[HECnet] DECnet Phase IV through Linux GRE Tunnel?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2018-01-07 01:17, Supratim Sanyal wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> 
>  > Since I want to keep my local DECnet traffic local, my current goal 
> is to set up a VAX/OpenVMS simulation under SIMH to act as a DECnet area 
> router (and provide other services to my real VAXen, too).
> 
> My approach was to compile SIMH with VDE support, and then use VDE as 
> the primary DECnet-only switch connecting nine DECnet nodes in my 
> basement in Washington, DC to a 10th node (CLOUDY) on a VPS in 
> Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. It works great, VDE basically provides 
> ethernet ports on the same switch no matter where the ports 
> geographically are; the virtual ethernet switch extends over SSL, hence 
> it is pretty secure too.
> 
> If the host machine of MIM had VDE installed and shared the public key 
> with us, we could, in theory, connect all our simulated DECnet nodes to 
> MIM:: without using Multinet or Johnny's bridge etc.

We could, in theory, connect them all using the bridge as well. But it's 
not a good idea. DECnet does not scale well in that way.

Security is not the biggest issue.

   Johnny

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