[HECnet] Connections?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2018-05-04 15:10, Robert Armstrong wrote:
>> It's just plain simple point-to-point links.
> 
>    So you must have a DECnet point-to-point device driver that somehow can emulate multiple circuits with on instance of the driver.  How do you do that?

I think you're making it too complicated in your head.

>    That's the limitation on the VMS implementation - each instance of the device driver is one circuit.  If you have a new remote node you need a new circuit, a new instance of the driver, and hence a different port.  You can't have two separate instances of the driver listening on the same port.

Each instance of the device is one circuit for me too. It's just that I 
can have several instances listening on the same port.

   Johnny

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