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<p>Hi Johnny,</p>
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<p>On 5/2/18 6:15 PM, Supratim Sanyal wrote:<br>
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<p>On 5/2/18 5:50 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:d6b7e4d0-67a1-eac0-87fa-dcd6f0e64270@softjar.se">Sumpratim,
an area router is just a more capable DECnet router. It has to
be either a PDP-11 or a VAX. Alpha's does/did not support area
routing. <br>
Obviously other gear like Ciscos can also act as area routers. <br>
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There are various rules on what is connected to what when it
comes to the various routing domains in DECnet. <br>
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Once you have an area router then yes, any number (well, up to
63) is supported. There are no other limitations. <br>
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Essentially, area routing isn't anh more complicated that
routing within the area. As an admin, you don't really have to
do much of anything. <br>
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But it's good if you have some bandwidth, a fixed address, and
are generally online. <br>
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Johnny <br>
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OK, I am willing to give this a shot. Let me think a bit more
about the specifics, I will contact you soon.<br>
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I have made some progress. IMPVAX is now running on a VPS with a
dedicated static IP address and plenty of bandwidth. It is
configured as an Area router (Level 2) and connected to MIM via
MULTINET. It is communicating successfully with my other nodes at
home via a VDE uplink.<br>
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Next steps: (1) configure your bridge.c on the VPS and try to
connect to it from home instead of VDE (2) configure MULTINET server
(3) configure GRE endpoint.<br>
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Best,<br>
Supratim<br>
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