<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Mark - <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">PyDECnet will work fine. If you are in CA, Bob's A2RTR is closest to you, he may chime in. Or you can connect to PYRTR in MD that I maintain. Or both.</span><div><br></div><div>There seems to have been great leaps in packet data over amateur radio. Your situation seems to be perfect for experiments there too. But another topic.</div><div><br></div><div>Let me know if you would like to connect to Uppsala via Maryland.</div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div>/s<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">---</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Supratim Sanyal, W1XMT</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">39.19151 N, 77.23432 W</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">QCOCAL::SANYAL via <a href="http://www.update.uu.se/~bqt/hecnet.html">HECnet</a></span></div></div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Mar 2, 2020, at 6:35 AM, Johnny Billquist <<a href="mailto:bqt@softjar.se">bqt@softjar.se</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>Hi.</span><br><span></span><br><span>On 2020-03-02 06:34, Mark J. Blair wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>No, I'm not complaining about intermittent connectivity with PyDECnet; I'm asking if it's possible!</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I don't have persistent Internet connectivity or a fixed IP address at my just-barely-rural home. When my home network is connected to the Internet, it's tethered over my cell phone. And even then, my cell service is spotty. I could possibly resume using a separate hotspot at home rather than my regular cell phone, but even when I was doing that, my connectivity wasn't great. Cell service in my neighborhood isn't very good via either AT&T or Verizon, and wired connectivity is not available.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Would any of the DECnet routing mechanisms supported by PyDECnet possibly be suitable for intermittent connection of my home network, with a small number of DECnet nodes, to HECnet? Or am I just going to have to remain a HECnet spectator until I manage to obtain better Internet connectivity?</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>Yes. It is possible. If you use TCP as the transport, it can work with you having only intermittent connectivity, and different addresses.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Paul Koning will have to tell if PyDECnet can also act as a listener from some arbitrary remote system. But with RSX I can definitely do that. So if nothing else, you can always set it up so that you connect your PyDECnet to an RSX host...</span><br><span></span><br><span> Johnny</span><br><span></span><br><span>-- </span><br><span>Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus</span><br><span> || on a psychedelic trip</span><br><span>email: <a href="mailto:bqt@softjar.se">bqt@softjar.se</a> || Reading murder books</span><br><span>pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol</span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>