What are the alternatives for bridging DECnet systems across the Internet
that don't require any special hardware and can be self hosted on
OpenVMS/VAX?
I'm aware of Paul's Python router, but I didn't think it ran on a VAX. Am
I wrong about that? Is there a Python for OpenVMS/VAX? I believe there's a
port for AXP but I didn't know about one for VAX.
And I saw Rob mentioned his user mode DECnet router. Same questions -
what environment does that require? And I saw mention it being both
Multinet and simh DDCMp compatible - will it talk to a simh KS10/TOPS10/DMR
?
Bob
Hi all
I've moved my SIMH VAXen to a new host with a new version of SIMH (the
current 3.11 that I found - is there a newer version?)
Main host runs Devuan Linux (yes, I'm a systemd hater). VirtualBox VM
hosts the SIMH instance, also running Devuan Linux.
My area router, FRUGAL, boots fine and gets adjacency with my
Multinet-over-IP connections, that is, LEGATO, MIM, and 31.3:: as well as
other DECNet hosts (MISER, CHEAP)
However, the connection from FRUGAL "flaps" (going up and down) quite a
bit with local DECNet hosts as well as the ip-connection to 31.3::
I've tried eliminating the connection to 31.3:: as the culprit by turning
off the circuit, and the connection between FRUGAL:: and MISER:: (both
local nodes) continues to go up and down every few minutes.
I'd welcome some pointers, things to check, etc. Is there such a thing as
an adjacency timer perhaps I could crank up a bit?
Thanks
Fred
I just updated the current nodenames on a CISCO router after quite a
while using this. Posting this here in case this is useful for others
with CISCOs, possibly saving some awking and sedding.
This includes today's addition of A2RTR.
Best,
Supratim
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Supratim Sanyal, W1XMT
39.19151 N, 77.23432 W
QCOCAL::SANYAL via HECnet
I have switched from using LEGATO as the area 2 router to using Paul's
pyDECnet router instead. I'm very impressed - it doesn't run under VMS, but
other than that pyDECnet does pretty much everything you could want to do
with DECnet or HECnet all in a single package. It only took me a couple of
hours to get it all set up, and it can manage all the Multinet links and the
one "Bilquist Bridge" link that were formerly attached to LEGATO.
The new router for area 2 is (what else?) A2RTR, 2.1023. Johnny, please
add this node name to your database.
LEGATO is still there, but it's been demoted to an L1 router and it
doesn't do anything now except route between HECnet and the real, physical,
machines in my house.
For the people who were/are connected to LEGATO there should be no real
difference except that you'll now see A2RTR on the other end of the link
instead. Everything else should work as before. Let me know if you find
some problem.
And a special thanks to Paul and Supratim for answering my silly questions
and helping me set it up.
Bob
I would not recomend DDCMP over TCP, as you have no idea what the
TCP implementaion does for timers etc and TCP is streams, you need
to identify the packet boundaries.
DDCMP over UDP gives DDCMP full control over retransmit timers etc
for making the connection reliable and what the actual netwrk is doing
is visible to the DDCMP layer.
-P
From: Peter Lothberg <roll at Stupi.SE>
>May I suggest sometng ugly, but not violating any layers,
>DDCMP over UDP.
For what it's worth, Ersatz-11 (my PDP-11 emulator) also supports DDCMP
over UDP, and I don't consider it ugly at all -- it's a very neat fit.
(E11 can also use TCP, or actual real async DDCMP over serial lines, and
there are the beginnings of support for DDCMP on sync lines too but
usable hardware for that is rare.)
John Wilson
D Bit
I am happily running an instance of pydecnet (1.0-486) to connect my
simh VAX cluster and various other stuff to HECnet (ONAPI4 29.206)
For management purposes, I'd like to periodically zero the
line/circuit/node counters on ONAPI4, but the node does not respond to
the "NCP tell ONAPI4 zero <xxx> counters" commands.
Looking at the python code, I saw some hints bit I can't get my head
around how to do this, either using the pydecnet api or remote NCP
Any help here?
*Wilm*
I just wanted to alert people that I rewrote parts of the bridge code
recently.
The code was very old, and it started to have problems on some platforms
because of the very ancient way it made use of the pcap library. So I
finally bit the bullet and rewrote it to make use of the pcap library it
is supposed to be used these days. This not only removed some
bugs/issues, but it also allowed me to remove some conditional code for
different OSes.
In addition I also introduced some other changes that others have
contributed, making it hopefully a little nicer to use.
The bridge tarball can be found on:
http://mim.update.uu.se/hecnet
or
http://psilo.update.uu.se/~bqt/hecnet
Johnny
--
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
Hi all,
Does anyone happen to have a digitized copy of "Jnet NJE Manager's
Guide" from Wingra Technologies? This applies to Wingra's JNET for VMS
product, version 3.6 (or 3.5 or 3.7) which connects VAX/VMS systems to
IBM Mainframe networks using NJE over DECnet or TCPIP.
Thanks,
Supratim
--
Supratim Sanyal, W1XMT
39.19151 N, 77.23432 W
QCOCAL::SANYAL via HECnet
