14 Mar
2007
14 Mar
'07
12:07 a.m.
At 11:50 PM +0000 3/13/07, <arcarlini at iee.org> wrote:
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).
To the best of my knowledge no one has this going on HECnet, so it's
going to be hard to find someone to talk to.
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).
Yes, Multinet is what I use, which reminds me.... My area router is down...
OK, that was more fun than expected, but now that it's up, the
following link shows what nodes are currently online. Be warned it
takes a couple minutes to update.
http://www.avanthar.com:8080/nodes/
One of these days I'm going to rewrite this so that it periodically
polls and puts the info in a database. That way I can speed up the
page access.
Or, within your own site/home, you could just run a
pair of real
routers that can handle DECnet-Plus!
At least one or two people on HECnet are using this for links.
The majority though I think are using Johnny's link software.
http://www.update.uu.se/~bqt/hecnet.html
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).
I should hope it can send and receive over IP or else I'm doing
something strange :^) I get a lot of my email direct to my VMS box,
and only a couple messages have come to it via DECnet (HECnet).
Zane
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