<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div><br></div><div><br>On May 2, 2018, at 4:49 PM, Johnny Billquist <<a href="mailto:bqt@softjar.se">bqt@softjar.se</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>But I'm almost a bit surprised that noone have really stepped up with multinet links in the US. Is there really noone with the resources and ability to connect potential new people?</span><br></div></blockquote><br><div>Hi Johnny,</div><div><br></div><div>As you know, I have a MULTINET uplink from Eastern US from a SIMH VAX, area 1 only. If I am guided on how to configure an area router (is it a piece of hardware off eBay? Or another SIMH vax? Or the same VAX configured differently?) I can support all areas if my understanding of area routers is correct.</div><div><br></div><div>I am also already running an internet-accessible VDE switch; anyone on area 1 can simply do this and will be connected to you over my MULTINET. All I ask is please enable fstp using the —fstp switch when creating the VDE switch locally:</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0px;">Create VDE switch (DECnet nodes can be plugged into this switch from real or virtual NICs via vde_plug):</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><font data-blogger-escaped-style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">/usr/local/bin/vde_switch -t vde-decnet-tap0 -s /tmp/vde-decnet.ctl -m 666 --mgmt /tmp/vde-decnet.mgmt --mgmtmode 666 --daemon --fstp</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And connect to my public switch which connects to IMPVAX to HECnet via MULTINET:</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><font data-blogger-escaped-style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">/usr/local/bin/dpipe /usr/local/bin/vde_plug /tmp/vde-decnet.ctl = /usr/bin/ssh <a href="mailto:vde0@sanyalnet-cloud-vps3.freeddns.org">vde0@sanyalnet-cloud-vps3.freeddns.org</a> vde_plug</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><font data-blogger-escaped-style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><font data-blogger-escaped-style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- Supratim</b></font></p></div></body></html>