RE: Does Hercules support SNA?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Sent: 14 September 2019 16:08
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [hercules-390] Does Hercules support SNA?
> 
> 
> Le 9/14/2019 à 4:19 PM, ''Fish' (David B. Trout)'
> [email protected] [hercules-390] a écrit :
> >> Does Hercules support SNA?
> > I don't know.  I'm personally unfamiliar with SNA.  Have you TRIED it?
> 
> There is an experimental SNA 3705 LU Type 4 Controler/NCP emulator (with a
> fixed configuration).
> 
> Also CTCE supports may allow LU TYPE 5 between VTAM instances (but it
> requires a VTAM with cross SSCP support).
> 
> There is however no known support/controler emulator for 3x74 configuration
> type C (SNA) controlers.
> 
> --Ivan
> 

I know one of the UK DEC Legacy guys has written some code to support Type "C" SNA controllers. From

https://groups.io/g/declegacy/message/178

" To avoid requiring special hardware on the PC I opted to use a Cisco
router with a WAN interface card (WIC-2T in this case) for the SDLC side
and DLSw protocol for communicating with the PC. This protocol would
normally used between two routers to carry SNA traffic over a WAN. By
following RFC 1795 I was able to implement my own DLSw peer in
comm3705.c. This allows me to transmit SNA packets from VTAM to the 3174
and back again."

Dave