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Hops SOL (59.10) =>NI-0-0 / QNA-0 <= STUPI (59.58) 8.50 -1 -1 4.27 STUPI (59.58) =>TCP-0-1 / TCP-0-59<= GORVAX (8.400) 2.52 -1 -1 1.34 GORVAX (8.400) =>TCP-0-2 / TCP-0-8 <= LEGATO (2.1) 4.52 -1 -1 2.40 How come STUPI is talking to LEGATO via GORVAX, when STUPI has a direct Multinet connection to LEGATO? It could have done it in one hop, and instead it chose two. Answer: because the circuit costs are screwed up. With redundant paths you have to be really careful about how you set your circuit costs in order to get the routings that you want; otherwise you'll get foolish results like this. In this case it's the received metric. But, we got redundancy, just not optimal routng..-:) Setting the metrics in Hecnet is a bit tricky, as the "ethernet bridges" are invisible to DECnet routing. Here is a suggestion.... Set all multinet links to metric 5 in both ends. Set all bridged ethnert interfacec to 10 ?? The NETPTH executable you have runs on 36 bit machines? Yeppp... It's really a shame that there's not a VAX version. But it just does a buch of NML show;s and matches the links... -P