[HECnet] LAT question

[Steve Davidson]

Actually, for this short duration, who cares about a static address.   Fred and
I use dedicated VS4000/VLC's as Multinet tunnel routers.   We reboot as
necessary and ignore everyone's complaints.   SG1 actually has a script that
deals with some of this automatically.   If I have time today I may even finish
it.   It deals with the burden of changing the address entry in Multinet and
reboots.   Total turn-around is under 5 minutes, actually more like 3 minutes.

I noticed that Johnny has made changes to the bridge.   I do not have these
changes.   My version is different than his to begin with.   Fred and I run
my version but it could probably use Johnny's fixes.   I'm now wondering if
some of the "surprises" we have been running into have to do with these
"fixes".   Do either of you know?   I have not approached Johnny about getting
these changes.

-Steve



Yup, that's correct.

Now we will need a static IP to make this work, unless we set up my   
end on a Linux box - the MULTINET Linux port knows how to look up   
hostnames, the original VMS one needs a static IP.

Steve is right about the bridge and LAT however, we COULD set up the   
bridge as a backup and try the MULTINET tunnel as a primary method of   
connection.

Sampsa


On 13 Jun 2010, at 07:50, Mark Wickens wrote:

I've been talking to Steve Davidson and it crossed my mind that if we
use multinet to connect we won't need a separate unix box as we   
wouldn't
require Johnny's bridge. Is that correct? Might be worth going through
the motions if you have time, (a) to get the process documented and   
(b)
to provide a good fallback strategy if option 1 using the bridge to
connect through to you doesn't work.

Regards, Mark.