27 Aug
2015
27 Aug
'15
2:45 p.m.
Or you could connect to SG1::. Your choices are johnny's bridge or Multinet. I can
handle either with dynamic addressing. Contact me offline after tomorrow.
-Steve
Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 27, 2015, at 08:10, Jarratt RMA
<robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com> wrote:
On 27/08/2015, Mark Benson <md.benson at
gmail.com> wrote:
Well, after a long absence due to life being what life is sometimes, I'm
now in my own apartment with my own Broadband line. Alas I'm still on a
dynamic IP. I wondered if anyone had made any progress with allowing us
wandering souls to connect to HECnet.
I aim to renew my VMS Hobbyist licenses (hopefully that still works? Did
it move to VMSsoftware or is HP still doing it?) and get my VAXstation
up and running as well as a couple of RPi's running an older VAX sim
with VMS and PDP-11 sim RSX-11M Plus. I may also dabble in using Tru64
on my Alpha, if I can dig out some bigger disks for it.
Hoping I can get back into DEC as it's about the only esoteric hardware
I have left these days!
Thanks,
--
Mark @ DECtec.info
twitter.com/DECtecInfo
Welcome back Mark.
Regarding the dynamic IP, one of the main features of the user mode
router I wrote was support for dynamic IP. However, it needs your peer
to use the router really, or implement the same code. I did suggest to
Johnny that he take my DNS code for that purpose, I am not sure if he
did so. However, depending on your ISP, your IP address may not
actually change all that often, mine rarely changes so it is rarely a
problem and I only have to ask Johnny to restart the bridge at his end
in order to be back on HECnet.
If you want to try peering with my router I would be happy to
accommodate, I am in area 5 and could allocate you a segment of node
numbers. Performance won't be great because your traffic would be
coming in and out of my house which is domestic broadband with limited
upload bandwidth, and I do occasionally restart it.
Regards
Rob