<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">You can look at the map (<a href="http://akdesign.dyndns.org:8080/map" class="">http://akdesign.dyndns.org:8080/map</a>). Physicallly closest may not be the best answer -- closest to the rest of the net is also interesting -- but both of those should be visible on the map. You can turn off Level 1 nodes and links to see the area routing backbone only, that's probably the best resource to answer your question.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>paul</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 5, 2021, at 5:04 AM, Brian Hechinger <<a href="mailto:wonko@4amlunch.net" class="">wonko@4amlunch.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Yeah, I'm ready to fire up PyDECnet in preparation of getting a couple simh instances going. Who'd going to be my closest router?<br class=""><br class="">-brian<br class=""><br class="">On 27/10/21 17:04, Johnny Billquist wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I'd probably point at someone in the UK. Let me know if we should start sorting this out.<br class=""><br class=""> Johnny<br class=""><br class="">On 2021-10-27 17:05, Brian Hechinger wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">...<br class="">For the others, Paul pretty much summed it up. In addition, it should probably be mentioned that Multinet over TCP or UDP is possible inside VMS and RSX (as well as with PyDECnet). DDCMP over TCP or UDP is possible with PyDECnet (actually, I could probably add that in RSX as well), while GRE is mainly for Cisco, but I think PyDECnet also can do that one?<br class=""><br class="">So choices are somewhat dependent on what system/software you are using.<br class=""></blockquote>Yes, PyDECnet supports: real Ethernet, Ethernet bridging over UDP, GRE, Multinet over TCP (and UDP but don't), DDCMP over TCP, UDP, simulated async connections including Telnet, real async connections, and sync connections via my DDCMP framer device. In other words, most of the datalinks DECnet has ever supported. Missing are 802.5 token ring, HDLC, X.25, and PCL, I think that's about it. Some day I'll think about 802.5 support not so much for that but because it would enable DECnet over WiFi.<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">I was intending on running PyDECnet. I'm in southern Portugal. Not sure who's closest to me.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">-brian<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>