[HECnet] DECnet/Python

[Supratim Sanyal]

On 11/5/21 11:35 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> I have a list of people that I usually point to for connecting new 
> people.
>
> So I have a point in:
> London
> New York

"New York" is actually "Ashburn, VA", or greater "Washington, DC". 
@Brian is welcome to connect to me and Peter Lothberg (we both have VPS' 
in Ashburn with fat pipes) with a cost of 7, as backup links.

/s.



> 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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