[HECnet] Connections?

[Brian Hechinger]

I can and that would probably be my fall back option.

On Sun, Apr 29, 2018, 18:45 Steve Davidson <steve at davidson.net> wrote:

> Can you output "C"?
>
> -Steve Davidson
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Apr 29, 2018, at 15:48, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> >
> > I can't speak for anyone else, but I don't think I'd be interested in
> any kind of automation like that for my systems. I prefer to know
> explicitly what I have.
> >
> >  Johnny
> >
> >> On 2018-04-29 21:20, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> >> Would anyone be interested in some manner of automation for this
> similar to what I do for the cisco tunnels?
> >> Re-writing that in Go has been on my short list for a while now. Mayne
> now is the time to look to expanding it as well.
> >> One of the things I was going to add was a web front end so you can all
> manage your own endpoints.
> >> The bridge will be easy, I can write an agent that can run there to
> manage it as those are all unix boxes and so I should be able to generate
> binaries for that.
> >> Multinet may be a tad trickier since Go doesn’t generate binaries for
> VMS/RSX/etc so I may have to pick something else there. Not sure what I’d
> do.
> >> Thoughts?
> >> -brian
> >>> On Apr 29, 2018, at 1:54 PM, Steve Davidson <steve at davidson.net>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I can do eastern US like I did the bridge.  I have to finish the Tex
> build though...
> >>>
> >>> -Steve Davidson
> >>>
> >>> Sent from my iPhone
> >>>
> >>>> On Apr 29, 2018, at 12:23, Jeroen Brons <idiotoflinux at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> i''m Also in the Netherlands, but because of my ISP my IP isnt
> exactly static (although it stays the same most of the time...), and as
> it's running at home im willing to run  a bridge but i cannot guarantee
> uptime
> >>>>> Op 29 apr. 2018, om 18:19 heeft Hans Vlems <hvlems at zonnet.nl> het
> volgende geschreven:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Johnny
> >>>>>
> >>>>> My connection to Hecnet is thru your site with your bridge program.
> It runs on a Fedora (17) system that also hosts A44RTR.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> None of my systems run Multinet, and A44RTR runs VAX/VMS V7.3 and
> DECnet phase IV. It may be converted to run phase V if that would help you.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> My internet connection is ADSL2+ which translates to 11 Mb/s
> downstream and less than 400 kb/s upstream. Not bloody useful as a hub,
> then again Netherlands is not exactly in southern Europe.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hans
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Op 29 apr. 2018 om 17:52 heeft Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se>
> het volgende geschreven:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Guys. I figure I should try to get a more formalized handling of
> connections to HECnet.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> With my bridge, it's mostly just people connecting to me, but this
> is not a solution that scales very well, so in general I now try to
> discourage people from this option. When possible, I prefer to move people
> away from it.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Multinet on the other hand scales well. And is possible to use
> directly both in VMS and RSX. However, it is silly and inefficient if all
> multinet links are to go to me. So I'm thinking about identifying a few
> people/places elsewhere in the world, which can be used for connections
> where it makes more sense for a somewhat closer point of connection.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> So, I would go on dealing with Europe. Might at some point be that
> we'd like a second point in the south of Europe, but that is not a high
> priority right now.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> However, for the US, it would be nice if we could identify a
> location on each coast, which have a capable system, and normally is always
> online, and which have a good bandwidth, and would be willing to setup
> connections to new machines that want to come online.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> So, are there any takers? I'll continue to be the first point of
> contact when people come asking, but I'd be happy if I could redirect them
> to the appropriate person once we have figured out a few basic details.
> >>>>>> And then these two persons can work on establishing the actual link.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Johnny
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --
> >>>>>> 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
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >
> > --
> > 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
>
>
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