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The Question is: We are a company that has 10 or more VAX systems and a few Alpha VMS systems. We have one Sun Unix box that we are trying to talk with that has the Sunlink utility installed that allows it to talk Decnet. We have roughly 50 VT220 terminals going through DEC Terminal servers running LAT. Is there a way a to connect the VT220 terminals via the DEC Terminal servers to the Unix box such that all the user has to do at the LOCAL prompt is to say local> connect <unix box>. We are aware of only two solutions that don't look good to us: 1)change all 20 terminal servers to ones that do both LAT and TCPIP/TELNET. 2) Have the users login into a VMS account then do TELNET to the box. Are there any software solutions that allow a direct connect? Through our searc hing of the internet we ran accross a concept of a Router by Cisco Systems. Is this solution any different than changing all the DEC terminal servers? The Answer is : This is not particularly an OpenVMS question, this is a DECserver question. If the particular DECserver devices are sufficiently old, they will be capable of LAT. More recent DECserver devices can use -- or can potentially load new firmware which can use -- telnet to communicate with the host. (You do not indicate which specific DECserver devices are in use here, nor which version of firmware -- if applicable -- is in use.) If you are using LAT, you will need to pass through a box that can communicate with both LAT and DECnet or IP -- the OpenVMS Wizard has seen dedicated (captive) logins on OpenVMS systems for this purpose -- or you will need to find a LAT client for the target host. If you are using a DECserver that can use or can be reloaded to use telnet, your problem is obviously solved. Beyond using an intervening OpenVMS or other host system (one that supports LAT and the target protocol), the OpenVMS Wizard is not aware of a protocol translator box, and would not tend to expect to find such a box available.
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