Back to the problem in hand. Any ideas? Can ping you 12.1023 and 12.2 from the router which is good; can ping 22.10 from the router which is also good; but for some reason i cannot connect from VAX (22.10) on FastEthernet0/1 to 12.2. This must be a local issue. Is there anything else I need to setup above what I have for FE0/1 and decnet on my router? decnet routing 22.100 decnet node-type area interface FastEthernet0/1 ip address 10.22.1.254 255.255.255.0 speed auto full-duplex lat enabled decnet cost 4 and my tunnel to you which I don t think is the problem interface Tunnel57 description HECnet tunnel for Tim Sneddon (Area 12) [Version:274] no ip address decnet cost 20 tunnel source FastEthernet0/1 tunnel destination 120.146.225.243 tunnel path-mtu-discovery Mark On 2 Jan 2015, at 19:38, Hans Vlems <hvlems at zonnet.nl> wrote: I'll try to find v3.2 tomorrow Paul Verzonden vanaf mijn BlackBerry 10-smartphone. Origineel bericht Van: Paul_Koning at Dell.com Verzonden: vrijdag 2 januari 2015 20:23 Aan: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Beantwoorden: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Onderwerp: Re: [HECnet] Hecnet Peering On Jan 2, 2015, at 2:08 PM, Hans Vlems <hvlems at zonnet.nl> wrote: It would be nice to move the connection off a Linux box to a VMS system. There is a libpcap version for VMS, it's used by simh. The problem is Python. AFAIK that i s just v2.7 for VMS. I know my systems run that kit, but I don't use it much so a newer version may be available. Hans The Python 3.3 what s new document says that VMS is no longer supported due to lack of a maintainer . So it may be possible to build Python 3.2 on VMS. The current DECnet/Python code wants 3.3, but earlier on I used 3.2 and there isn t much that needs 3.3. (In other words, it would not be all that hard to change it back to allow 3.2.) paul