[HECnet] VAXELN Router on HECnet

[Cory Smelosky]

On Sun, 7 Feb 2016, Robert Jarratt wrote:

> Just wanted to let people know that I have ported my user mode router on to
> VAXELN, running on an rtVAX 1000 (KA620), and it is up on HECnet.
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> There are some compromises, and it is pretty slow at the moment, with
> adjacencies dropping from time to time, but if you see a router at 5.30 then
> it is VAXELN.
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> Right now it is running on the real hardware, but as that is noisy and uses
> 155W of power then it won't be around very often. For development purposes I
> also run it on SIMH where it is a bit quicker, but that will also be
> intermittent. The machine is diskless and has only one Ethernet adapter, so
> it is running raw packets on the LAN and talking to Johnny's bridge using
> UDP, it is acting as my router to HECnet. You should be able to reach nodes
> at 5.11, 5.99 and 5.100, but it *will* be slow.
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Can I get disk images of what you're running in SIMH?

I need something lightweight I can throw on my MIPS router so I can be on 
HECnet again post-move.

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> Next steps will be to make it more efficient.
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> Regards
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> Rob
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