Re: DECnet areas

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From: RHUNTER
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 09:31

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I have done some more digging into the validity of 2 areas on 1 Ethernet.

Page 2-27 of VMS Networking Manual april 88 for VMS v5.0

"2.4.4.3 Area Routing on Ethernet
All nodes on an Ethernet need not be in the same area; you can configure
more than one area on a single ethernet. The areas on the same Ethernet are
logically seperate from each other.....
Section A.6 illustrates area routing on an Ethernet"

looks like everything will be OK.

Just a reminder of the problem:
Is it possible to run more than 1 DECnet area in a Cisco?

I think you use the Address Translation Gateway to start two processes
> decnet 0 routing
> decnet 0 node-type area
...
but you do NOT configure any translations....
the 2 routing processes should then run seperately, and only communicate
via the common Ethernet interfaces.

It then becomes a question of how many Ethernets you need to share areas
on, as you need to use 2 interfaces per Ethernet.

Once again, a reminder that this comes untested!

Ray Hunter
RHUNTER@ESOC.BITNET
Cray Systems on Contract to the European Space Agency
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