Decnet-tcp/ip gateway.

[Braham Levy]

>From postnews Thu May 30 12:20:22 1991

In article <1991May29.151258.19842 at augean.ua.OZ.AU>, idall at augean.ua.oz.au (Ian Dall) writes:
> 
> We have a zillion Vaxes and one lonely DecStation. The DecStation has
> Decnet and the decnet-tcp/ip gateway software (as well, of course as
> tcp-ip). We also have some tcp-ip only X terminals.
> 
> What we want to be able to do is run DecWindows clients on the VMS
> machines and have them use the X server on the X terminals. Is this
> possible? We would very much prefer a solution which ran on the
> DecStation rather than the VMS machines since we would have to get
> rather a lot of licences if we had the VMS solution (unless one VMS
> machine could act as a gateway).
> 

UCX on the VMS machines will solve the problem. This is now part of VMS
or at least sufficient to do what you want is, as from 5.3 i think, hence
no extra cost should be involved. Unfortunately this runs on the VMS
machines but what the ....

> It seems to me that this could be done two ways. One would be for the
> DecStation to appear as multiple nodes (the extra nodes being pseudo
> nodes for the X terminals). The other would be to have the X terminals
> appear as extra displays on the Decstation. Of course, being possible,
> and being implimented are two different things...
> 
>

this should enable your DecStation to act as a server to VMS X clients
and also the same for your X-Terminals. Beware you might need some extra
fonts for the X-Terms or some aliases to get things cooking. 

braham

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