25 Feb
2020
25 Feb
'20
8:33 a.m.
The fact that the bridge turns everything into a single Ethernet segment is
one of the reasons why I wrote my own user mode router. It interoperates
with the bridge and also SIMH DDCMP (although I haven't tried that for a
while and it looks like I haven't documented the fact either!).
Regards
Rob
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE <owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE> On Behalf
Of Robert Armstrong
Sent: 25 February 2020 04:13
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: RE: [HECnet] SIMH experience?
giant
GRE and Johnny's bridge software are two
good options.
The problem with Johnny's bridge is that it turns everything into a Ethernet segment. Everybody appears to be adjacent to
everybody else.
That's not realistic and doesn't scale well.
GRE is a non-starter unless you have a Cisco router.
If you don't like Multinet, write something better. Make sure it works
on a
VAX...
Bob