Running Sun Net Manager on a non-Sun.
Mullet Kevin Wright
Are there any brave souls out there who are running Sun Net Manager
on a non-Sun workstation? Is there a reason why this shouldn't be done?
Any and all experiences and opinions welcome.
Please mail to me. I'll summarize and repost to the net.
-Kevin Mullet
University of North Texas Computing Center
Pete Delany
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>Are there any brave souls out there who are running Sun Net Manager
>on a non-Sun workstation? Is there a reason why this shouldn't be done?
>Any and all experiences and opinions welcome.
I ported Sun's OSI stack to the Siemens/Nixdorf Targon-35 (a.k.a. Pyramid)
about two years ago, including what existed of the Network Manager at that time.
The only major problem with portability was in the IEEE 802.3 code and the
Pyramid C compiler padding the ethernet header structures to short boundries.
I thought the NNTP code was much better than the code we contracted the
Frahnhoffer Institute to do; though I'm sure others would differ. At that
the time of the Enterprise Event only the server code was complete, so I
focused more on the X25 and FTAM stuff. Though I was able to get the server up,
the differences between the european flavor and that of the states precluded
by testing it locally; and political problems prevented me from testing it
with the members outside the CNMA project.
I thought Mick Cox et. al. did a really nice job and highly recomend it.
I also would be interested in hearing about the experiences of others.
I also did a NeWS 1.0 nntp windows front end that displayed tcp/ip, NFS,
and nntp network statistics in subwindows that the user could select from
a list what were presented for the various protocols. It was only about
80k of postscript that I hacked from a Stock Market Demo called 'Tycoon'.
It was a smash at the Hanover Fair, however the nntp part left a lot to
be desired. If anyone is interested in it I can probably e-mail it or
if substantial interest exist I could post a copy to the comp.windows.news
news group; but I seriously doubt it.
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