[Info-vax] Phase IV over IP

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On Thursday, June 22, 2023 at 10:03:58 PM UTC-4, Andy Green wrote:
> Holy cow, I'm so happy to see such an active community here after all these years :) 
> 
> So I have a question for the experts; I have two VMS 5.5-2 systems that I'd like to have talk to each other. The problem is they're in different locations, but they are connected over the Internet. They are both Phase IV end nodes and they're both running UCX. 
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> Is there some way I can get the two of them to talk DECnet Phase IV to each other over the Internet? I have the option of putting OpenVMS 7.3 full routing nodes (running Phase IV, preferably) in between them to act as "translators", if that would work? 
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> Andy

I ran Decnet Phase IV over IP for over 30 nodes back in the early 2000s. It ran on TCPware beautifully.

You can run it in an encrypted tunnel for a cost I was told by a TCPware rep.