminescent of MM-20/32.  The concept of expunge and the
use of CMD-K to delete a message come to mind.

All in all, I still like and use Eudora on my Macintosh and MM-32 on
the VAX.  I can still type faster than I can point and click!

-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Bob Paver  ---->  paver@mcc.com  OR  cs.utexas.edu!milano!paver

Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp (MCC)
3500 West Balcones Center Drive
Austin, Texas 78759-6509             (512) 338-3316
X-Gateway-Source-Info: INTERNET
Date: 24 JUL 92 20:38:28 GMT
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
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X-RFC822-From:     adelman (Kenneth Adelman) @ TGV.COM
From: adelman@TGV.COM
Subject:  Re: Will Multinet come to DEC OSF/1 V1.0 ?
Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community

>>
>>     It is coming to VMS on Alpha; we have it running in the porting
>> centers already.

> Will it be available for customer pre-release by September?  Our DEC
> sales-people have promised us an Alpha workstation for testing around
> Labor Day and we want to be able to run Multinet on it, since we are
> a very mixed environment.

    It should be. A lot of it depends on exactly when we receive
our workstation, but I believe delivery to be imminent.

							Ken

X-Gateway-Source-Info: INTERNET
Date: 30 JUL 92 00:59:50 GMT
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
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X-RFC822-From:    KEITHKM@GAV.GAT.COM (Kristi)
From: KEITHKM@GAV.GAT.COM
Subject: task-to-task conversion
X-Vmsmail-To: SMTP%"info-multinet@tgv.com"
Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community

       We are converting a task-to-task DECnet program to run over TCP/IP
  and talk to UNIX hosts as well as VMS hosts. Using DECnet we could take
  advantage of the cluster alias. (One name alias for multiple nodes in a
  cluster; when used, connections go to each node in the cluster in a round
  robin fashion.) Is there an equivalent for TCP/IP?

  Thanks...

  Kristi Keith
  General Atomics, San Diego
  keithkm@gav.gat.com