[HECnet] DECnet et al

[hvlems at zonnet.nl]

It's the return path I'm worried about.

Say your area has just endnodes. My area has at least one L1 router up and running. How does a node in my area return the traffic since its router won't have a path towards your area. If mu area contains an L2 router then I think it will return an error like "destination area unreachable". 

So, yes Johnny's bridge program makes HECnet behave like we're running DECnet (and LAT) on a large flat LAN. But the rules must observed by all: either we're running routers or neither of us do. 
At least that's how I read Paul's messages. 
Hans
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Onderwerp: RE: [HECnet] DECnet et al
Verzonden: 17 juli 2011 19:24

Bob, endnodes in different areas can only talk to each other
if there's no router present. So your scheme only works if
all of us shut down all our L1 and L2 routers. 

  We don't have to shut down all the routers on HECnet, right?   Just
shutting down the router for my area (or the area of anyone else who cares
about the issue) would be sufficient.

Once an endnode sees a router in its area ...

  Exactly...   If there are no routers in the end node's area, then
communications is direct.   Routers for other areas are moot.

Bob



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