9 Nov
2022
9 Nov
'22
4:59 p.m.
On Nov 9, 2022, at 10:47 AM, Robert Armstrong
<bob(a)jfcl.com> wrote:
SIMH supports the Ethernet over UDP tunnel protocol, so you can use a simulated Ethernet
device on Wifi using that option. And of course you could use a DDCMP device for the SIMH
DECnet node as well.
paul
Paul Koning <paulkoning(a)comcast.net>
wrote:
You can use any of the PyDECnet interface types except "real" Ethernet.
Not really sure if that's what he wants to do or not. Actually, not
really sure what configuration he wants, but ...
Another way of saying this would be that real DECnet over WiFi is
problematic and the only option is to wrap it in some other protocol and
tunnel it. If he's got several other computers on his WiFi that all want
to speak DECnet (presumably using simh) then he's going to have to run
pyDECnet on each one of those computers to connect to the RISC board running
pyDECnet. If he's running Multinet or the RSX TCP stack on those simh
instances then he could possibly avoid using pyDECnet on that end, but you
still have to tunnel the DECnet one way or another.