It's hard to describe Multinet with words that are printable. It was designed by fools who never bothered to understand the DECnet architecture specifications and were utterly clueless about competent protocol design. Avoid it if at all possible. GRE tunneling is a good answer. (So is SIMH DMC emulation, if both ends can speak it.) paul On Sep 22, 2013, at 4:18 PM, Robert Jarratt <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com<mailto:robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com>> wrote: I don t have multinet and I have never installed it. What protocol does it use under the covers, is it something proprietary to multinet? Could I get the DECbrouter I bought recently to interoperate with your side? If it is not too hard I could try implementing Multinet interop in my user mode router. Regards Rob From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE<mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE> [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE<mailto:hecnet at Update.UU.SE>] On Behalf Of Steve Davidson Sent: 22 September 2013 11:43 To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE<mailto:hecnet at Update.UU.SE> Subject: RE: [HECnet] Connecting to HECnet from DEC Legacy 19-20 Oct If you decide to use Multinet and have access to a dynamic DNS name, then I can link SG1:: to it via the SW at this end. It is completely automated. If we can manage to install Multinet on GORVAX:: then the links would be even faster. -Steve ________________________________ From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE<mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE> on behalf of Mark Wickens Sent: Sat 9/21/2013 16:18 To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE<mailto:hecnet at Update.UU.SE> Subject: Re: [HECnet] Connecting to HECnet from DEC Legacy 19-20 Oct On 21/09/2013 21:12, Robert Jarratt wrote: I am hoping to connect to HECnet from the DEC Legacy event in October, hopefully connecting a few interesting systems to HECnet and allowing attendees to explore HECnet. I would be using a USB 3G device to do this, so I wouldn t know my IP until the day itself. Is there anyone with a bridge on HECnet who would be available during UK daytime on those days to configure their bridge to peer with me? There may be more than one change of IP address over the course of the weekend though. Are there any other options? Thanks Rob Rob, Obviously I will have my home bridge going, so maybe we can keep this in-house with a bit of experimentation? I think this is maybe what I did last time, I really can't remember but it makes a lot of sense and it does shake my memory a bit! Mark.