25 Feb
2020
25 Feb
'20
11:22 a.m.
All the negative comments I?ve seen about Multinet...
I?ve never had a problem with it, connecting nodes across the Internet via TCP. The only
dislike I have is it?s half-baked attempt at providing a $QIO interface for I/O (I?m
comparing it to CMUTEK TCPIP of fond memory)
Nowadays, thanks to pydecnet, the DECnet over Internet part of my setup is handled by that
and the rest is Ethernet (mixture of real, tap and ether to bridge devices). One day I?ll
get around to GRE.... perhaps when I get my first real Alpha box
Keith
On 25 Feb 2020, at 07:33, Rob Jarratt
<robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com> wrote:
?The fact that the bridge turns everything into a single Ethernet segment is
one of the reasons why I wrote my own user mode router. It interoperates
with the bridge and also SIMH DDCMP (although I haven't tried that for a
while and it looks like I haven't documented the fact either!).
Regards
Rob
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE <owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE> On Behalf
Of Robert Armstrong
Sent: 25 February 2020 04:13
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: RE: [HECnet] SIMH experience?
giant
GRE and Johnny's bridge software are two good
options.
The problem with Johnny's bridge is that it turns everything into a Ethernet segment. Everybody appears to be
adjacent to everybody else.
That's not realistic and doesn't scale well.
GRE is a non-starter unless you have a Cisco router.
If you don't like Multinet, write something better. Make sure it works
on a
VAX...
Bob