<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On Feb 24, 2020, at 1:28 PM, Fred <<a href="mailto:fcoffey@misernet.net" class="">fcoffey@misernet.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">My area router, FRUGAL, boots fine and gets adjacency with my Multinet-over-IP connections, that is, LEGATO, MIM, and 31.3:: as well as other DECNet hosts (MISER, CHEAP)</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">However, the connection from FRUGAL "flaps" (going up and down) quite a bit with local DECNet hosts as well as the ip-connection to 31.3::</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Are you sure that the problem is on your end? PDXVAX is my area router, it’s also the only physical system I have online at this time (a VAXstation 4000/60). I have quite a bit of flapping. I’m using Johnny’s bridge software on an OpenBSD system. I figure part of the problem is the distance.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Zane</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>