[Info-vax] Rethinking DECNET ?

[Javier Henderson]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Johnny Billquist via Info-vax <
info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:

> On 2014-09-04 12:29, Javier Henderson wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 4:32 AM, Jan-Erik Soderholm via Info-vax <
>> info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:
>>
>>  And since "DECnet over IP" is based on the specification for "OSI over
>>> IP",
>>> I'd guess that you can't easily shoehorn that into DECnet IV. Either you
>>> would change DECnet IV to use the ISO model (but then you have DECnet V),
>>> or you develope a whole other interface to IP not based on "OSI over IP".
>>>
>>>
>> MultiNet has "IP services for DECnet", which presents a DECnet-like
>> interface but uses IP.
>>
>> "DECnet application services let applications designed to execute over
>> DECnet to execute over TCP/IP instead. DECnet application services provide
>> the same DECnet API (Application Programmer Interface) seamlessly across
>> TCP without DECnet protocols or software, and without the additional
>> overhead of running both protocol stacks."
>>
>
> This sounds interesting, and not something I've seen anything about before.
> Do you have any more details on how this is implemented


MultiNet is a pre-requisite, IP services for DECnet is a component of it.

You configure using it the appropriately named NOT-CONFIG utility, the
details are in MultiNet's documentation, which these days is owned by
Process Software.

-jav (formerly of TGV)