[HECnet] DECnet/Python

[Johnny Billquist]

I have a list of people that I usually point to for connecting new people.

So I have a point in:
London
New York
San Francisco
Russia
Colorado
Perth
(And me in Sweden)


If there are more that are willing to act as connection points, and have 
acceptable network connectivity, and is owning an area, feel free to let 
me know, and I'll add you to my list.

   Johnny

On 2021-11-05 16:08, Paul Koning wrote:
> You can look at the map (http://akdesign.dyndns.org:8080/map 
> <http://akdesign.dyndns.org:8080/map>).  Physicallly closest may not be 
> the best answer -- closest to the rest of the net is also interesting -- 
> but both of those should be visible on the map.  You can turn off Level 
> 1 nodes and links to see the area routing backbone only, that's probably 
> the best resource to answer your question.
> 
> paul
> 
> 
>> On Nov 5, 2021, at 5:04 AM, Brian Hechinger <wonko at 4amlunch.net 
>> <mailto:wonko at 4amlunch.net>> wrote:
>>
>> Yeah, I'm ready to fire up PyDECnet in preparation of getting a couple 
>> simh instances going. Who'd going to be my closest router?
>>
>> -brian
>>
>> On 27/10/21 17:04, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>> I'd probably point at someone in the UK. Let me know if we should 
>>> start sorting this out.
>>>
>>>   Johnny
>>>
>>> On 2021-10-27 17:05, Brian Hechinger wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> For the others, Paul pretty much summed it up. In addition, it 
>>>>>> should probably be mentioned that Multinet over TCP or UDP is 
>>>>>> possible inside VMS and RSX (as well as with PyDECnet). DDCMP over 
>>>>>> TCP or UDP is possible with PyDECnet (actually, I could probably 
>>>>>> add that in RSX as well), while GRE is mainly for Cisco, but I 
>>>>>> think PyDECnet also can do that one?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So choices are somewhat dependent on what system/software you are 
>>>>>> using.
>>>>> Yes, PyDECnet supports: real Ethernet, Ethernet bridging over UDP, 
>>>>> GRE, Multinet over TCP (and UDP but don't), DDCMP over TCP, UDP, 
>>>>> simulated async connections including Telnet, real async 
>>>>> connections, and sync connections via my DDCMP framer device.  In 
>>>>> other words, most of the datalinks DECnet has ever supported.  
>>>>> Missing are 802.5 token ring, HDLC, X.25, and PCL, I think that's 
>>>>> about it.  Some day I'll think about 802.5 support not so much for 
>>>>> that but because it would enable DECnet over WiFi.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I was intending on running PyDECnet. I'm in southern Portugal. Not 
>>>> sure who's closest to me.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -brian
>>>>
>>>
> 

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