Connectivity problems With IBM

[Peter Jeffe 512.823.4091]

In article <6101 at hub.ucsb.edu> erickson at pollux.ncgia.ucsb.edu (Scott Erickson) writes:
>I find that (on IBM RT's, PS/2's, and RS6000's) IBM tends to make
>their software so that it's easy to connect with other IBM machines,
>but it's extremely painful to connect to anything else!
>
>YP (NIS), sendmail, NFS, etc. seem to work ok between our two RT's,
>but it took a major struggle and lots of options to get this stuff to
>work between the RT's and Suns.

Hmmmm.  I can't speak for YP/NFS, but in the tcp/ip group we've had few
problems with interconnection.  Judging from the sorts of problems reported
in the tcp/ip and sendmail newsgroups, AIX seems to have less than its
share of inter-vendor connectivity problems in these areas.

Since the majority of our tcp/ip and mail code is straight BSD tahoe ports,
I don't find this too surprising.

I would, however, be interested to hear precisely what sorts of problems
you've had.  Please respond by email unless you consider them of global
interest.

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