9 Jan
2013
9 Jan
'13
7:09 p.m.
On 9 Jan 2013, at 13:05, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 01/09/2013 01:02 PM, Ian McLaughlin wrote:
I want in on your crazy GRE and DECnet routing setups! ;)
I could install vyatta which is linux-based meaning I could /maybe/
build linux-decnet and have it function as an area router.
Management could also be done via SNMP, but not to the ease of
Cisco. Thoughts?
I'd use my current router as-is, but FreeBSD lacks DECnet bits. :(
What about using dynamips, a Cisco emulator? GNS3 is a beautiful GUI
front end for it. I've never tried decnet through it, but I have
used it to route between several virtual machines.
Dynamips works great, and that might be a
sorta-approaching-maybe-reasonable approach if one already has a VM host
machine somewhere to run it on. Otherwise...get a Cisco. ;)
I have a VM host with plenty of RAM, CPU, and Disk. :)
It's even on a UPS that can be run on a generator in emergencies.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA