[HECnet] Adding my node

Johnny Billquist wrote: Obviously I can, but there might be people a bit closer than Uppsala, Sweden. :-) John Floren skrev: Hi everyone I'm located in the San Francisco, CA area and would like to add my VMS node to HECnet. I'm looking for someone relatively close that would be willing to bridge DECnet to me and help walk me through setting up the configuration on my end. Thanks I don't think it matters so much where anybody lives, unless you need some "hands on" help of some kind. Your first step is to decide whether you want to connect to HECnet using Johnny's bridge program, which requires that you have a Un*x box to serve as the bridge host, or a Multinet style tunnel, which requires a VMS host to serve as the bridge. Either form of connection can serve as a router for other DECnet nodes on your local network. I think the current Linux/DECnet implementation can also do Multinet compatible tunnels, but I can't promise it. Christine would know the answer to that... The next question is how many nodes do you have and what are their names - the node addresses have to be assigned in keeping with the existing allocations, and the node names have to be unique. There's a slightly out of date listing here - http://www.sparetimegizmos.com/Downloads/DCN%20Node%20List.pdf FWIW, I live in Milpitas. Bob