13 Mar
2007
13 Mar
'07
1:55 p.m.
Andrew Back wrote:
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, arcarlini at iee.org wrote:
Check out what the Hobby Decnet bunch are doing.
http://www.update.uu.se/~bqt/hecnet.html
Andrew Back wrote:
Well it wouldn't be a replacement as such, but I was thinking of setting
up a L2 peer-to-peer network on top of said pesky network, so we folks
with VMS can run DECnet and the likes and use VMSmail and 'set host' etc.
I've set this up between my house and workshop using ethernet-over-ip via
two OpenBSD routers. And just recently discovered a Linux tool called
uvlan that looks like it would do a similar job and require much less
config.
I vote we dispense with both, set up an FTAM
responder, build an OSI
network, and bury this pesky Internet.
HEPNET was an OSI network at one point wasn't it?
DEC missed the boat on burying this pesky Internet (or at least
the TCP/IP on which it rests) so you'll have to just put
up with it for the forseeable future! The thing putting me off setting up some kind of
peering point is that I
only have ADSL connections. But then ye olde VAXen would have had 9.6K
links in places. Although I guess if literally bridging ethernet
between sites would need to be careful of broadcasts. I also need to
get to grips with OSI / DECnet Phase V area routing.
Would be nice to be able to play around with this stuff though, and
properly use the X.400 MTA & X.500 DSA you get licensed via OpenVMS
Hobbyist.
Andrew
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