[HECnet] Connections?

[Paul Koning]

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> On May 2, 2018, at 4:09 PM, Zane Healy <healyzh at avanthar.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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.

As a reminder: my Python DECnet implementation supports bridge connections, Multinet, GRE, SIMH DDCMP...  so it should be able to serve as a communication hub for this kind of application.  It would probably benefit from some additional testing.  I haven't touched it recently, but last I did it appeared to get all these cases right.  

It has basic monitoring (via http) though currently no configuration while running, only via a config script read at startup.

	paul