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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Without knowing that anyone was already doing this I also brought up a SIMH VAX on a VPC in Dallas, Texas </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>It has a dedicated, fixed IP address, it is running Multinet and it is a DECnet IV Area router. I’m going to get an additional set of interfaces for it since once Multinet grabs the interface, I can’t get to the underlying host. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>If it checks out well, I’ll duplicate it on a VPC in Virginia.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I don’t have HECnet connectivity but I can probably complete my testing by bringing up a link to my home SIMH cluster.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>--Dave<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'> owner-hecnet@Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet@Update.UU.SE] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Supratim Sanyal<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 4, 2018 5:24 PM<br><b>To:</b> hecnet@Update.UU.SE<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [HECnet] Connections?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p>Hi Johnny,<o:p></o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p>On 5/2/18 6:15 PM, Supratim Sanyal wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p>On 5/2/18 5:50 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>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><br>There are various rules on what is connected to what when it comes to the various routing domains in DECnet. <br><br>Once you have an area router then yes, any number (well, up to 63) is supported. There are no other limitations. <br><br>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><br>But it's good if you have some bandwidth, a fixed address, and are generally online. <br><br> Johnny <o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>OK, I am willing to give this a shot. Let me think a bit more about the specifics, I will contact you soon.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><br>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><br>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><br>Best,<br>Supratim<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Sent via Thunderbird/macOS High Sierra on Lenovo Legion Y720/Windows 10/VirtualBox<o:p></o:p></pre></div></body></html>