[HECnet] Area configuration

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2011-07-16 00.30, Mark Wickens wrote:
The VAX isn't turned on. I can turn it on and try this, but I would
expect the connection to then succeed.

Yes, that probably would make it succeed.

What I'd really like to be able to do is have both Alpha and VAX
configured to act as area routers, so that I can have either switched on
independently, and not have them rely on each other.

So, why not do that.

There may be an unlikely situation where both are switched on at the
same time, is it an unsupported configuration to have two area routers
enabled at the same time?

No. That is perfectly legal. And you don't really need to do anything special. The machines will figure it out themself. All you need is to just enable area routing on both.

I'm presuming setting a box up as an area router requires a sequence of
NCP commands?

There is some command, yes. Something like SET EXEC TYPE, or something like that.

However, the one thing you should be aware of is that DEC never officially supported Alpha machines as area routers. But I seem to remember hearing someone saying that it actually worked anyway. But you need to test, I guess...

	Johnny


Thanks for the help, Mark


On Fri, 15 Jul 2011, hvlems at zonnet.nl wrote:

You always need one area router to connect to nodes outside your area.
With one exception: on a lan with no decnet routers present, nodes can
connect irrespective what area tjey're in.
So you need the bridge program AND an area router for yet another
decnet node to see all the others.
If your vax is the area router (try mc ncp sho exeec char) does the
alpha connect to the vax?
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Verzonden: 16 juli 2011 00:12

Hi, SteveD is the best person to answer this question, but I'm not sure
whether he's about at the moment.

I'm in my own area, area 4, and I normally run a VAX, BUBBLE which I
believe does area routing.

I'm setting up an Alpha system, but am currently unable to see any other
areas via hecnet. For the most part, either the Alpha or VAX will be
running, but not both.

Do I need to setup the Alpha as an area router also?

Thanks for the help, Mark.

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