John Floren wrote: On 3/30/08, Bob Armstrong <bob at jfcl.com> wrote: Wouldn't it be best to have someone geographically closer for reasons of latency? I don't think it really matters much anymore and besides, it's not as if HECnet is a high bandwidth application :-) Then I think you're going to have to connect to his server, regardless of geography. Ok, then I guess I may end up using one of Johnny's machines after all. I don't have a big problem with that. It's just a latency issue (as you noted elsewhere). AFAIK, you'll have to open ports in either case. Multinet uses UDP port 700; I don't know about Johnny's program. If it's an outbound port, there's no problem; we're talking about your typical Linksys wireless router sitting on a cable modem. If I need to open an inbound port, which wouldn't surprise me, I'll talk to the landlady... she'll probably approve, she knows I work in computing and for some reason that makes people assume I know what I'm doing ;) :-) Yes, you need to open up, and forward packets to/from a specific UDP port through your firewall. Not that magical... Do you already have TCP/IP on either of these machines? What/which one are you using? I have UCX on both of them; I use LOKI by far the most. Quick question--LOKI already has DECnet-Plus installed, that will work for HECnet, right? As I understand it, DECnet-Plus is backwards compatible with Phase IV? It should work fine. I have backed down to plain DECnet on my VMS machines, since DECnet+ just confuse me anyway. Plain DECnet just seems easier to work with. :-) Johnny