[HECnet] Attaching to hecnet

[Zane H. Healy]

At 2:03 PM -0700 6/27/10, Johnny Billquist wrote:
DECnet+ over IP: I have no idea if it is doable, but if it is, feel free. HECnet as such is totally connection-agnostic. Anything that works is acceptable. My experience (both from myself, and others) is that DECnet+ is more of an headache than a win, but that's more from an adminitrative point of view. Technically, it works just fine.
I'm uncertain if DECnet+ can act as an area router though, so you might need to have atleast one DECnet node, in order to have your own area.

One quick comment on this based on my own findings.   DECnet-Plus isn't able to connect, or at least reliably connect to all OS's that can potentially be on HECnet.   I forget what all OS's I was having issues with, I know one was RSTS/E v10.1, but I want to say it also included VAX/VMS.   Once I *upgraded* my Alpha running OpenVMS to DECnet Phase IV, all these issues went away.   These were things as simple as SET HOST.

Unfortunately, it's been several years, and I don't remember the specifics.   Also, I've never had Tru-64 running DECnet as far as I can remember (it's been about 12 years since I ran it).

Zane



-- 
| Zane H. Healy                                       | UNIX Systems Administrator |
| healyzh at aracnet.com                           | OpenVMS Enthusiast                 |
|                                                                   | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
|         Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing,       |
|                   PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum.                 |
|                               http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/                             |