[HECnet] VAXELN Router on HECnet

[Johnny Billquist]

Great. Added it. First VAXELN node registered.

	Johnny

On 2016-02-08 20:24, Robert Jarratt wrote:
> 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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>

-- 
Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
                                   ||  on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se             ||  Reading murder books
pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol