[HECnet] Bridge vs tunnel

[Supratim Sanyal]

> On May 11, 2019, at 6:35 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 
>> On 2019-05-11 10:38, Hans Vlems wrote:
>> I’ve been running the bridge program for quite some time now and every time the tunnel topic pops up I  ask myself whether it would be better to move over as well.
>> I have a fixed public IP address, and have hecnet area 44 all for myself.
>> The bridge program and A44RTR (simh VAXserver 3900 VAX/VMS 6.1) run on an old laptop under fedora v 21.
>> What do I need, in terms of software, hardware, to move to a tunnel?
>> My Cisco knowledge dates back to the Cisco MGS router (IOS 7) :-)
> 
> You know, you could do it with Multinet, and not bother with the Cisco router as well...
> 
>  Johnny
> 

Hans,

This is my attempt at documenting what I did: http://supratim-sanyal.blogspot.com/2019/02/retro-networking-cisco-router-gre.html?m=1

As Johnny said, MULTINET with a hobbyist license is much easier: http://www.process.com/resources/openvms/hobbyist.html





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