[HECnet] Connections?

[Zane Healy]

> On May 2, 2018, at 1:49 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 
> On 2018-05-02 22:09, Zane Healy wrote:
>>> On Apr 29, 2018, at 8:52 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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.
>> 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.
>> 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

I’m able to support it, but until I migrate off the VAXstation, I can’t guarantee uptime.  If it gets too hot, the system has to be shutdown.  It might be spring, but we’re already seeing disturbingly hot days.

Zane