[HECnet] SIMH experience?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2020-02-25 05:12, Robert Armstrong wrote:
>>   GRE and Johnny's bridge software are two good options.
> 
>    The problem with Johnny's bridge is that it turns everything into a giant
> Ethernet segment.  Everybody appears to be adjacent to everybody else.
> That's not realistic and doesn't scale well.

The biggest problem with it is scaling, and that I have not implemented 
anything like STP.
Apart from that, it usually works very well, covering about half of the 
earth.

>    GRE is a non-starter unless you have a Cisco router.
> 
>    If you don't like Multinet, write something better.  Make sure it works on
> a VAX...

Which is a big problem. Most people do not even have the information 
needed to write something that would hook into DECnet this way.

   Johnny

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