[HECnet] Connections?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2018-05-04 23:24, Supratim Sanyal wrote:
> Hi Johnny,
> 
> 
> On 5/2/18 6:15 PM, Supratim Sanyal wrote:
> 
>> On 5/2/18 5:50 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>
>>> Sumpratim, an area router is just a more capable DECnet router. It 
>>> has to be either a PDP-11 or a VAX. Alpha's does/did not support area 
>>> routing.
>>> Obviously other gear like Ciscos can also act as area routers.
>>>
>>> There are various rules on what is connected to what when it comes to 
>>> the various routing domains in DECnet.
>>>
>>> Once you have an area router then yes, any number (well, up to 63) is 
>>> supported. There are no other limitations.
>>>
>>> Essentially, area routing isn't anh more complicated that routing 
>>> within the area. As an admin, you don't really have to do much of 
>>> anything.
>>>
>>> But it's good if you have some bandwidth, a fixed address, and are 
>>> generally online.
>>>
>>>   Johnny
>>>
>> OK, I am willing to give this a shot. Let me think a bit more about 
>> the specifics, I will contact you soon.
>>
> 
> I have made some progress. IMPVAX is now running on a VPS with a 
> dedicated static IP address and plenty of bandwidth. It is configured as 
> an Area router (Level 2) and connected to MIM via MULTINET. It is 
> communicating successfully with my other nodes at home via a VDE uplink.

Ok. Good.

> Next steps: (1) configure your bridge.c on the VPS and try to connect to 
> it from home instead of VDE (2) configure MULTINET server (3) configure 
> GRE endpoint.

Uh...
1: Why?
2: I thought you said you already had multinet up and running.
3: For what?

All I'm looking for is someone with HECnet connection on the east coast, 
willing to have others connect to him using Multinet, and that's it. 
Couldn't be simpler.

   Johnny

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