[HECnet] Attaching to hecnet

[Johnny Billquist]

Brian Hechinger wrote:
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 12:10:31PM -0700, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Should I just use one area?   What's the best way to set that up?
Areas in DECnet are not really meant to be associated with physical   location, but rather with organizational. So keep it within one area.
Ok, sounds good to me.
For physically different locations, you might want to use level 1   routers, though. But as the internet nowadays is so fast, using just a   bridge, and pretend that it's all one ethernet segment also works just fine.
My upstream blows (as well as latency in general) so I'd like to avoid
putting any more traffic across it than is absolutely nessesary.

In that case you should definitely not use my bridge...

I suppose it's not a huge deal at this point since the SIMH instance at
the colo will be the only thing running most likely for a little while.
That being said, how should I set it up?   L1?   L2?   Does anyone want to
use me as a hub?

L1? L2? As in layers in the network stack?

Also, is there a list of what areas are already in use so I can pick an
unused one?

Already answered by others, I noticed... :-)

	Johnny