[35657] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DECNet over IP?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Lockhart)
Wed Mar 14 11:43:18 2001
To: "Stillman, Kevin" <STILLMKT@sysadm.suny.edu>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Mar 2001 11:09:48 EST."
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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:30:22 +0000
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From: Simon Lockhart <simonl@rd.bbc.co.uk>
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>Has anyone had any experience successfully getting native DECNet packets
>encapsulated in an IP packet and transmitted over an IP network? The
>solution I am trying to create will allow VAXes to continue to talk DECNet
>on their LANs and have the ability to communicate with DECNet areas on a WAN
>via IP. Essentially we are try to remove the DECNet protocol from our
>intranet while not disrupting location's DECNet configurations.
I've not tried it, but my gut reaction would be to use GRE tunnels. Have
you looked on cisco.com for sample configs?
Simon
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