On 2011-12-23 15.51, Brian Hechinger wrote: RIFTER$ mcr ncp show known circuits [...] Nice... The last time I was joined to HECnet was 11 years ago!! Long time no see. :-) That got me thinking about that time. Things were much different back then. Johnny's bridge program didn't bridge ethernet at that time. It bridged serial! Gha! I was trying to remember who might have been around back then. So that was you... I think that makes you the first place outside my own experimentation that was connected to HECnet. :-) Serial ports was my first solution. It seemed like a very easy thing to do, and it worked just fine. The only "problem" was that DECnet over asynch serial ports are slow, since they are limited to 9600 bps. I might have run with that for at most a year before I wrote the bridge program to replace it. I also needed physical serial ports all over the place. :-) Johnny