On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 08/30/2012 12:10 AM, Gregg Levine wrote:
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 08/16/2012 10:18 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:
So where are we with this package? I thought I'd write now and ask
rather then wait longer... Incidentally I've stuck a spare laptop in
place of the Compaq portable that was posing as the console for the
Sparc system. It's strange, I also attached the monitor that will be
connected to the Sparc to the laptop's monitor/projector port, and it
came up on the monitor instead of on the laptop screen first.
And the keyboard to the port for the keyboard and mouse on the laptop.
I've been in crunch mode, just getting caught up on a bunch of
long-neglected stuff around here. I'll get to it soon but not for a few
more days at least.
Hello!
Dave what news on your packing up a "care package" for my honorable self?
I thought I'd write since it has been a considerable while.
Not yet, sorry man. Another crunch time snuck up on me at work, and
I'm leaving (finally) for my very last Florida truck trip next week. It
will have to be after my return. I'm sorry for taking so long.
Incidentally the cybermen arranged around your establishment all say hello.
FEAR!
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Hello!
Oh okay. Take your time, and be careful down there.
Why should you fear them? They were requested by your PDP-11 system to
protect it.
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On 08/30/2012 12:10 AM, Gregg Levine wrote:
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 08/16/2012 10:18 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:
So where are we with this package? I thought I'd write now and ask
rather then wait longer... Incidentally I've stuck a spare laptop in
place of the Compaq portable that was posing as the console for the
Sparc system. It's strange, I also attached the monitor that will be
connected to the Sparc to the laptop's monitor/projector port, and it
came up on the monitor instead of on the laptop screen first.
And the keyboard to the port for the keyboard and mouse on the laptop.
I've been in crunch mode, just getting caught up on a bunch of
long-neglected stuff around here. I'll get to it soon but not for a few
more days at least.
Hello!
Dave what news on your packing up a "care package" for my honorable self?
I thought I'd write since it has been a considerable while.
Not yet, sorry man. Another crunch time snuck up on me at work, and
I'm leaving (finally) for my very last Florida truck trip next week. It
will have to be after my return. I'm sorry for taking so long.
Incidentally the cybermen arranged around your establishment all say hello.
FEAR!
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 08/16/2012 10:18 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:
So where are we with this package? I thought I'd write now and ask
rather then wait longer... Incidentally I've stuck a spare laptop in
place of the Compaq portable that was posing as the console for the
Sparc system. It's strange, I also attached the monitor that will be
connected to the Sparc to the laptop's monitor/projector port, and it
came up on the monitor instead of on the laptop screen first.
And the keyboard to the port for the keyboard and mouse on the laptop.
I've been in crunch mode, just getting caught up on a bunch of
long-neglected stuff around here. I'll get to it soon but not for a few
more days at least.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Hello!
Dave what news on your packing up a "care package" for my honorable self?
I thought I'd write since it has been a considerable while.
Incidentally the cybermen arranged around your establishment all say hello.
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
Moro,
kuulemma sun pit k yd ruksittamassa oma.saunalahti -portaalista ensin tuo APN k ytt n.
---Saku
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
Won't connect with that APN, unfortunately..
Sampsa
On 29 Aug 2012, at 14:09, Saku Set l wrote:
Sampsa,
you can try to change your APN from "internet.saunalahti" to "internet4"
--Saku
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
Mobile operator called Saunalahti, they're a virtual operator on top of one of the two major Finnish operators, Elisa.
Speeds are amazing, middle of the woods, I get 6/3 Mbps up down on a 3G dongle hooked to my Draytek router, and like 12/5 on my iPad.
13 euros a month, unlimited bandwidth and as much speed as your device can drive.
Oh and they've got a 4G base station in town, like 7 km away, should get like 40+ Mbps there.
Then again, Helsinki cable operators are now offering 300/20 Mbps as their to product :)
Sampsa
On 6 Aug 2012, at 23:15, Gregg Levine wrote:
Hello!
Sampsa all kidding aside who did you pick? I can think of several of
the names but probably not available where you are.
Oh and the gang left Thursday last. They are around Dave's place.
Won't connect with that APN, unfortunately..
