[HECnet] Multinet alternatives ...

On Feb 25, 2020, at 9:01 AM, Keith Halewood <Keith.Halewood at pitbulluk.org> wrote: I have pydecnet running on raspberry pi 3b+ under raspbian with the bridge and tap support added. It does the job. Keith > On 25 Feb 2020, at 15:55, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net <mailto:paulkoning at comcast.net>> wrote: > > ? > >>> On Feb 25, 2020, at 10:40 AM, Robert Armstrong <bob at jfcl.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Paul Koning >>> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 6:53 AM >>> To: hecnet at update.uu.se >>> Subject: Re: [HECnet] Multinet alternatives ... >>> >>> >>> >>>> Paul Koning [paulkoning at comcast.net] wrote: >>> >>> There was, but I think Python recently dropped VMS support due to lack of a maintainer. >> >> Dropped VMS or dropped VAX? There was a Python for AXP (although I don't know if it's still supported) but I don't think there was for VAX. >> >> How do people who use your router typically run it? Do they run it on Linux? > > Linux or Mac, including at least one example on Linux on a z/390, and another on Beaglebone Black. But the point of the exercise was to create code that would run, unchanged, on anything that supports Python. For example, while I avoid Windows if at all possible, it certainly should run there without trouble. Or NetBSD, to pick just one other random example. > >>> TOPS-10 is Phase IV, right? Any of the common DECnet implementations should talk to that. >> >> TOPS-10 v7.04 (or maybe 7.05) is Phase IV. That's good news - I've wanted to set up a TOPS-10 simulation, but running a simh780 just to route DECnet for the DMR on TOPS-10 was not attractive. >> >> I'd rather have TOPS-20 but as you say TOPS-20 on simh with networking is not very practical. > > It does work well enough that I was able use it to verify Phase II support. I plan to add intercept support for talking to non-adjacent nodes, but that isn't in yet. A primitive version is easy, a proper version is quite a lot harder. > > paul