[HECnet] DEC Legacy 2015, Windermere UK, April 11/12th is just around the corner!

[Paul_Koning at Dell.com]

On Mar 8, 2015, at 2:07 PM, <Paul_Koning at Dell.com> <Paul_Koning at Dell.com> wrote:

On Mar 8, 2015, at 8:46 AM, Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk> wrote:
Hi Rob

Maybe you can add some info on your router at some point in the presentation?  

BTW I meant to ask does it work under Windows?  
I don't know about the python version - can you give me any more details please?

That   s mine.   It   s not finished, but it   s doing basic router work at this point.   I intend to add the layers above, so, for example, it will eventually support NICE.   That means doing NSP, and that is so far just a few bits and pieces.

It   s written in Python 3, as a fairly straightforward implementation of what the architecture specs say.   Phase II, III, and IV.  

That probably wasn   t clear.   I meant two things: (a) it should talk to II, III, and IV nodes, and (b) it can be a II, III, or IV node.   As a IV node, it is slightly odd in that it will accept phase II neighbors, which typical DECnet implementations will do if they are Phase III but not phase IV.   But that   s really just because the spec doesn   t describe how; it   s fairly obvious how to make it work.

paul