[HECnet] Multinet alternatives ...

[Keith Halewood]

I have pydecnet running on raspberry pi 3b+
under raspbian with the bridge and tap support added. It does the job.

Keith

> On 25 Feb 2020, at 15:55, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>> On Feb 25, 2020, at 10:40 AM, Robert Armstrong <bob at jfcl.com> wrote:
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Paul Koning
>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 6:53 AM
>>> To: hecnet at update.uu.se
>>> Subject: Re: [HECnet] Multinet alternatives ...
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>>>> Paul Koning [paulkoning at comcast.net] wrote:
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>>> There was, but I think Python recently dropped VMS support due to lack of a maintainer.
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>> Dropped VMS or dropped VAX?  There was a Python for AXP (although I don't know if it's still supported) but I don't think there was for VAX.
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>> How do people who use your router typically run it?  Do they run it on Linux?  
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> Linux or Mac, including at least one example on Linux on a z/390, and another on Beaglebone Black.  But the point of the exercise was to create code that would run, unchanged, on anything that supports Python.  For example, while I avoid Windows if at all possible, it certainly should run there without trouble.  Or NetBSD, to pick just one other random example.
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>>> TOPS-10 is Phase IV, right?  Any of the common DECnet implementations should talk to that.
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>> TOPS-10 v7.04 (or maybe 7.05) is Phase IV.  That's good news - I've wanted to set up a TOPS-10 simulation, but running a simh780 just to route DECnet for the DMR on TOPS-10 was not attractive.
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>> I'd rather have TOPS-20 but as you say TOPS-20 on simh with networking is not very practical.
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> It does work well enough that I was able use it to verify Phase II support.  I plan to add intercept support for talking to non-adjacent nodes, but that isn't in yet.  A primitive version is easy, a proper version is quite a lot harder.
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>    paul
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