A Hobbyist DECnet Network

[Julian Wolfe]

>   How were you going to connect physically with HECnet?  Set up some other
> box as a gateway?
> 
> Bob
>

Yeah, using my Sun machine that I use for everything else, I was just going
to tunnel a serial port onto HECnet, and link it in with Telnet, as Johnny
describes on the HECnet page.

However, since I'm tunneling serial, I wonder if I could use some sort of
high speed synchronous device instead of asynchronous.  I do have two
synchronous QBUS serial cards, though I have no way of knowing how I'd
connect them to the Sun, nor if I can tunnel sync instead of async serial.

There's also the other option of buying the VMS hobbyist kit and setting up
an emulated VAX under SIMH, but I don't know how that handles Ethernet
(which would be a lot faster, and I do have a DEQNA set up and ready to use)

Anyone have any suggestions?