[Info-vax] booting vaxstation off alpha

[Chris Scheers]

Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2013-02-12 22:10:54 +0000, Chris Scheers said:
> 
>> We used to have a 780/785 cluster where we configured the DECnet 
>> channel on CI.  It had lower priority than the Ethernet.  It did save 
>> us a few times when "stuff happened" on the Ethernet that disrupted 
>> communications.  We would loose our terminal servers, but the 
>> DECnet/CI was enough to keep the cluster from crashing.  When the 
>> Ethernet came back, everything could continue.
> 
> Whether or not DECnet was running undoubtedly mattered to DECnet-based 
> applications within the cluster, but was inconsequential to the 
> operation of the cluster itself.

I stated that poorly.  When the Ethernet was down, the CI provided 
enough DECnet capability that everything in the cluster continued to 
work except that we lost communication with the terminal servers.

When the Ethernet came back, the terminal servers came back and 
processing could continue without needing to reboot/restart anything.

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