The restriction was for level-1 (or circuit) routing and was introduced when the Alpha was new (no Itanium yet, Alpha was king of the hill). Ethernet was to be the network for all sites. AFAIK there is still no DDCMP support for decnet on alpha. Verzonden vanaf mijn draadloze BlackBerry -toestel From: "Steve Davidson" <jeep at scshome.net> Sender: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 11:28:12 -0400 To: <hecnet at Update.UU.SE> ReplyTo: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: [HECnet] DECnet routing on Alpha platforms While it is true that HP does not officially support Alpha's as routers (according to their web site), it works just fine! I suspect, but do not know for sure, that this was more of a marketing ploy to push Itanium over Alpha. If you go the emulated route (i.e. VAX 3900) this becomes a non-issue as VAXen ARE supported as DECnet routers. -Steve