[HECnet] Adjacency With Node 19.41 Bouncing

[Paul_Koning at Dell.com]

On Jun 25, 2013, at 7:19 PM, Bob Armstrong wrote:

link to GORVAX, but the IP address I'm using seems to be dead... 

Same here - the Multinet link to GORVAX hasn't worked for a while.

Multinet (over UDP) is such a fundamentally broken idea that it would be a *really* good idea to get rid of it.   Every other option is vastly superior.   GRE is a good one because it emulates a datagram datalink (Ethernet) over a datagram transport (IP).   SIMH DMC-11 emulation is good because it emulation a connection oriented datalink (DDCMP) over a connection transport (TCP).   Conversely, Multinet runs a connectionless transport to carry DECnet point to point traffic, in gross violation of most of the datalink requirements.   So it only just barely works part of the time, and it can't possibly ever work any better.

	paul