And now I'm seeing quite a bit more traffic on my router! -Steve ________________________________ From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE on behalf of Bob Armstrong Sent: Thu 1/5/2012 11:14 To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: RE: [HECnet] Multinet circuit costs where DECnet *might* get confused. Well, this is easy enough to test experimentally. I've disabled the redundant Multinet links on LEGATO, so in theory there should be no redundancy now at least as far as LEGATO goes. This means not only disabling the direct links from LEGATO to other bridge nodes (e.g. GORVAX, SG1) but _also_ the links from LEGATO to other nodes that in turn have Multinet links to bridge nodes (STUPI, FRUGAL, ROOSTA). In theory I suppose the latter step is excessive since we can assume that a two hop path would always cost more than a one hop path, but there's no guarantee of that. So just to be safe this absolutely eliminates redundant paths. I think that leaves me with area 54, CIERE, as the only machine that _only_ gets its connectivity thru LEGATO. That link I've left turned on. Now LEGATO sees the path to everything except CEIRE as being thru the bridge (QNA-1), which is what we'd expect. OpenVMS Network status for local node 2.1 LEGATO on 5-JAN-2012 08:11:19.43 Area Cost Hops Next Hop to Area 1 4 1 QNA-1 -> 1.300 CTAKAH 2 0 0 (Local) -> 2.1 LEGATO 3 7 2 QNA-1 -> 19.41 SG1 4 4 1 QNA-1 -> 4.249 SLAVE 5 14 4 QNA-1 -> 19.41 SG1 6 4 1 QNA-1 -> 6.1 STAR69 8 7 2 QNA-1 -> 19.41 SG1 11 4 1 QNA-1 -> 11.2 MAISA 19 4 1 QNA-1 -> 19.41 SG1 20 14 2 QNA-1 -> 19.41 SG1 33 7 2 QNA-1 -> 19.41 SG1 42 4 1 QNA-1 -> 42.1 CANADA 52 10 3 QNA-1 -> 19.41 SG1 54 2 1 TCP-0-54 -> 54.59 CEIRE 59 7 2 QNA-1 -> 19.41 SG1 Try your file copies again and see if anything changes... Bob