9 Dec
2005
9 Dec
'05
1:22 a.m.
How were you going to connect physically with
HECnet? Set up some other
box as a gateway?
Bob
Yeah, using my Sun machine that I use for everything else, I was just going
to tunnel a serial port onto HECnet, and link it in with Telnet, as Johnny
describes on the HECnet page.
However, since I'm tunneling serial, I wonder if I could use some sort of
high speed synchronous device instead of asynchronous. I do have two
synchronous QBUS serial cards, though I have no way of knowing how I'd
connect them to the Sun, nor if I can tunnel sync instead of async serial.
There's also the other option of buying the VMS hobbyist kit and setting up
an emulated VAX under SIMH, but I don't know how that handles Ethernet
(which would be a lot faster, and I do have a DEQNA set up and ready to use)
Anyone have any suggestions?