[Info-vax] booting vaxstation off alpha

[Hans Vlems]

On 11 feb, 16:22, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
Koehler) wrote:
> In article <8da55823-8896-4ef9-a1e9-80ce41019... at fv9g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>, Hans Vlems <hvl... at freenet.de> writes:
>
>
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> > The last paragraph reads as if DECnet isn't available over DSSI, did I
> > get that right?
> > (obviously not because it is....).
> > So what wasn't available over DSSI which was over the good old CI?
> > Hans
>
>    The full WAN capabilities of DECnet are not available over DSSI,
>    but you can set host to a DSSI controller and interact with it.

The SET HOST command to access a DSSI device has nothing to do with
DECnet.
And sitting on a VAX (or Alpha) with just a DECnet CI-n.m circuit
available gives you the
same possibilities as on a VAX with, say, a QNA-0 circuit. Like
accessing a WAN.
The other end of the CI-n.m circuit ought to have (at least)  circuit
routing capabilities
of course, otherwise the rest of the LAN, let alone a WAN, wouldn't be
reachable.
Just for this purpose the requirement was that at least one node in a
CI or DSSI cluster
had to be a routing node. Of course it had nothing to do with the
price difference between
a DVNETEND and DVNETRTG license....

Hans