22 Aug
2020
22 Aug
'20
1:38 p.m.
PyDECnet certainly does GRE. That's why we all love Paul's work so much. It
contains support for GRE, Multinet and your bridge code all in the one product.
I was able to move from my old Cisco router across to PyDECnet and maintain all of my
existing GRE tunnels with no reconfiguration.
From what I interpret, Thord is running an emulated
RSTS/E system on simh and wants to run PyDECnet on the same host to establish a connection
upstream.
Thord - I have a similar setup, but I'm running VMS. Here's how I have it setup:
- my host running is Ubuntu 18.04.2
- physical Ethernet (it's called "ens160" because I run VMware)
- tap interfaces for each of my VMS simh machines
- a tap interface for PyDECnet
- I bring all of my tap interfaces and my physical ethernet together into a bridge
interface
- the bridge interface has my IP address bound to it.
PyDECnet is setup with the first circuit connected to the tap adapter I reserved for
PyDECnet above.
I then have circuit entries for each of the connections to the other area routers and end
nodes I am connected to on HECnet.
I assume that you should be able to achieve the same with RSTS/E on simh.
Let me know if you want more specific details (and let me know what your OS version etc
is). I can provide more granular configuration information on my setup which you should be
able to use as a template for your own setup.
Cheers, Wiz!!
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-
hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Johnny Billquist
Sent: Saturday, 22 August 2020 9:27 PM
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] Configuring py-decnet.
Indeed I did. I must admit that the picture is unclear. If we're talking
GRE using pydecnet (does it do GRE?), then why the ethernet jump between
pydecnet and GRE? There do need to some something between the
ethernet
and GRE tunnel. My assumption was probably premature.
Johnny
On 2020-08-22 13:23, David Moylan wrote:
I think you assumed he has a Cisco router :-)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-
> hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Johnny Billquist
> Sent: Saturday, 22 August 2020 9:22 PM
> To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
> Subject: Re: [HECnet] Configuring py-decnet.
>
> Hi, Thord.
>
> The RSX manuals are probably partially usable, but there are certainly
> some significant differences in how this works in RSX and RSTS/E as well.
> I noticed that you have phase III manuals for RSTS/E V7 on bitsavers.
> They might be partially helpful as well? (I suspect you already know
these.)
>
> About your setup. Not sure why you have pydecnet there between the
> virtual tap ethernet and real ethernet. Is it implicit that you have two
> pydecnet instances in there, with some distance between them? Because
> from the delqa you can get to the physical ethernet, and if your Cisco
> is on that same ethernet, then I'd say pydecnet is not needed.
>
> Johnny
>
>
>
>
> On 2020-08-22 12:29, Thord Nilson wrote:
>> Hello all!
>> I am trying to test up decnet iv on a rsts/e 10.1 system on simh and
>> hopefully connect to hecnet. Currently borrowing a node name/number
> from
>> Peter L.
>>
>> Is the following setup workable/suitable?
>>
>> rsts/e --> delqua --> virtual tap ethernet --> pydecnet -->
>> real-ethernet --> GRE tunnel.
>>
>> Anyone who has done this and willing to share the setup used?
>> Or any good links?
>>
>> I have not found a decnet-iv manual for rsts/e online, but maybe the rsx
>> manuals are usable. Anyone know?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Thord.
>>
>>
>>
>
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