Opinions wanted on best UNIX for networking
Bill Kennedy
bill at wrangler.WLK.COM
Wed May 29 06:50:40 AEST 1991
rbraun at spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) writes:
> (Paul S Secinaro) writes:
>> [ Paul is looking for a network solution ... ]
>
[ Rich is using it with an IBM ... ]
>is an IBM RS/6000; I haven't yet hooked up an AT&T 3B2 or an NCR Tower,
>because the respective vendors have rather uncompetitive TCP/IP offerings.
I have it running with an AT&T 3B2 and an NCR Tower (this machine, wrangler
is the Tower) and I do agree with him about pricing. I bought TCP+ from
Sea Change Corporation in Canada and it was a turnkey hardware/software
solution. It wasn't inexpensive but when you see how much is packed onto
the multibus ethernet card you realize you're buying a lot of computing for
a couple of grand. TCP+ also now ships with bwnfsd the daemon to run with
B&W NFS. I haven't tried B&W but I'm told it works well. I wouldn't
recommend AT&T TCP/IP or NFS for the 3B2 because of the Wollongong stuff
that doesn't coexist well with a Lachman (Interactive) NFS. It's also
frightfully expensive if you're spending your own money.
I ended up with ssbn ('386 ISC 2.2) as the server and it runs both NFS and
RFS, NCR RFS will only cooperate with Towers so I have to use NFS for it,
the other machines all run RFS quite nicely.
[ lots of other useful information, I was just commenting on 3B2 and
Tower stuff ... ]
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