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>> We have an AGS+ at each of three of our facilities.  Each AGS+ has about
>> eight to ten Ethernet interfaces.  Each facility is a different DECnet area,
>> and the AGS+ at the facility is the DECnet area router.
>> 
>> At one of our facilities, we are running out of DECnet addresses.  We have
>> already allocated 750 of 1000 addresses, and at the rate we're using them
>> we'll have used them all by this June.  We will be forced to move to a
>> second DECnet area before the 1993 is out.
>> 
>> The only way I know to implement this second DECnet area is by using a
>> separate piece of equipment -- basically, a second AGS+.  We'd really rather
>> not do this.
>> 
>> Can the existing AGS+ do anything regarding this second area?  Can it act as
>> area router for two different areas?  Are these in the plans for future
>> Cisco releases?
>> -- 
>> Kevin.Ruddy@NMC.ED.RAY.COM
>> 

Cisco routers have offered level 1 and level 2 (area) DECnet routers for
some time.  I don't know when the support was initial done, but it has been
there since release 8.2.

The below configuration commands are described in chapter 12 in the Release
9.0 and Release 9.1 router manuals.  I suspect the commands are the same in
earlier releases, but check the DECnet chapter just to be sure.

To configure the cisco router as a level 1 router use the command:

	decnet node routing-iv

To configure the cisco router as a level 2 (area) router, use the command:

	decnet node area

Regards,

Nick Thille
Engineering 
cisco Systems, Inc