On 2013-01-07 19:52, Ian McLaughlin wrote: Wouldn't it be ironic if Hecnet ran out of addresses :) It would. However, I don't expect us to run out of addresses any time soon. However, areas are a rather limited resource, and we are slowly running out of them. Sampsa, do you really think three areas are motivated? DECnet was not designed with the idea that physically separate places needed separate areas. Areas are more of a logicial division thing (although some constraints do exist on areas). Does anyone know what the largest DECnet deplayment was duing the good old days? Easynet at DEC was larger than 64K nodes, actually. Using hidden areas... p.s. Johnny, just in case you've still got the bindings in your bridge for area 42, you can remove them. Thanks to Dave McGuire, I've now got my Cisco router connected to him. Is there anyone else on Hecnet offering Cisco tunnels that I could set up for redundancy? We should soon have our Cisco box at Update up and running... Johnny On 2013-01-07, at 10:44 AM, sampsa at mac.com wrote: Johnny, As I've just moved to Beirut (well Dahab at the moment temporarily) and intend to keep areas 8 and 47 up and running, any chance I could get 48 for myself too? Was thinking of a PPTP VPN and then multinet to area 8.. sampsa -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol