[HECnet] Connections?

[Johnny Billquist]

Guys. I figure I should try to get a more formalized handling of 
connections to HECnet.

With my bridge, it's mostly just people connecting to me, but this is 
not a solution that scales very well, so in general I now try to 
discourage people from this option. When possible, I prefer to move 
people away from it.

Multinet on the other hand scales well. And is possible to use directly 
both in VMS and RSX. However, it is silly and inefficient if all 
multinet links are to go to me. So I'm thinking about identifying a few 
people/places elsewhere in the world, which can be used for connections 
where it makes more sense for a somewhat closer point of connection.

So, I would go on dealing with Europe. Might at some point be that we'd 
like a second point in the south of Europe, but that is not a high 
priority right now.

However, for the US, it would be nice if we could identify a location on 
each coast, which have a capable system, and normally is always online, 
and which have a good bandwidth, and would be willing to setup 
connections to new machines that want to come online.

So, are there any takers? I'll continue to be the first point of contact 
when people come asking, but I'd be happy if I could redirect them to 
the appropriate person once we have figured out a few basic details.
And then these two persons can work on establishing the actual link.

   Johnny

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