Sampsa
On 29 Aug 2012, at 14:09, Saku Set l wrote:
Sampsa,
you can try to change your APN from "internet.saunalahti" to "internet4"
--Saku
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
Mobile operator called Saunalahti, they're a virtual operator on top of one of the two major Finnish operators, Elisa.
Speeds are amazing, middle of the woods, I get 6/3 Mbps up down on a 3G dongle hooked to my Draytek router, and like 12/5 on my iPad.
13 euros a month, unlimited bandwidth and as much speed as your device can drive.
Oh and they've got a 4G base station in town, like 7 km away, should get like 40+ Mbps there.
Then again, Helsinki cable operators are now offering 300/20 Mbps as their to product :)
Sampsa
On 6 Aug 2012, at 23:15, Gregg Levine wrote:
Hello!
Sampsa all kidding aside who did you pick? I can think of several of
the names but probably not available where you are.
Oh and the gang left Thursday last. They are around Dave's place.
Sampsa,
you can try to change your APN from "internet.saunalahti" to "internet4"
--Saku
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
Mobile operator called Saunalahti, they're a virtual operator on top of one of the two major Finnish operators, Elisa.
Speeds are amazing, middle of the woods, I get 6/3 Mbps up down on a 3G dongle hooked to my Draytek router, and like 12/5 on my iPad.
13 euros a month, unlimited bandwidth and as much speed as your device can drive.
Oh and they've got a 4G base station in town, like 7 km away, should get like 40+ Mbps there.
Then again, Helsinki cable operators are now offering 300/20 Mbps as their to product :)
Sampsa
On 6 Aug 2012, at 23:15, Gregg Levine wrote:
Hello!
Sampsa all kidding aside who did you pick? I can think of several of
the names but probably not available where you are.
Oh and the gang left Thursday last. They are around Dave's place.
Not quite. The assumptions are that it's a datagram service with a fairly =
low loss rate. It assumes order, and at-most-once delivery, though if that=
Packets out of order makes it reset the adjacency, lost packets will
be retransmitted by the session layer....
-P
OOPS.
You're right of course. I was thinking about multiple Ethernet interfaces on DIFFERENT LANs. (Not different segments bridged, but not connected at L2, only at L3.)
paul
On Aug 28, 2012, at 7:44 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2012-08-28 17:58, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:
Maybe the thing to do is to turn on both interfaces -- that will give you a dual-link end node, which is something DECnet handles just fine. In fact, I've always argued that DECnet handles multiple connections to the same LAN much better than IP ever did, mostly because it addresses nodes rather than networks or interfaces.
Uh... I would argue that that would be a very bad thing, as it means you'll have two interfaces with the same mac address... Sitting on the same network. I'm pretty sure I even have seen some DECnet documentation that just says "not supported", or even stronger words...
Johnny
paul
On Aug 28, 2012, at 11:54 AM, Mark Benson wrote:
I tried to run a similar setup and found that Debian/Ubuntu's
'network-manager' process makes a really horrific mess of managing 2
interfaces.
I ripped it out of Debian and used file entries in
/etc/network/interfaces and /etc/resolv.conf
I have no idea if Ubuntu will spit it's brain out if you try that on
12.04 as it's ver dependent on it in the GUI.
--
Mark Benson
http://markbenson.org/bloghttp://twitter.com/MDBenson
On 28 Aug 2012, at 13:37, Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk> wrote:
I think I've found it.
My HP Microserver running Ubuntu 12.04 has two network cards in: eth0 and eth2.
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
On Aug 29, 2012, at 5:24 AM, Peter Lothberg wrote:
...
DECnet over Ethernet, makes the assumption that unless there is a collition, the packet makes it to the
receiver.
Not quite. The assumptions are that it's a datagram service with a fairly low loss rate. It assumes order, and at-most-once delivery, though if that's violated I don't think things are likely to fail badly. It is actually tolerant of some pretty weird errors, for example a non-transitive network (A can see B and B can see C but A can't see C). That's rare in Ethernet bus networks and even less likely in modern switched networks, unless you misconfigure a firewall. And many other network architectures get seriously confused if this happens, but DECnet explicitly covers this case.
DECnet over P-T-P links assumes there is underlaying reliable transport, eg, DDCMP.
