[HECnet] DECnet Phase IV through Linux GRE Tunnel?

Hi Mark, is to set up a VAX/OpenVMS simulation under SIMH to act as a DECnet area router (and provide other services to my real VAXen, too). My approach was to compile SIMH with VDE support, and then use VDE as the primary DECnet-only switch connecting nine DECnet nodes in my basement in Washington, DC to a 10th node (CLOUDY) on a VPS in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. It works great, VDE basically provides ethernet ports on the same switch no matter where the ports geographically are; the virtual ethernet switch extends over SSL, hence it is pretty secure too. If the host machine of MIM had VDE installed and shared the public key with us, we could, in theory, connect all our simulated DECnet nodes to MIM:: without using Multinet or Johnny's bridge etc.