Re: [Linux-decnet-user] VAX emulator

[Patrick C. <pa...@ty...>]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:54:25AM -0800, Henry W. Miller wrote:
>     This brings up another point that I've wanted to talk about: using
> the
> MultiNet TCP/IP product for VMS, it's possible to encapsulate DECNet
> inside of TCP/UDP/IP packets.  Therefore, it could be possible to have
> a DECNet WAN/LAN using TCP/IP over SLIP or PPP without having to
> have a network card on the PC.  But the cost of network cards have
> plummeted so much lately.
> 
>     Anyway, just a thought...

I suppose the other thing it would allow you to do would be to tunnel DECnet
over the internet - using SSH for security I suspectd that might make quite a
good wide-area DECnet network.

Incidentally I tried setting up SLIP in CHARON-VAX on Friday but the VMS TCP/IP
stack doesn't want to start without an ethernet card :(

patrick