[HECnet] Hello from New Zealand

[John Yaldwyn]

Thanks for the suggestions Wiz and yes I'd be happy to route connections for others in NZ. So far I am only aware of one other DEC enthusiast that might be interested but I've not talked about HECnet to others yet.

I'm very happy with the connection to Bob, it's working well and the host machine is comfortably housed in my work server room. While it is an end node only, I can VPN to that machine from anywhere (via Cisco of course) for console access.

The number of free HECnet areas looks a bit limited and I don't want to request a whole area for the limited interest here so far. We'll have to see how things go though.

John


> On 2/08/2020, at 11:35, David Moylan <djm at wiz.net.au> wrote:
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> Hi John,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> cheers, Wiz!!
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> From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE <owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE> on behalf of Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>
> Sent: Sunday, 2 August 2020 8:10:41 AM
> To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
> 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.
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>    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
> 
> -- 
> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> New Kensington, PA
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