13 Mar
2023
13 Mar
'23
4:55 p.m.
On 2023-03-13 16:06, Paul Koning wrote:
Right. And since the only Prime implementation that I am aware of would
be the PyDECnet one, it means you can talk DECnet directly between
those, but not to anything else. However, you can also achieve this by
just having GRE, Multinet, or whatever in between those two nodes, and
just use IP.
So I'm not sure how much value it could be considered to be to implement
Prime in PyDECnet.
Johnny
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On Mar 13, 2023, at 10:55 AM, Johnny Billquist
<bqt(a)softjar.se> wrote:
...
The problem with Phase IV Prime is that it will not be compatible with any other Phase IV
node, so it would be of very limited value.
Phase IV Prime can only talk to prime neighbors, but via a prime router it can talk to
anything else just like regular Phase IV. So it should be useful; the only limitation is
that you'd need to have a Phase IV prime router adjacency. I'm planning to implement that at some point
in PyDECnet to allow it to talk to DECnet nodes on WiFi, where changing the address
doesn't normally work. But if there is any other hardware with that limitation it
would work there as well. The changes are pretty modest, especially for end nodes.
True. But you will only be able to talk to other Phase IV prime nodes. And I don't
think I've ever seen any, so that would boil down to just be able to talk DECnet to
other PyDECnet nodes. Not sure how much value that would have...