[HECnet] DECnet over IP

Dennis Boone drb at msu.edu
Wed Jan 20 07:05:41 PST 2016


 > Sadly, noone seems to be interested in setting up Multinet link. Apart 
 > from the one to LEGATO, not a single one have been set up from MIM so 
 > far. I was hoping for at least SG1 as well.

I'll point out that you specified you wanted to convert existing bridge
connections, not just add redundant links.

 > I have a question on how Multinet on VMS works, though. When you have 
 > passive TCP connections, are they all sharing the same port number, or 
 > do you configure each with a different number? Right now I did it with 
 > separate port numbers under TCP for each connection, but for incoming 
 > connections, I could change the code to use a common port number.

Best I can tell, Multinet wants decnet-over-ip connections to originate
and terminate on the same port number (700, iirc).

De


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