[HECnet] Area 48.....

-----Original Message----- From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Brian Hechinger Sent: 07 January 2013 19:03 To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: Re: [HECnet] Area 48..... On 1/7/2013 1:59 PM, Ian McLaughlin wrote: On 2013-01-07, at 10:54 AM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote: What kind of cisco tunnel? I'm curious as to if I could replicate any of that setup with open source stuff... I have a Cisco 7206VXR router that has Cisco's Decnet implementation on it. It is now acting as my area router, and connects to Dave's Cisco via an IP tunnel. From what I understand, Cisco's Decnet implementation is proprietary - not sure if it works well with non-Cisco stuff. Ian Cisco's DECnet is, well, DECnet. :) There is nothing special about the tunnel. It's just a bog standard GRE tunnel (or you could use an IPSec tunnel if you wanted to). The Cisco just talks DECnet on all the links you tell it to. As far as replicating it, you'd need something that can route DECnet and can talk GRE, that's all it would take. Good luck finding that though. :) One of my plans was to extend the user mode router I wrote to interoperate with Cisco. I don't believe it is all that hard to do. The code is written to make this fairly easy. Regards Rob