2 Aug
2020
2 Aug
'20
2:07 a.m.
Bob's right. The machine with MultiNet doesn't have an appropriate routing license
but I'm actively looking at another old VAX to see what might be recovered.
By the way I've had no response to my OpenVMS Hobbyist license requests sent some two
weeks ago. I used a couple of different email addresses in case one was somehow blocked.
While I received an automated response in each case, nothing has happened since.
Bob, while I do run two Centos servers to support the New Zealand DMR MARC and IPSC2 DMR+
international ham DMR repeater networks, my Linux knowledge is pretty rudimentary! These
are real servers in server room at my work as that was an easier thing to manage (for me
at least) than something virtualised.
Given my work with Cisco on pretty much a daily basis it has become my platform of choice
for routing and switching tasks and I'm impressed that IOS supports DECnet.
Other options are possible but with routers already installed and running, expanding the
config to add HECnet avoids more hardware.
Cheers, John
On 2/08/2020,
at 11:40, Robert Armstrong <bob at jfcl.com> wrote:
?
if you are in a situation where the machine
running your multinet connection
may be up/down and this affects your connectivity then my recommendation
would be to setup a machine running pyDECnet.
John?s biggest problem is that he doesn?t have a DVNETRTG license; he only has an end
node. That means the machine running Multinet can?t also talk over the Ethernet to his
other machines at the same time. pyDECnet would also solve the problem, but he?s running
Windows and doesn?t have any Linux machines.
Bob