[HECnet] Multinet alternatives ...

Mine has been built to be portable (it is in C). I have it running on Windows, Debian and FreeBSD. I have not tried on VMS, but I did do a partial port to VAXELN. I don't foresee great difficulties getting it to run on VMS. It looks like I may have done some partial VMS work, but it has been a while since I looked. I could look into reviving/continuing that if there is interest. Mine won't talk to TOPS10/20, yet. I started something on that too if I remember correctly, I did build a DDCMP implementation which I think partially worked. I think I foundered on just getting DECnet running on TOPS20 on SIMH, I did some work with Mark Pizzolato and Timothe Litt to build a KDP emulation, but I struggled to keep up with them and gave up in the end. I am not sure where that went. I need a bit of time to work out what my status is I think as it has been a while. Regards Rob From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE <owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE> On Behalf Of Robert Armstrong Sent: 25 February 2020 14:42 To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: [HECnet] Multinet alternatives ... What are the alternatives for bridging DECnet systems across the Internet that don't require any special hardware and can be self hosted on OpenVMS/VAX? I'm aware of Paul's Python router, but I didn't think it ran on a VAX. Am I wrong about that? Is there a Python for OpenVMS/VAX? I believe there's a port for AXP but I didn't know about one for VAX. And I saw Rob mentioned his user mode DECnet router. Same questions - what environment does that require? And I saw mention it being both Multinet and simh DDCMp compatible - will it talk to a simh KS10/TOPS10/DMR ? Bob