17 Aug
2023
17 Aug
'23
7:36 p.m.
On Aug 17, 2023, at 1:25 PM, Brian Angus
<brian.angus(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm curious if I understand the suggestions correctly? If I was to have connections
from several DECnet capable machines on my home network connecting to a PyDECnet/HECnet
router hosted elsewhere with each one configured to use DDCMP over the slower WAN/VPN
link, then any local machine to machine traffic would end up traversing the WAN link twice
- that is unless the home systems are configured with multiple circuits? While I'm
sure this is quite possible, I suspect it would be a more complex configuration. Having a
PyDECnet router on the home LAN and just using standard ethernet circuits for DECnet would
simplify the configuration for all the local nodes. You could still have the choice of
whether the HECnet destined traffic is routed directly out over the dynamic IP of the home
circuit, or the fixed IP of the business circuit (via the VPN)? Just some thoughts...
:)
If you have several machines at home it certainly is efficient to have a home router,
which in turn connects to elsewhere over whatever connections you like. Connecting
multiple home machines to a remote router is fine if the link is reasonably fast, but as
you say you end up with extra distance and perhaps bottlenecks on slow links.
The nice thing about PyDECnet (or for that matter Rob Jarratt's user mode router) is
that it's just a bit of software that runs on any number of very cheap devices. I
have one instance on a BeagleBone Black, that's a router for less than $100.
paul