13 Mar
2023
13 Mar
'23
6:03 p.m.
On Mar 13, 2023, at 11:55 AM, Johnny Billquist
<bqt(a)softjar.se> wrote:
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.
Yes, IP would work for nodes having Multinet support. Can a Toad do that?
But I don't understand your other point. If I have a prime endnode, adjacent to a
prime ("bilingual") router, it can talk to MIM, or anyone else on the HECnet.
There is of course also the point of "I can do it so why not?"
paul
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...