DECNet over IP?

Wed Mar 14 17:24:57 UTC 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 <simonl at rd.bbc.co.uk>
Sent by: owner-nanog at merit.edu
03/14/2001 11:30 AM

        To:     "Stillman, Kevin" <STILLMKT at sysadm.suny.edu>
        cc:     "'nanog at merit.edu'" <nanog at merit.edu>
        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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