[HECnet] Talking of other possible protocols

[Zane H. Healy]

Except that LAT is currently turned off on PDXVAX, you could try MONK and see what happens.

Zane



At 3:23 PM +0000 11/10/09, Sampsa Laine wrote:
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-----
Behalf Of Mark Wickens

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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