[HECnet] VAXELN Router on HECnet

[Johnny Billquist]

This is really cool. I want to add information about this in my node 
database.
Care to give me a nodename, and some additional information?
(I have the hardware and OS, but version, and location maybe?)

	Johnny

On 2016-02-07 23:40, 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.
>
> Next steps will be to make it more efficient.
>
> Regards
>
> Rob
>

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