DecNet over IP.

[The Brit]

Can DecNet over TCPIP be configured using DecNet Phase IV and TCPIP Services? (I would rather not move to DecNet-OSI unless I absolutely have to.)

Dave

[Kris Clippeleyr]

Dave,

If you want DECnet over IP and you stick to HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS, you have to forget about DECnet Phase IV and switch to DECnet V.
However, I think Multinet can do DECnet IV over TCP/IP (although I'm not sure).

Regards,
Kris (aka Qkcl)

[Walter Miller_1]

Process Systems's TCPWARE will also do DecNet Phase IV over TCPIP.

[Ian Miller.]

It's been 10 or 15 years since DECnet-Plus first appeared. It was bad to start with but its fine now. Perhaps you ought to look at it? :-)

TCPWARE does tunnelling of DECnet over IP - I have used that in the past and it was fine but I'm not stuck on VMS V5.5-2 any more so use DECnet-Plus and HP TCPIP which works fine.

[Hoff]

This is probably the only reason to move to Phase V at this time, if you don't move to the Process IP stack.

Or you tunnel DECnet over IP using external gear, or you bridge the LAN (over IP). More than a few enterprise routers have these capabilities.

[Allan Bowman]

I have used DECnet (Phase IV) over IP in the past using various versions of MultiNet (TGV -> Cisco -> Process Software). It worked well for us and I found it to be rather easy to configure. We used it on a customer WAN where most of their routing equipment did not recognize DECnet protocols.

Allan in Atlanta

[The Brit]

Thanks to you all for your comments. We have decided to take Ian's advice, bite the bullet, and move to DECnet Phase V.

I expect to have additional questions later, but for now, fasten the blindfold and step down the plank.

Dave