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In article <BxD4vs.1By@micrognosis.co.uk>, nreadwin@micrognosis.co.uk (Neil Readwin) writes:
| |> [I wrote:]
| |> | Can you run DECnet over multiple Ethernet adapters? If so, under what
| |> | conditions? Would it work with:
| |> [...]
| |> | 	2) 2 adapters on 2 networks with every node in the same area?
| |> 
| |> Sure, this would be the usual way to do it.
| |> 
| |> | 	3) 2 adapters on 2 networks with a different area for each node?
| 
| Whoops, I meant a different area for each network.
| 
| |> Might I ask why you would want to do this?
| 
| The question came up in a discussion of whether we should stop bridging 2
| of our networks and route between them instead.  Someone said (incorrectly,
| as it turns out) "You can't run DECnet over 2 Ethernet adapters". We can
| probably solve our problem by configuring the bridges to prevent certain
| protocols passing through them, but we wanted to know if routing was
| possible. Cheers, Neil.

One recommendation, if you do decide to go the routing route instead of
bridging:

DECnet routing will optimally handle an arbitrary topology if all nodes
are in a single area.  But if nodes are in separate areas, traffic will
take suboptimal routes because interarea traffic must pass thru
level 2 routers even if such a path is physically unnecessary.

So I would DISRECOMMEND assigning separate areas to each DECnet 
"subnet", but instead give everyone addresses within a single area,
up until you reach your 1K node limit.

Aaron