Date   : Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:36:44 GMT
From   : chris@... (Chris Johns)
Subject: Back from Byte-Back!

> > Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0903101603360.20692@...>
>  
> Chris Johns wrote:
> > Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:
> > > Yes, Acorn, it's called !Gateway, and it comes on the AUN disks.
> > That only allows AUN-compatible clients on the Econet side to talk to the
> > ethernet side, so you can't get a beeb to logon to a Level 4 fileserver
> > that's across the gateway. (but you can logon to a file server that is the
>  
> Yes, you can, that's what I used to do every day back at AFE.
>  
> Refering to <http://mdfs.net/User/JGH/Docs/AFE/Network> I usually
> used stations 3.107 and 3.108. Station 2.236/3.236 ran !Gateway,
> and telnet and NFS servers.

How did you manage to get network 2 (assuming that's network 2 in the
NetFS/AUN sense) to be on the ethernet? Networks 1-127 were used for
Econet, 128up for ethernet.

Given 2.236 was a Unix server, I would be suprised if it ran the !Gateway
that came with the AUN package.
 
> To remotely administer the printer servers on stations 2.125 and
> 2.126 I ran L4FS fileserver on them as well, with the whole disk
> exported.

I would be very suprised if you could *I AM to either of them from the
beeb. From the arc, yes; however it's possible there was a unix version
of gateway that actually worked as a bridge.

> We definitely had a system that routed NetFS-over-Econet to and
> from NetFS-over-Ethernet.

For 8 bit machines? To route from NetFS-over-Econet to
NetFS-over-Ethernet (IP), the Econet only machine uses EconetA, and does
NetFS-over-IP-over-Econet.

The 8bit NFS can't do this, so are limited to talking to what they can
see via the econet(s).

> All 8-bit and 32-bit Acorn systems could *I AM to servers on 4.10,
> 4.12, 4.15, 4.19, 4.254 and my test server on 3.106.

Where are all accessible via the Econet (either by being on net 4, or
via the econet bridge).

> All 8-bit and 32-bit Acorn systems and all the PCs could telnet
> into the UNIX system on 2.236/3.236.

Which is directly accessible via the Econet (either by being on net 3 or
via the bridge), and the 8bit telnet client would have to talk some form
of IP-over-Econet, so would be gateway-able.

I'm still sure you can't (at least not using what came as part of the
AUN package) talk econet protocols between an 8-bit machine on an econet
network and a 32-bit machine that's the far side of a gateway.
-- 
Chris Johns <chris@...             >