[HECnet] VAXELN Router on HECnet

[Robert Jarratt]

So I have just called it RTVAX. It is running VAXELN 4.6 and it is in the
UK.

Regards

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-
> hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Johnny Billquist
> Sent: 08 February 2016 13:09
> To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
> Cc: johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk
> Subject: Re: [HECnet] VAXELN Router on HECnet
> 
> 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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