[Info-vax] Networking Benchmarks

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/13/2019 4:05 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 9/13/19 1:30 PM, abrsvc wrote:
>> Realize that this question is sure to start the whole "security" or 
>> "lack thereof" discussion with regards to DECNET.
>>
>> I know of existing customers that use DECNET for connections between 
>> OpenVMS systems only where all but one are isolated from the outside 
>> world.  I too would think that performance would be better in this 
>> case, but have nothing other than anecdotal info to back it up.
> 
> Security was one of the things I was thinking of actually.
> Having all your customers data in a database on a backend
> system that is not only not on the Internet, but doesn't
> even have TCPIP installed on it.  That only leaves insider
> threat and there is little you can do to prevent or eliminate
> that.

If there are insiders with access to the network but
not access to the systems, then network encryption can
make a difference.

Arne