Running a ether bridge serving multiple nodes over TCP will cause problems like what Jonny outlines, basically
it'sa head-of-line problem.
Are you talking about congestion or head of line blocking? I'm not sure how you get from there to the problem that was seen. Multiple correlated packet losses? That might do it.
But if the Bridge makes a mesh of TCP connections (one per destination) it will work....
-P
paul
On 2012-08-06 18:18, Jarratt RMA wrote:
Not sure I recall this particular conversation, but I am making (slow)
progress on a user mode DECnet router that runs on Windows and Linux and
which I intend to make friendly to those who do not have a fixed IP
address (like me). Not sure if that is what you were referring to.
I think there have been other discussions about tcp as a transport for
traffic. I've personally not been very interested in this, since there
are potential problems and issues with this. But it would in principle
not be hard to convert the existing bridge program to use tcp instead if
someone wanted to, but I won't be running that at my end...
Right now I have the Ethernet Initialization sublayer about done for
actual Ethernet connections. I still need to do an interface that will
interop with Johnny's bridge program, this should be easy when I get to
it,
Stupidly simple, in fact. You'll get full ethernet frames in UDP
packets. Pass them in and parse them, just like any other ethernet
packet. As for sending them out, once you have the full ethernet packet,
send it over UDP instead of out on the ethernet interface.
when I do it I will add a periodic check that the IP address is
still valid by checking against DNS (you would need to be registered on
a dynamic DNS service like DynDNS). I believe Johnny does not do this in
the bridge because of the temporary halt in packet processing this
entails. Personally, this is a price I am willing to pay. I could make
it asynch I suppose, but it is harder to do this in a portable manner.
Correct. DNS resolution can take ages, especially when things gets
wrong. Timeout are into minutes sometimes.
You really do not want to block operation on that.
Potential other problems if you go with tcp - a changed address means
tearing down and reestablishing connections. You will have to make sure
that the received can receive and process packets faster than a producer
is sending them, or else you need to implement packet discarding, or
else you'll get really weird problems because packets will appear, but
way after they are considered dead by the sender. A typical example is
if the sender is sitting on a gigabit ethernet, but the receiver is a
lowly PDP-11 on a 10 Mbit ethernet segment. TCP never drops the packets.
Instead you'll get into TCP flow control, which will block your writes
or return with partial success. Another thing is that TCP is just a byte
stream, so you need to somehow block/deblock your transmissions so that
you deal with full packets at the receiving side. And if you implement
packet drop, you might need to be able to resynch or drop data in ways
that don't get only partial packets across.
One problem here is that by the time the sender becomes aware of a
problem, you are already very deep into the problem. In order to make it
work smoothly, you need to detect and drop packets on the receiving
side. But that's also tricky, since how do you know on the receiving
side that there is more data coming before you have received it...
Else you try to implement some signalling protocol outside of the data
stream to tell this kind of information.
Ah well, I could go on... Suffice to say that it's not because I'm
opposed to the features that a TCP connection, or DNS resolution would
give, but I prioritize something that I feel confident is working to
features. And doing a proper solution with all these aspects is more
work than I have cared to put into it. The bridge program is a hack.
As Paul mention, pthreads would probably be a good start if you want to
do something more intelligent. You need to start thinking asynchronously.
Johnny
Regards
Rob
On 6 August 2012 16:35, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com
<mailto:sampsa at mac.com>> wrote:
I remember there being some discussion about a bridge that would
work over TCP (only requiring the server to have a port forward /
static IP)..
What's the status on this? My ISP (a 3G network that's blazing fast
but short on IPs, which means I'm NAT'd on the outside of my
network, thus not portwards are possible).
Ideally I would like to just point at the server without them
knowing anything about my originating IP, perhaps with some form of
authentication.
Sampsa
DECnet over Ethernet, makes the assumption that unless there is a collition, the packet makes it to the
receiver.
DECnet over P-T-P links assumes there is underlaying reliable transport, eg, DDCMP.
Running a ether bridge serving multiple nodes over TCP will cause problems like what Jonny outlines, basically
it'sa head-of-line problem.
But if the Bridge makes a mesh of TCP connections (one per destination) it will work....
-P
