[HECnet] Intermittent Connection with PyDECnet?

[John H. Reinhardt]

On 3/9/2020 11:47 AM, Mark J. Blair wrote:
> I made good progress yesterday on updating my home network setup. I changed my home router/NAT/DHCP/DNS box from FreeBSD to Debian 10.3 "Buster" for various reasons. It's routing and NATing and DHCPing and DNSing, and a simh VAX-11/785 running OpenVMS 7.3 on it can talk DECnet phase IV to another simh VAX-11/785 running on a BeagleBone Green (a small single-board computer) on my LAN. The emulation running on the router connects to a tap device, which is bridged to the physical ethernet interface for my LAN.
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Thanks for starting this Mark.  I've been meaning to set up some sort of DECnet router but this is a good push.  I have an Ubquiti EdgeRouter 4 as my firewall/router and I have a separate Raspberry Pi 3B+ as my DNS/DHCP/NTP/anything network service server.  I will probably make the Pi the DECnet router also since it's terribly under-utilized.

Thanks to Paul, too for writing the pyDECnet router.


John H. Reinhardt