[HECnet] Talking of other possible protocols

Steve Davidson jeep at scshome.net
Wed Nov 11 07:48:12 PST 2009


In past I have used LAT (from NH, USA) to connect to CHIMPY (London, UK) and MIM.   Johnny's bridge program is running on a NetBSD system between my DEClab LAN and MIM on the other end.   It works just fine!

-Steve



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE on behalf of Sampsa Laine
Sent: Tue 11/10/2009 10:23
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] Talking of other possible protocols

But Johnny's bridge does however support bridging it so in practice it   
can be used for long distance connections on HECnet...

Sampsa


On 10 Nov 2009, at 15:21, Paul Koning wrote:

Yes, LAT is a layer 2 protocol so it's not routable, and its timers   
and delay assumptions are for LANs, not for long distance networks.

	paul

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On
Behalf Of Mark Wickens
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 10:19 AM
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: [HECnet] Talking of other possible protocols

Am I right in thinking that LAT is only suitable for the local   
network?
I just tried

Local> connect pdxvax

from the DECserver 90M just for a laugh.

Regards, Mark.



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