[HECnet] DECnet over IP

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-01-20 16:05, Dennis Boone wrote:
>   > 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.

Huh? Where did I say that??? I am in fact very fond of 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).

Well, it is configurable, as far as I gathered. But the default is 700.
But if you are accepting connections from multiple sites using TCP, you 
all accept them all at the same local port, or different ones, or is it 
selectable?

For UDP it's a different story, and my current implementation always 
assume they will all use the same UDP port.

	Johnny

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