[HECnet] LEGATO?

[Jordi Guillaumes i Pons]

> El 12 oct 2015, a les 15:35, Robert Armstrong <bob at jfcl.com> va escriure:
> 
>> Nothing a little raspberry pi couldn't handle ... ;)
> 
>  As it happens, I already have an Ubuntu server here that, among other
> things, runs exim4 and serves as a mail forwarder for all the other machines
> in the house.  It handles the TLS connection with my ISP's forwarder.
> 
>  Why not just make the VAX forward to that machine?  'cause LEGATO isn't a
> real machine anymore - it's just a simh emulation, and one of the "among
> other things" this server does is to run that simulation.  A limitation of
> the simh Ethernet implementation is that it can't talk to itself, so the
> TCP/IP on the simulated VAX can't talk to the host it's running on. 

You can talk to the host network stack if you use VDE. It has a small performance penalty, but it works.