14 Mar
2007
14 Mar
'07
12:44 a.m.
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, John C. Ellingboe wrote:
Andrew Back wrote:
Thanks, was totally unaware of this. I was thinking of DECnet Phase V so
you could support ISO apps like X.500, X.400, FTAM & VT. Some people there
might be interested in this also though, so will get in touch.
Andrew
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!