30 Nov
2021
30 Nov
'21
9:17 p.m.
On Nov 30, 2021, at 3:14 PM, Robert Armstrong <bob
at jfcl.com> wrote:
I think in the early days they were useful and/or necessary for their DECnet over IP
tunneling capabilities. Between DECnet/RSX and DECnet/Python and Robert Jarratt's
router, that's clearly far less true now, probably not at all really.
Or to put it differently, if there is any reason why Cisco routers can't be replaced
by PyDECnet nodes, I'd like to know what's missing.
paul
Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se>
wrote:
All of that aside, I would actually be more exited if all Cisco boxes
went away. It's really annoying to not be able to troubleshoot anything
on a Cisco box, when a Cisco box is in the path of something I want to
check.
Ditto on that! They don't speak NML and you can't talk to them with NCP.
They're not very exciting things to have on a DECnet network...