7 Jan
2018
7 Jan
'18
2:30 a.m.
On 1/6/2018 20:20, Johnny Billquist wrote:
We could, in theory, connect them all using the bridge
as well. But
it's not a good idea. DECnet does not scale well in that way.
Security is not the biggest issue.
True that. I know first-hand what a mess packets looping back over
ethernet can be.
Still, Mark could patch in all simulated nodes and bridge in all
physical nodes to a VDE switch for local DECnet traffic, and use a
router SIMH node for Multineting to MIM ...