5 Nov
2021
5 Nov
'21
7:37 p.m.
Are you getting consistent responses from 20's?
Mine keep whining about 28NH every so often (and I keep forgetting to
tell you...)? For example,
19:58:06 OPRWTO job 0 OPERATOR detached running SYSJOB
????????????????? -- DECnet link message --
Communication failure to the following nodes:
28NH
I don't have dates, I'm afraid.? The Galaxy log is only time stamped; no
date turn-over.? I fixed this at Columbia; it's on my PANDA list...
Also QCOCAL:: (31.10) today, but I'm not sure what that is.
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On 11/5/21 11:08 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
You can look at the map
(http://akdesign.dyndns.org:8080/map).
?Physicallly closest may not be the best answer -- closest to the rest
of the net is also interesting -- but both of those should be visible
on the map. ?You can turn off Level 1 nodes and links to see the area
routing backbone only, that's probably the best resource to answer
your question.
paul
On Nov 5, 2021, at 5:04 AM, Brian Hechinger
<wonko at 4amlunch.net> wrote:
Yeah, I'm ready to fire up PyDECnet in preparation of getting a
couple simh instances going. Who'd going to be my closest router?
-brian
On 27/10/21 17:04, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> I'd probably point at someone in the UK. Let me know if we should
> start sorting this out.
>
> ? Johnny
>
> On 2021-10-27 17:05, Brian Hechinger wrote:
>>
>>>> ...
>>>> For the others, Paul pretty much summed it up. In addition, it
>>>> should probably be mentioned that Multinet over TCP or UDP is
>>>> possible inside VMS and RSX (as well as with PyDECnet). DDCMP
>>>> over TCP or UDP is possible with PyDECnet (actually, I could
>>>> probably add that in RSX as well), while GRE is mainly for Cisco,
>>>> but I think PyDECnet also can do that one?
>>>>
>>>> So choices are somewhat dependent on what system/software you are
>>>> using.
>>> Yes, PyDECnet supports: real Ethernet, Ethernet bridging over UDP,
>>> GRE, Multinet over TCP (and UDP but don't), DDCMP over TCP, UDP,
>>> simulated async connections including Telnet, real async
>>> connections, and sync connections via my DDCMP framer device.? In
>>> other words, most of the datalinks DECnet has ever supported.?
>>> Missing are 802.5 token ring, HDLC, X.25, and PCL, I think that's
>>> about it.? Some day I'll think about 802.5 support not so much for
>>> that but because it would enable DECnet over WiFi.
>>
>>
>> I was intending on running PyDECnet. I'm in southern Portugal. Not
>> sure who's closest to me.
>>
>>
>> -brian
>>
>