[HECnet] Hoping to join HECnet

[Keith Halewood]

Hi Johnny,

I understand the day job often spilling over into night too.
I managed to get Multinet 055 via the hobbyist licence but so far I've not managed to install it. It's a job for later on today I hope.
I'm located in west London, connected to the internet via symmetric VDSL2.
I'll personally never have 1023 nodes but if an area number is available then it'd be fun to have one. I have the resources to keep SIMH systems up, the bandwidth to offer a few other connections and, when I get it out of storage and fixed up, a real VAX 8650 :)

Hope that's enough,

Regards,

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Johnny Billquist
Sent: 23 June 2018 11:45
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] Hoping to join HECnet

Hi Keith.

On 2018-06-21 18:39, Keith Halewood wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I sent a message a while back to the 'responsible person' (as stated in the HECnet webpage) but have not received a response so I thought I'd try the list.
> Having recently rediscovered the delights of VMS(7.3 VAX architecture), the hobbyist programme and SIMH, etc. etc. I'd like to link into HECnet. Any help appreciated. I can do DDCMP-DMC (over UDP or TCP) or use the SIMH4.x built-in bridge.

Apologies if I missed something. Been very busy with work for a while now.
Anyway, I saw that Supratim offered a way to connect. How has this gone? 
Are you online yet, or still working on it?
Where are you located? It might be that Supratim is a good point for you to connect to, or we might want to find someone closer. Supratim is on the US east cost, unless my memory fails me.

As for node numbers, we might want to set aside a small range for you. 
So my first question would be if you need a small set of numbers within an existing area, or an area of your own? Area 1 is where Supratim is in, so if you connect through him we'd allocate some numbers in this area. But we first need to establish to where you connect, and some basic needs. And then we figure out the next bits.

   Johnny

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