9 Mar
2020
9 Mar
'20
8:33 p.m.
On 3/9/2020 11:47 AM, Mark J. Blair wrote:
I made good progress yesterday on updating my home
network setup. I changed my home router/NAT/DHCP/DNS box from FreeBSD to Debian 10.3
"Buster" for various reasons. It's routing and NATing and DHCPing and
DNSing, and a simh VAX-11/785 running OpenVMS 7.3 on it can talk DECnet phase IV to
another simh VAX-11/785 running on a BeagleBone Green (a small single-board computer) on
my LAN. The emulation running on the router connects to a tap device, which is bridged to
the physical ethernet interface for my LAN.
Thanks for starting this Mark.? I've been meaning to set up some sort of DECnet router
but this is a good push.? I have an Ubquiti EdgeRouter 4 as my firewall/router and I have
a separate Raspberry Pi 3B+ as my DNS/DHCP/NTP/anything network service server.? I will
probably make the Pi the DECnet router also since it's terribly under-utilized.
Thanks to Paul, too for writing the pyDECnet router.
John H. Reinhardt