| Title: | FDDI - The Next Generation | 
| Moderator: | NETCAD::STEFANI | 
| Created: | Thu Apr 27 1989 | 
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 | 
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 | 
| Number of topics: | 2259 | 
| Total number of notes: | 8590 | 
7	Hello,
	Does someone can confirm me that LAST protocol is not supported on 
	DEMFA (XMI controller).
	For what I know only DECnet, IP and LAT are supported in the current
	release.
	One of my customer will connect in a very short term his systems 
	(9000 and 6000) on a DECconcentrator.
	Those systems are running PATHWORK (File and Disk services for PC's)
	and of course it will really be a big problem if LAST is not supported.
	Is there a technical reason why it is not possible?
	If not, when is LAST support forcasted?
	Thanks in advance,
	Robert 
    
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines | 
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| 707.1 | supported | DECEAT::KALKUNTE | Ramsesh Kalkunte 293-5139 | Wed Sep 16 1992 10:28 | 8 | 
|     Can you please tell us where you heard of such a thing. Absolute
    nonsense; DEMFA supports any datalink protocol. You have to enable the
    reception of these packets using the device driver. I have personally
    seen LAST packets using the DEMFA, so that should tell you. If your
    version of FXDRIVER has a problem doing this, it's a bug. Please log a
    QAR ASAP.
    
    Ram
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| 707.2 | LAST no problem LAT? | FILTON::MCCAUGHAN_S | Thu Sep 17 1992 07:02 | 6 | |
|     Yes I have configured PATHWORKS to run successfully on FDDI in a
    VAXcluster MDF environment, there are issues around LAT which may
    effect your customer, please see the note I have posted in the
    ISEQ::MDF notes conference.
    
                                Shaun
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