[HECnet] Hecnet Peering

[Dave McGuire]

On 01/02/2015 07:58 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
It does scale better.   However, it is possible to bridge LAT and/or MOP
over the link also.

Ah. Cool. I wasn't sure if it would also bridge other protocols, since
these are not related to DECnet as such.

    One can tunnel most anything over GRE, even raw Ethernet frames,
regardless of the higher-level protocols.   Hence the 'G' for "Generic".

Yes. But you need some ingress and egress that makes use of it. Or else
we could just as well argue that UDP can tunnel anything.

  ...which it can. ;)   On a Cisco, assigning a DECnet cost to an
interface (and a GRE endpoint is a pseudo-interface on a Cisco) forms
that ingress/egress.

  (I know YOU know this; I'm saying it for the benefit of those here who
are just learning about this)

                        -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ/3
New Kensington, PA