[HECnet] intro

[Dave McGuire]

On 03/19/2012 11:48 AM, Brian Hechinger wrote:
As other have said - welcome.

Thank you!

I disagree. Away with you! :-D

  Bah!!

I looked at GRE several years ago, but could not make head or tails of
it for the requrements of DECnet, so I gave up on that.

Ok. I'm pretty sure Brian told me that some of the HECnet areas were
connected via GRE, but I (or he) may be mistaken. Either way, I know
Brian spent some time on it a few weeks ago but was looking for
someone to run some tests with. He seems to have disappeared (he does
that from time to time ;)) but when he comes up for air I can work on
that with him. If we can get it working, we'll share configs etc in
case anyone else needs that info.

No one uses GRE that I'm aware of. *I* am interested in it, however. :-D

  I could swear you said some people were using GRE..

Tomorrow is the last day at the current client (Nexus 1000v, SRM and
View!) who is annoyingly 3 hours from my house which has been making for
some long, long days. I'll have extra time coming up soon.

  I'm glad that one is drawing to a close!   Let me know when you're able to try some tunneling tests.   My 7206VXR is in the rack and permanently up now, but with no production traffic on it yet.   I'm hoping to move all the NAT and other stuff over to it soon, but I can do all the hacking I want on it for now, and reloads won't matter. ;)

  I'll type up some thoughts in a separate email.

                      -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA