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Re: DECNet over IP?

  • From: Spencer.Wood
  • Date: Wed Mar 14 13:02:29 2001

GRE tunnel's are the best.  We used that for over a year to tunnel Banyan Vines across our IP Network....

It works great....

Spencer

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Simon Lockhart <[email protected]>
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03/14/2001 11:30 AM

       
        To:        "Stillman, Kevin" <[email protected]>
        cc:        "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
        Subject:        Re: DECNet over IP?




>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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