[HECnet] Hello from New Zealand

[David Moylan]

Hi John,


you have addresses allocated in Bob's area 2.XXX which means you can only have a connection across to Bob. if you want to run multiple connections to multiple other area routers, you would need to be running your own area.


if you are in a situation where the machine running your multinet connection may be up/down and this affects your connectivity then my recommendation would be to setup a machine running pyDECnet.


if you have bigger plans to run as a hub for NZ and may have other people interested in hooking up to you then I would speak to Johnny and see if he is able to allocate you an area. you could then establish multiple GRE tunnels via your Cisco router, or setup a dedicated pyDECnet machine which then gives you the flexibility to run both GRE and Multinet both upstream and downstream.


cheers, Wiz!!


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Subject: Re: [HECnet] Hello from New Zealand

On 8/1/20 5:53 PM, John Yaldwyn wrote:
> On the subject of Cisco (and hijacking my own thread) ...
>
> While I joined the HECnet with a connection via Bob Armstrong using the MultiNet software, I'm on the lookout for another connection using Cisco for some more machines.
>
> I'm particularly interested in Cisco networking and I'd like to explore a DECnet over GRE connection implementation.
>
> This would also have the advantage of keeping routing through the always-on Cisco box and avoid MultiNet which would not be an option for my PDP-11/24 restoration project.
>
> Looking at Paul's wonder map for hardware Ciscos my options might be a connection perhaps via Dave or Ian McLaughlin?

   I hit "send" before my brain was fully engaged.  We can set it up
manually if you're hot to do it before Brian can get to it; let me know.

   It's nice to hear of another 11/24.  Those are really nice machines;
I have one that was at LSSM for awhile and now it's here in my lab.  I
have the CIS option in it, and I have an FPF-11 that I will add the next
time I have the machine open.

             -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
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