Would you care to elaborate? My knowledge of DECnet routing is very limited.= It;s no different than I-ISIS. Within a area you treat all the boarder gateways (are routers) the same, so for itgoing packets a node inside the area will pick it's closest area router with external connectivity to senda outgoing packet through. Another area will pick ANY router it think is usefulle for the destination area, regardless of the internal topology of that area.. Bottom line: I have area 59 in Stockholm, Uppsala, Reston VA, and Sunnnyvave CA, if we want to have a usefull "global core" it needs to be in the same area.... -P -brian On Feb 23, 2013, at 19:30, Peter Lothberg <roll at Stupi.SE> wrote: On 02/23/2013 07:21 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote: I've managed to coax my provider in to giving me another IP (apparently 5 IPs come with my plan=05), so I can get a virtual cisco up on my VPS (in Canada). =20 Brian, would you like to get this all joined in to the mesh? Is a NA hub still needed or has someone else offered one? (This'd be on an unmetered gigE pipe) =20 I think running a hub on an emulated router maybe isn't the best idea. (sorry to say so) =20 We also have to take in to account how to get some kind of resonalble routing, as the inside of an area is not exchanged with other areas. =20 -P