<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hello All</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Daniel Watts, Bao Claylinde, Barry Stone and I worked on these DEC network stacks for many years. One other fellow, a friend of Dan's, did the MOP implementation </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The offering supports an API, level 2 (area router), level 1 (router) and end node as well as all utilities like dap copy and cterm sethost - the Lat and mop implementations are complete. I worked with Bruce Mann and John Yosuaks to bring the first LAT console servers when I was working for DEC. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There are interfaces that we worked with Oracle to implement for Sun HP IBM and Sequent ( now owned by IBM I believe)</span></div><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This would-be free offering was a long time commercial package that is bug free having been running on 55 different platforms over a 20 year period.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan and I worked on this code starting in 1985. Bao joined a few years later and wrote the Ethernet driver with IBM engineers for AiX. I believe he also helped HP modify their Ethernet driver as well. These drivers are well implemented everywhere that allow the change of address to the AA-Xx-Xx DECnet address space. Bao also greatly improved the performance of our LAT</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The code compiles on all modern Linux, Windows and UNIX systems as it is a user space implementation. I do need to remove the activation key code so no activation key will be required</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">John Montgomery who is working for Microsoft now wrote the extensive and highly detailed documentation after leaving Digital Review. It is very comprehensive and took a good while to complete with his then fiancé! </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If folks would let me know the versions of Linux and UNIX that they need tested, I will set up a development environment for those servers and confirm that it is operational. I believe we have functionality test suites as well that I will make available.</span></div><div><br></div><div>I look forward to your comments</div><div><br></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">James Corrigan<br>Manage Operations<br><br>ⓂⓄ ⒹⒺⓁⒾⓋⒺⓇⓈ<br><br><a href="mailto:corrigan@ManageOperations.net">corrigan@ManageOperations.net</a><br>C: <a href="tel:+1.919.349.8767" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0/1">+1.919.349.8767</a><br>V: <a href="tel:+1.919.521.8914" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0/2">+1.919.521.8914</a><br><br></span></div></body></html>