[HECnet] VAXELN Router on HECnet

-----Original Message----- From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner- hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Johnny Billquist Sent: 08 February 2016 13:09 To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Cc: johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk Subject: Re: [HECnet] VAXELN Router on HECnet This is really cool. I want to add information about this in my node

Care to give me a nodename, and some additional information? (I have the hardware and OS, but version, and location maybe?) Johnny On 2016-02-07 23:40, Robert Jarratt wrote: > Just wanted to let people know that I have ported my user mode router > on to VAXELN, running on an rtVAX 1000 (KA620), and it is up on HECnet. > > There are some compromises, and it is pretty slow at the moment, with > adjacencies dropping from time to time, but if you see a router at > 5.30 then it is VAXELN. > > Right now it is running on the real hardware, but as that is noisy and > uses 155W of power then it won't be around very often. For development > purposes I also run it on SIMH where it is a bit quicker, but that > will also be intermittent. The machine is diskless and has only one > Ethernet adapter, so it is running raw packets on the LAN and talking > to Johnny's bridge using UDP, it is acting as my router to HECnet. You > should be able to reach nodes at 5.11, 5.99 and 5.100, but it **will**

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