[HECnet] DECnet routing on Alpha platforms

On 2011-07-16 19.22, hvlems at zonnet.nl wrote: The restriction was for level-1 (or circuit) routing and was introduced when the Alpha was new (no Itanium yet, Alpha was king of the hill). Ethernet was to be the network for all sites. Ethernet is a different domain than DECnet routing. You need DECnet routing even with Ethernet. And Alphas can officially act as level 1 routers. It is level 2 (area) routers they supposedly can not be. AFAIK there is still no DDCMP support for decnet on alpha. Right. Johnny Verzonden vanaf mijn draadloze BlackBerry -toestel ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *From: * "Steve Davidson" <jeep at scshome.net> *Sender: * owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE *Date: *Sat, 16 Jul 2011 11:28:12 -0400 *To: *<hecnet at Update.UU.SE> *ReplyTo: * hecnet at Update.UU.SE *Subject: *[HECnet] DECnet routing on Alpha platforms While it is true that HP does not officially support Alpha's as routers (according to their web site), it works just fine! I suspect, but do not know for sure, that this was more of a marketing ploy to push Itanium over Alpha. If you go the emulated route (i.e. VAX 3900) this becomes a non-issue as VAXen ARE supported as DECnet routers. -Steve