[HECnet] Quiet list and a question about setting up a system

On 25 Jun 2008, at 19:19, Angela Kahealani wrote: I'm new to this... is there an area router software for Linux? I have a Linux box with two NICs, and want to run KLH10 TOPS-20 (which I understand needs its own NIC) and wonder if I can run on the remaining Linux NIC an area router in Linux software? And run the bridge program between DECNET and TCP-IP... and link/route all that to your bridge? or am I barking up the wrong tree? I was hoping to contribute to HECNET as much as possible, adding to its' redundant routing and DECNET-TCP/IP bridging. Being located on the Hawaiian islands, and not knowing any other Hawaiian HECnet nodes, I thought it might be useful as a routing point. The Linux kernel has DECnet routine built into it, it's just a matter of enabling it at boot time or it will default to an end-node. If you need something to fill in the routing tables for areas, then the dnroute daemon can do that for you. None of this is fantastically-well tested though. But it worked for me once ;-) See http://linux-decnet.wiki.sourceforge.net/FAQ2#router If you're running Debian then it's quite easy (I hope!) to edit /etc/defaults/decnet to set up routing. ...let us know how you get one! Chrissie