13 Mar
2007
13 Mar
'07
4:50 p.m.
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.
If you are running DECnet-Plus (i.e. DECnet/OSI) then you can use IP
as a transport layer, so you won't need to do any funny ethernet-over
-IP stuff. (This is just like doing RFC 1006).
If you are running the Multinet IP stack then it can tunnel DECnet
(Phase IV).
At least I _think_ it is Multinet that can do that (certainly one of the
3rd party ones can).
Or, within your own site/home, you could just run a pair of real
routers that can handle DECnet-Plus!
That all being said, VMSmail can certainly send and receive over
IP (and X.25 and anything else you care to write a mail transport for).
As for X.400, I think my first "critical" bug fix involved MRX, although
the details are currently lost in my notebooks. So I think that's enough
Mailbus to last me a lifetime!
Antonio
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