[Info-vax] Phase IV over IP

[Andy Green]

Thanks for the tip on this, I set it up and got it to work!  I have two Raspberry Pi's running as routers on either end of the network, and I got DECnet running between my home systems and the ones in our office!  Really neat!

Andy

On Friday, June 23, 2023 at 5:10:07 AM UTC-4, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2023-06-23 04:03, Andy Green wrote: 
> > Holy cow, I'm so happy to see such an active community here after all these years :)
> There are still crazy people around. ;-)
> > 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. 
> > 
> > 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?
> Several ways. As mentioned, if you have Multinet installed instead of 
> UCX, then you can setup DECnet circuits that runs over IP. So you can 
> connect any nodes that can just talk IP to each other. 
> 
> Another option mentioned is PyDECnet. This also runs Multinet-compatible 
> links over IP. But in addition, it's a full phase IV routing node. So 
> you can have that on an adjacent machine with ethernet connectivity to 
> your VMS host. And then have PyDECnet route the packets from your local 
> ethernet over a link on IP to the remote end. Remote end can run 
> PyDECnet, or Multinet on VMS (or even RSX, which also support this). 
> 
> Johnny