[HECnet] "Poor mans routing" and the Italian Hobbyist DECNET

[Steve Davidson]

PMR works great with hidden areas!   If the Italian network went to a
hidden network,   then we could designate a router to deal with the
connection between the two of them.   In our current scheme they would
have to go to either area 63 (currently used for this kind of thing - on
a site-by-site basis) or free up area 62 and define max area to be
something less then whichever area number we chose.

-Steve 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE 
[mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Sampsa Laine
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 09:57
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: [HECnet] "Poor mans routing" and the Italian Hobbyist DECNET

Guys,

Do you think it would be possible to have a host that would 
somehow bridge HECnet with the Italian DECNET and then use 
the "poor mans routing" (i.e. HOST1::HOST2::<object) to pass 
e.g. mail across our two networks?

I have no idea how this works in practice, but just throwing 
the idea out there. From what I understood is that the 
Italians use many of the same nets / nodes as us (mainly 
network 1) which would make a network merger impractical.

Sampsa