[HECnet] DECnet Area Router question

[Johnny Billquist]

Zane H. Healy wrote:
Am I remembering correctly that in order to have a DECnet Phase IV area
router you need to be running a VAX?
Can Phase V act as an area router?
I'm contemplating figuring out what Alpha has the lowest power requirements,
and bringing it online in place of MONK (a very power hungry XP1000 with
plenty of external drives).
Then again a VAX would probably pull even less.   Believe it or not, the
"killer app" that I'm having a hard time living without is DEC Document.

Correct. Only VAX support Area routing. Alphas support level 1 routing
only. And unless I misremember, the same applies to Phase V. Level 1
routing only.

That said, I don't know if there might be some magic trick to get an
Alpha to do area routing anyway, even though it's not supported...

	Johnny

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