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Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

Title:	DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90
Notice:	See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit
Moderator:	STAR::VATNE

Created:	Mon Oct 30 1989
Last Modified:	Mon Dec 31 1990
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	3726
Total number of notes:	19516

901.0. "Is VMS DW really X11 compliant?" by UTOPIE::ASCHAUER (Mei Muadal woa a Weanarin) Thu Jun 08 1989 11:43

	I've got a problem at a customer's site regarding the connectivity
	of a non-DEcwindows machine and a VMS machine. Consider the following
	scenario:

	-------------- TCP/IP ------------------ DECnet ------------------
	| HP (X11R3) |--------| VS2000 UWS 2.0 |--------| VS2000 VMS 5.1 |
	--------------        ------------------        ------------------

	When a HP client (e.g. xclock) issues a connect request to the
	VMS machine using the Ultrix machine as a DECnet/Internet gateway
	all DECwindows related processes on the VMS side will crash.
	But if the request comes from the VMS machine everything works 
	perfectly fine. Also, there's no problem between the Ultrix and
	HP machine in any directions.

	Obviously, there's a process running on the gateway which "maps"
	TCP/IP to DECnet and vice versa.

	Any ideas somebody?
	/ga

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
901.1	Compliant, just doesn't listen well	STAR::BRANDENBERG	Si vis pacem para bellum	`Thu Jun 08 1989 12:20`	4
	Any chance that that HP machine is big-endian? If so, you can forget about using the V1.0 VMS Server.
901.2		ULTRA::WRAY	John Wray, Secure Systems Development	`Thu Jun 08 1989 12:45`	5
	The dying DECwindows processes ought to be QARed, whether or not the problem is due to a big-endian/little-endian problem. DECwindows ought to be robust enough to cope with (what it perceives as) garbage coming in from the net.
901.3		DECWIN::FISHER	Burns Fisher 381-1466, ZKO3-4/W23	`Thu Jun 08 1989 15:50`	5
	If the problem is big-endian, fixed in a future release. If not, I agree with .-1. Burns
901.4		STAR::BRANDENBERG	Si vis pacem para bellum	`Thu Jun 08 1989 16:10`	6
	Like burns said... We already have a QAR (and I believe a fix) for withstanding babbling clients. Big-endian is believed to be fixed in a future release but is desperately in need of testing by those who can do it.