[HECnet] Re: DECnet+ Connection

Hi Michael, It’s Wiz here. Tony got my address flipped around. I’m djm(a)wiz.net.au. I run area 35 from Melbourne and Tony’s machines are part of that. Tim is also in Australia. He’s located in Perth. I run Paul’s PyDECnet (as many of us do) and everything I have is Phase IV. This is what I recommend to everyone who wants to connect into HECnet. I’ve only started playing with VMS/x86 so I don’t know exactly how this plays, but others on the list have said that it managed to play ok. As most of us would have Phase IV machines on our same networks I don’t know if that plays a part. In any event if you are located on the East coast of Australia and you want to get connected into the network please hit me up. Cheers, Wiz!! Sent from my iPhone On 17 Jul 2025, at 5:53 pm, Michael Brown <mbrown(a)b5.net> wrote:  On 17/7/25 16:04, Tony Nicholson wrote: Michael, I “upgraded” to phase IV DECnet on all my HECnet machines - to be consistent across each of the VAX/Alpha/x86 OpenVMS and PDP-11 operating systems (and I can use my 40-plus years of burnt-in NCP command memory to manipulate the configurations). I see, so no DECnet+ peering. Maybe I'll have to explore other options, I'll look into pydecnet. Wiz (aka David Moylan) wiz(a)djm.net.au is the person you should contact regarding joining HECnet area 35 in Australia. He can allocate node numbers and Johnny Billquist co-ordinates the node name registrations. I'll contact him and go from there. I suggest you use pydecnet as your DECnet protocol router as it can manage the IP tunnels into HECnet. I run it and a few SIMH instances on a Raspberry Pi 3B, whilst my x86_64 OpenVMS runs under virtualbox on my Mac mini. Does pydecnet work with Phase V I suppose I should ask. _______________________________________________ HECnet mailing list -- hecnet(a)lists.dfupdate.se To unsubscribe send an email to hecnet-leave(a)lists.dfupdate.se