4 May
2018
4 May
'18
11:51 p.m.
On 2018-05-04 23:24, Supratim Sanyal wrote:
Hi Johnny,
On 5/2/18 6:15 PM, Supratim Sanyal wrote:
Ok. Good.
On 5/2/18 5:50 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
I have made some progress. IMPVAX is now running on a VPS with a
dedicated static IP address and plenty of bandwidth. It is configured as
an Area router (Level 2) and connected to MIM via MULTINET. It is
communicating successfully with my other nodes at home via a VDE uplink. Sumpratim, an area router is just a more capable
DECnet router. It
has to be either a PDP-11 or a VAX. Alpha's does/did not support area
routing.
Obviously other gear like Ciscos can also act as area routers.
There are various rules on what is connected to what when it comes to
the various routing domains in DECnet.
Once you have an area router then yes, any number (well, up to 63) is
supported. There are no other limitations.
Essentially, area routing isn't anh more complicated that routing
within the area. As an admin, you don't really have to do much of
anything.
But it's good if you have some bandwidth, a fixed address, and are
generally online.
? Johnny
OK, I am willing to give this a shot. Let me think a bit more about
the specifics, I will contact you soon.
Next steps: (1) configure your bridge.c on the VPS and
try to connect to
it from home instead of VDE (2) configure MULTINET server (3) configure
GRE endpoint.
Uh...
1: Why?
2: I thought you said you already had multinet up and running.
3: For what?
All I'm looking for is someone with HECnet connection on the east coast,
willing to have others connect to him using Multinet, and that's it.
Couldn't be simpler.
Johnny
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