[Info-vax] decnet guide

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <0bdf6774-9ef3-4467-9c87-0bf36a6f32ee at googlegroups.com>,
Steven Schweda <sms.antinode at gmail.com> writes: 

> > [...] But I believe decnet plus is needed for tcp/ip. [...]
> 
>    Not really.  DECnet-Plus (also known as DECnet Phase V)
> can use IP as a transport, which was less true for non-Plus
> (Phase IV) DECnet, but neither is needed if all you want is
> to use IP networking.  It's possible to install TCPIP with or
> without DECnet.  

And DECnet with or without TCP/IP.

> And if you have only one VMS system, then
> any variety of DECnet may be of little use to you.

True in some sense, but one can still get some experience on one system. 
Little point, though, if more than one is not planned for the future.

The OSU web server uses DECnet even on one node: the startup procedure 
calls itself over DECnet, and DECnet is used for persistent processes.
It can run without DECnet using a mailbox instead.  In fact, I've been 
running it like this for almost 25 years.  Maybe I'll have time soon to 
finally configure DECnet.  :-|