Dec related product info needed

[John Breeden]

In article <15380 at uudell.dell.com> mjhammel at Kepler.dell.com (Michael J. Hammel) writes:
>Someone at work asked if I knew anything about the following.  I don't
>but thought I'd check the net for help.  Does anyone know anything about
>these products (vendor, what they are used for, etc)?
>
>        DEC Pathworks for OS/2 v1.1?
>
>        DEC Pathworks for SCO Xenix?
>
>        DEC Pathworks for Altrix? (I think this is supposed to be
>Ultrix, but I'm not sure)
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Michael J. Hammel        | mjhammel@{Kepler|socrates}.dell.com
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>#define CUTESAYING "Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way."

It's all Lan Manager over DECnet. The OS/2 and SCO products support both
Basic and User security (and I assume the Ultrix version does too). The
strangest part is Pathworks for VMS only supports User security (the old
PC Networks security), not User security (Lan Man security).

In a nutshell - Pathworks is jsut good 'ol PCSA by another name - they've
added an NDIS/DLL driver to support other vendors cards and the above servers.

There is a "gotcha" here with the DLL/NDIS driver. The NDIS MAC driver has to
support the SetStationAddress NDIS function. The DEC DLL driver goes out and
changes the card's MAC address.

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