[Info-vax] Phase IV over IP

[Johnny Billquist]

You mailed me? I haven't seen anything.

   Johnny

On 2023-06-26 04:27, Andy Green wrote:
> So your post got me curious and I checked out hecnet... how can I get connected?  I emailed the guy to see about getting connected but haven't heard back from him yet... is it very active?
> 
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> On Friday, June 23, 2023 at 1:46:11 AM UTC-4, Crni Mrki wrote:
>> I use this to connect my home decnet to hecnet network:
>> http://mim.stupi.net/pydecnet.htm .
>> Works very well.
>> Dana petak, 23. lipnja 2023. u 07:38:55 UTC+2 korisnik Dave Froble napisao je:
>>> On 6/22/2023 10:03 PM, 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>> Andy
>>>>
>>> My understanding is that somewhere along the path you're going to run into a
>>> device that does not handle DECnet. Perhaps every device you run into. You'd
>>> need IP addresses to even reach remote systems.
>>>
>>> Perhaps an IP tunnel would work. Not familiar with that.
>>>
>>> Multinet is reputed to route DECnet using IP packets, I've been told. Never
>>> used it myself.
>>>
>>> While I don't recommend phase V, I'm told it will route using IP.
>>>
>>> I guess it depends upon your intentions, however, using TCP/IP you should be
>>> able to talk between the systems. But not phase IV DECnet.
>>>
>>> Me, I'd much prefer V7.3 over earlier versions. V7.2 I believe enhanced
>>> directory operations.
>>>
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