[HECnet] DECnet Phase IV through Linux GRE Tunnel?

[Supratim Sanyal]

On 1/6/2018 20:20, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> 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.

True that. I know first-hand what a mess packets looping back over 
ethernet can be.

Still, Mark could patch in all simulated nodes and bridge in all 
physical nodes to a VDE switch for local DECnet traffic, and use a 
router SIMH node for Multineting to MIM ...