[HECnet] Connections?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2018-05-02 22:09, Zane Healy wrote:
> 
>> On Apr 29, 2018, at 8:52 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
> 
> I’m not quite ready, but I’m headed in the direction of being able to do this, and I’m on a 50Mbit commercial line.  Today PDXVAX is a VAXstation 4000/60.  I’ve been planning to migrate it to SIMH running on a RPi3+.  Once it is migrated, I can keep it online during the summer (which I can’t today).  I just need to figure out how I want to image the drive.  I run your bridge on my Firewall, and I have MultiNet running on PDXVAX, but I don’t think the Multinet link is active anymore.
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> My primary issue is finding time to work on this.  I’m still trying to get my primary VMS system migrated to a SIMH cluster (since the primary is a Compaq XP1000/667, not everything can move).

Time is a resource generally in short supply. :-)

But I'm almost a bit surprised that noone have really stepped up with 
multinet links in the US. Is there really noone with the resources and 
ability to connect potential new people?

   Johnny

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