[HECnet] Multinet Tunnel Connections to SG1::

[Johnny Billquist]

By the way, as a warning...
I seem to remember that DECnet support now have been dropped from Linux. So it might not be in there anymore, if you look at recent versions.

I've also had less than stellar results from trying to talk from Linux to RSX. So it might not work absolutely right under all conditions. Developers mostly (it not only) had VMS machines to test against...

	Johnny

On 2012-06-07 00:07, Rob Jarratt wrote:
I reckon it could be done with a single interface.

Will take a look at the specs, a raspberry pi DECnet router would be great!

Regards

Rob

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From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-
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Sent: 06 June 2012 22:41
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Subject: Re: [HECnet] Multinet Tunnel Connections to SG1::


On 6 Jun 2012, at 22:37,<Paul_Koning at Dell.com>   wrote:


On Jun 6, 2012, at 5:34 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:

On 2012-06-06 22:40, Rob Jarratt wrote:
...
It would be a fun exercise to turn the bridge into an actual DECnet
router.
One day, when I have a lot of time I might even think about trying
that.

Feel free. The specifications are out there, so it's definitely not an
impossible task. But I guess it will take some work. It would be very nice
if the
bridge did turn into a WAN router...

	Johnny

DECnet Phase IV is pretty straightforward.   The specs are all out there.
And
much of it is implemented in Linux, so you can find C sources ready to
go...
Even if sample code only does L1 routing, you're nearly there because area
routing is essentially the same thing done a second time on a second set
of
tables.

There may be mileage in building dedicated DECnet bridges/routers using
RaspberryPi boards in a suitable case running a very cut-down Linux with
an
advanced version of the bridge? I am no programming wizard but I am good
at compiling and testing stuff.

Would it require 2 Ethernet interfaces to work or would (like the bridge)
just
one work okay?


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