<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr">Bob's right. The machine with MultiNet doesn't have an appropriate routing license but I'm actively looking at another old VAX to see what might be recovered.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">By the way I've had no response to my OpenVMS Hobbyist license requests sent some two weeks ago. I used a couple of different email addresses in case one was somehow blocked. While I received an automated response in each case, nothing has happened since.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Bob, while I do run two Centos servers to support the New Zealand DMR MARC and IPSC2 DMR+ international ham DMR repeater networks, my Linux knowledge is pretty rudimentary! These are real servers in server room at my work as that was an easier thing to manage (for me at least) than something virtualised.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Given my work with Cisco on pretty much a daily basis it has become my platform of choice for routing and switching tasks and I'm impressed that IOS supports DECnet.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Other options are possible but with routers already installed and running, expanding the config to add HECnet avoids more hardware.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Cheers, John</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 2/08/2020, at 11:40, Robert Armstrong <bob@jfcl.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><div><div id="x_divtagdefaultwrapper"><p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">if you are in a situation where the machine running your multinet connection</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">may be up/down and this affects your connectivity then my recommendation</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> would be to setup a machine running pyDECnet.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> John’s biggest problem is that he doesn’t have a DVNETRTG license; he only has an end node. That means the machine running Multinet can’t also talk over the Ethernet to his other machines at the same time. pyDECnet would also solve the problem, but he’s running Windows and doesn’t have any Linux machines.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Bob<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>