[HECnet] Configuring py-decnet.

I think you assumed he has a Cisco router :-) > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner- > hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Johnny Billquist > Sent: Saturday, 22 August 2020 9:22 PM > To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE > Subject: Re: [HECnet] Configuring py-decnet. > > Hi, Thord. > > The RSX manuals are probably partially usable, but there are certainly > some significant differences in how this works in RSX and RSTS/E as well. > I noticed that you have phase III manuals for RSTS/E V7 on bitsavers. > They might be partially helpful as well? (I suspect you already know these.) > > About your setup. Not sure why you have pydecnet there between the > virtual tap ethernet and real ethernet. Is it implicit that you have two > pydecnet instances in there, with some distance between them? Because > from the delqa you can get to the physical ethernet, and if your Cisco > is on that same ethernet, then I'd say pydecnet is not needed. > > Johnny > > > > > On 2020-08-22 12:29, Thord Nilson wrote: >> Hello all! >> I am trying to test up decnet iv on a rsts/e 10.1 system on simh and >> hopefully connect to hecnet. Currently borrowing a node name/number > from >> Peter L. >> >> Is the following setup workable/suitable? >> >> rsts/e --> delqua --> virtual tap ethernet --> pydecnet --> >> real-ethernet --> GRE tunnel. >> >> Anyone who has done this and willing to share the setup used? >> Or any good links? >> >> I have not found a decnet-iv manual for rsts/e online, but maybe the rsx >> manuals are usable. Anyone know? >> >> Best regards, >> Thord. >> >> >> > > -- > Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus > || on a psychedelic trip > email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books > pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol