I joined this list a few months ago, maybe the discussion took
place before my joining.

I used to setup a remote site two years ago with other
colleagues. As I was quite a new HP3ker at that time, I'm not
sure whether my experiences can help.

1) We rented a dedicated line from local phone company. Set up
routers on both remote and local site. Link the two router
through Modem. The data transmission is configured using TCP/IP.
Sorry for not able to provide more details on Router's
configuration because it will vary from brand to brand.

2) DTC can surely run remotely. If you are using
Openview:DTCmanager, just configure the remote DTC with it's IP
address and MacAddress like any other local DTCs. If you don't
use DTCmanager, then config it in NMMGR.  IMHO, all DTCs are the
same , there should be no special considerations to use it as a
remote one.

3) It made no difference whether a DTC is a remote one or a local
one by using TCP/IP. What's more,MPE version is not a problem. We
were on MPE/ix 4.x when we set up the remote site.

Regards,

Haijing Chen.

ps.I believe compare to most of the gentle lists, I'm still very..very new on
this field. If what I've said is not the case, please just correct me. Thanks.



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Subject: Remote DTCs
Author:  john at [log in to unmask]
Date:    9/25/97 3:44


In the past months there has been some discussion on this list about using
DTCs remotely.  I didn't follow it too closely, because I never though I
was going have to do anything like that!  Now I find myself involved with
an installation that is going to have a DTC at a remote site connected with
frame relay, and I have several questions that I hope someone can answer.
Just to complicate matters, this installation is in South America.

1) The phone company is saying that we can run TCP/IP over frame relay.
From what I know this sounds reasonable, but has anyone on the list any
experience of it?

2) Can any DTC be run remotely, or do we need one of the more recent (and
considerably more expensive) DTCs?  Is there anything special about the
routers needed or their configuration?

3) Can the remote DTC be configured using NMMGR?  Do we need 5.5 to do
this?  If we need Openview, does it have to be on the same segment as the
remote DTC or can it be anywhere on the network (it seems to me, that if
the DTC can download through the routers from Openview, it should be able
to do the same thing from the HP3000)?



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