14 Mar
2007
14 Mar
'07
1:21 a.m.
Andrew Back wrote:
But where is the fun in RFC1006? Would prefer to have
native ISO CONS
running direct atop layer 2 on the LAN rather than on top of IP. So
you kinda have a real native network, and can play around with ISO
routing. Or, are you saying you can configure IS-IS connections to
tunnel via IP and have your ES-IS native ethernet?
Given the right equipment it's easy to configure a proper Phase V
network.
I don't think Routing ever made it onto OpenVMS VAX but I do think it
made it into OpenVMS Alpha. Not sure about Digital Unix though.
Then again WR90s and Routeabouts are common enough. If you
like bigger, noiser hardware then DEMSA and DECnis are for you!
Right, forgot VMSmail could use IP direct. Would be
more fun it using
I forgot that the Message Router stuff (including MRX) also provided
a VMSmail transport.
an X.400 gateway and then X.400 MIXER gateway to get
out to the
Internet, and storing all the routing and address translation in
X.500.
I think the very first time I used X.400 was configuring it as a
customer.
Hmm, I can imagine that must have been fun. Just using
X.400 can be a
steep-ish learning curve, and peering to another vendor's MTA
'interesting', especially if in some other ADMD you don't control and
across over a public PSDN...
My recollection (as a customer) was that either you were trying to peer
9as I was) to BT Gold, and they spoke a different language; or you were
trying to peer to someone else who also didn't know what they doing
(and spoke a different language) :-)
Still, I think these
systems and
associated protocols also need preserving and using, and can be fun
:o)
Even without additional hardware you can set up X.25 over LLC2 (ISO8889
IIRC) and pretend you have two systems separated by a PSDN. Then you
can get MRX running on each of them. I currently have PSI on my
VAXstation
set up that way, although the other end (another VAXstation) is
currently
powered off.
Antonio
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