[HECnet] Italian DECnet...

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2013-04-24 00:26, Ian McLaughlin wrote:
Johnny

I like your suggestion of the same area on both sides. Do you have a candidate area number?   Do we have any Italian Decnet members here that are interested in this project?   Pointless if they don't want us :)

22 is the first "free" area we have...
But yes, before anything can be done, we do need the italians being interested.

	Johnny


Ian

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On 2013-04-23, at 3:19 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

On 2013-04-24 00:04, Ian McLaughlin wrote:
Yes, the Cisco can do area remapping.

Sweet.

We only need to remap at the single border point - everyone in HECnet will see them as one area and everyone in the Italian Decnet will see them as the other area.

Sounds like it should be doable. Yes, a single connection in between, where the remapping takes place. And then we should be set to go.

Interesting how to solve it, though. From the HECnet side, we just need to remap a chosen area that is designated for the italian network. The italian network needs to also do a remapping. Area 1 on HECnet needs to be mapped into some other area on their side. Possibly using the same area as is used for the italians on the HECnet side.

And then, of course, the nodename database needs massaging from their point of view. Which might also be a fair piece of work...

      Johnny


Ian

On 2013-04-23, at 3:03 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

On 2013-04-24 00:01, Robert Jarratt wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-
hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Tim Sneddon
Sent: 23 April 2013 18:44
To: hecnet at update.uu.se
Subject: [HECnet] Italian DECnet...

Hi,

I know there had been discussion before about bringing these two together.
Although, I must admit that I didn't pay too much attention to what went on,
just that I don't think it happened. So, tell me to get lost if this has been
suggested or if nobody cares...

Now that we have Cisco routers and DECbrouters on the network, has
anyone considered connecting a GRE tunnel into their network and then
using the DECnet address translation gateway in IOS to map their network to
an area we allocate specifically for them. That way there is no merging as
such, just a bit of "gluing".

Regards, Tim.


If I had a spec for what is needed I could probably also implement what is needed for the user mode router I have written, it would give a little bit of flexibility too as the code is readily available.

Is the Italian HECnet all one area, or are there multiple areas?

As far as I can remember it's all in one area.

Can Cisco's do area remapping? If so, then let's do it, assuming the italians are interested and have some Cisco box.

      Johnny

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