On 2012-06-28 15:57, Sampsa Laine wrote:
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.
I don't think that will work.
PMR is used to be able to forward traffic to a node, which you either do not know about, or else can't address (for example a Phase V address).
There needs to live a machine in the middle with connections both ways.
This means that you cannot have machines with conflicting node numbers available to that machine in the middle, but this is exactly what will happen with the italian network. :-(
Johnny
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