[HECnet] Next retro comms project?

[Steve Davidson]

SNA can run on multiple physical transports using the gateways.
Serial, X.25, network adapter (specialized), etc are available.   The
SPD's specify what is supported.   Like Johnny said however, finding
some of this hardware may be a problem.   One of the SPD's mentions an intermediate server that I have never seen/heard of.

Sort of reminds me of the fun and games (not to mention expense) to get
SNA to talk to Netware.

-Steve


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From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE on behalf of Sampsa Laine
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Subject: Re: [HECnet] Next retro comms project?

I thought SNA mostly ran on Token Ring or something?


On 21 Oct 2009, at 14:24, Johnny Billquist wrote:

There was a SNA product for RSX as well. Don't know if it required   
special hardware as well.
But I very much doubt anyone will be able to find that now anyway. :-)

	Johnny

Steve Davidson wrote:
It can via the gateway software.   I see several and it appears that   
many
(if not all) require specialized hardware for the interconnection.   A
search for (vms sna gateway) will point you to the SPD's.
-Steve
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 08:34
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Can VMS talk SNA? If so, I'm in :)
Sampsa
On 21 Oct 2009, at 13:31, Fred wrote:
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Sampsa Laine wrote:

Where should we go from here? Setting up our own virtual X.25   
PSDN   tunnelled over IP maybe? Something crazy with SNA?
SNA! SNA! :)

I could set up Hercules here running MVS 3.8J ... ;)     I'm sure   
the   folks have been able to get SNA to work within the emulator.     
I set   up Hercules and MVS once, but other than a novelty, I   
really didn't   do much with it, because most of my associates   
wouldn't know a   mainframe if it ran them over.   I think it would   
be interesting to   get something quasi-public (on HECmet) going.

Fred

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Lets call it for what it is - "legacy" is a term that people use   
in a
polite but derogatory manner to imply that the future direction they
prefer is not that which they view as the current direction.