[HECnet] How do you connect to HECnet?

[Zane H. Healy]

At 10:44 PM -0500 3/1/09, Steve Davidson wrote:
Something that Zane mentioned suggested this question.   How are you
connecting to HECnet?

The following is how I was connecting until everything went into storage last September.

Pentium III running OpenBSD with two NIC's.   This is my firewall, and it runs the bridge.   I'd like to upgrade this soon to a low-power Mini-ITX system as the Pentium III system was getting flaky when I had to shut it down last September.

DEC VAXstation 4000 (I'm drawing a blank as to if it's a 60 or 90 since it's in storage, was a VLC till it developed PS issues) running VAX/VMS 5.5-2.   This is PDXVAX my DECnet Area router, and it also runs Multinet for a Multinet bridge to LEGATO.

My main VMS system is MONK which is a Compaq XP1000/667 running OpenVMS 8.3 with DECnet phase IV (was originally running Phase V).

Yes, the Multinet link provides a second connection into HECnet, Christine and I have been the sites routing between the two types of connections.   There were also one or two people using Cisco router links as well, but I don't know if anyone still has those links up.

Zane


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