[HECnet] Hello from New Zealand

[John Yaldwyn]

Bob's right. The machine with MultiNet doesn't have an appropriate routing license but I'm actively looking at another old VAX to see what might be recovered.

By the way I've had no response to my OpenVMS Hobbyist license requests sent some two weeks ago. I used a couple of different email addresses in case one was somehow blocked. While I received an automated response in each case, nothing has happened since.

Bob, while I do run two Centos servers to support the New Zealand DMR MARC and IPSC2 DMR+ international ham DMR repeater networks, my Linux knowledge is pretty rudimentary! These are real servers  in server room at my work as that was an easier thing to manage (for me at least) than something virtualised.

Given my work with Cisco on pretty much a daily basis it has become my platform of choice for routing and switching tasks and I'm impressed that IOS supports DECnet.

Other options are possible but with routers already installed and running, expanding the config to add HECnet avoids more hardware.

Cheers, John

>> On 2/08/2020, at 11:40, Robert Armstrong <bob at jfcl.com> wrote:
> 
> >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.
>  
>   John’s biggest problem is that he doesn’t have a DVNETRTG license; he only has an end node.  That means the machine running Multinet can’t also talk over the Ethernet to his other machines at the same time.   pyDECnet would also solve the problem, but he’s running Windows and doesn’t have any Linux machines.
>  
> Bob
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