[HECnet] DECnet User Mode Router - Encapsulation Formats

[Paul_Koning at Dell.com]

On Jun 22, 2012, at 3:28 PM, Rob Jarratt wrote:

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Subject: Re: [HECnet] DECnet User Mode Router - Encapsulation Formats

Are you planning to have it speak unencapsulated, too?   That would be nice
for talking to real DECnet nodes.

paul

On Jun 22, 2012, at 2:31 PM, Rob Jarratt wrote:


I am making a little progress on a user mode DECnet router that will run
on
Raspberry Pi and on Windows. There is still a long way to go, but I want
to
get the basic design right in terms on the network interfacing. Can
someone
tell me how Cisco and Multinet encapsulate DECnet packets sent over the
internet?


Thanks

Rob

Yes, that should be the simplest one. For that I am assuming that the router
would be connected directly to the Ethernet segment, not missing anything am
I?

Regards

Rob


Right, that's what I had in mind.   An Ethernet segment with a PDP11 on it along with your creation.

Extra credit would be support of point to point links... which I could actually use, since my current PDP11 speaks DDCMP but not yet Ethernet (no driver for its NIC yet).   That's off the wall enough that I wouldn't expect you to do it, but I would probably take it on as an additional feature.

	paul