[HECnet] Connections?

[Johnny Billquist]

On that topic, why would you be generating code? It's just a config file 
that needs changing, and then a signal sent to the process. (For the 
bridge).

For multinet, it essentially would be a couple of configuration commands 
under VMS or RSX. I don't get the "output 'C'" comment at all.

   Johnny

On 2018-04-30 01:02, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> I can and that would probably be my fall back option.
> 
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2018, 18:45 Steve Davidson <steve at davidson.net 
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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 <mailto: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
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>      >>>>>> email: bqt at softjar.se <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>           
>       ||  Reading murder books
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>     B. Idol
>      >>>>>
>      >>>>
>      >>>
>      >
>      > --
>      > Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
>      >                                  ||  on a psychedelic trip
>      > email: bqt at softjar.se <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>             || 
>     Reading murder books
>      > pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
> 

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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