On Jun 25, 2013, at 7:19 PM, Bob Armstrong wrote:
link to GORVAX, but the IP address I'm using seems to be dead...
Same here - the Multinet link to GORVAX hasn't worked for a while.
Multinet (over UDP) is such a fundamentally broken idea that it would be a *really* good
idea to get rid of it. Every other option is vastly superior. GRE is a good one
because it emulates a datagram datalink (Ethernet) over a datagram transport (IP). SIMH
DMC-11 emulation is good because it emulation a connection oriented datalink (DDCMP) over
a connection transport (TCP). Conversely, Multinet runs a connectionless transport to
carry DECnet point to point traffic, in gross violation of most of the datalink
requirements. So it only just barely works part of the time, and it can't possibly
ever work any better.
paul