[HECnet] VAXELN Router on HECnet

[Robert Jarratt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hecnet at update.uu.se [mailto:owner-hecnet at update.uu.se]
> On Behalf Of Cory Smelosky
> Sent: 07 February 2016 22:44
> To: hecnet at update.uu.se
> Cc: johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk
> Subject: Re: [HECnet] VAXELN Router on HECnet
> 
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> 
> 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.
> 

You can, but I think you will find it just isn't quick enough. You could
build my ordinary code directly for the router's OS, which would work a bit
better. What is the OS?

Regards

Rob