[HECnet] intro

[Dave McGuire]

On 03/17/2012 04:30 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
As other have said - welcome.

  Thank you!

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.

The bridge program that I wrote does something more or less equivalent.
Most of HECnet is either using the bridge, or else DECnet over IP on VMS
running Multinet.

  Ok.   I could install Multinet on my DS10L, but I'm already running the DEC IP stack on there...not sure if I can remove that and then install Multinet, or if I'd have to reload the machine. (which would be fine, it's a relatively recent install and I don't have much on there yet)

I don't know the physical location of Steve Davidson, but I bet he can
tell, and help you get connected...

  Sounds good, I'll wait for him to pipe up.   Thanks!

                    -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA