[HECnet] HECPAC

[Mark Abene]

Yes, this is purely for nostalgic reasons.   It's great having an
actual X.25 network again after so long.   The routing and PAD access
is accomplished on emulated Ciscos (using dynamips/dynagen).   DECnet
Phase V/Plus/OSI is unfortunately needed by VMS in order to support
the X.25 protocol itself.   However "xotd" will work on any linux
system, provided you mod a network listener daemon to bind to address
family X25 (I modded telnetd as a simple test) so you have something
to connect to.
And if anyone knows where I might find an old tape installer image of
PSI for TOPS-20, let me know.   :)

-Mark


On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 4:02 AM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
(Johnny - sorry for the plagiarised name, just thought it fit)

So Mark Abene and me (well 99% Mark Abene) has managed to get a working X.25-over-IP setup going. We can currently connect Linux systems and VMS boxes, but unfortunately they have to be running DECNET Phase V..

In any case, it's a fun toy, I don't think it's actually useful in any sane sense but I quite like the idea of having my own X.25 network..

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