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- VNet, VirtualNET, MultiNet, and LocalNET
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- VBBS 6.12 Documentation -- 9-1
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- ║ CHAPTER NINE VNET, VIRTUALNET, MULTI-NET, AND LOCALNET ║
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- The VNET.EXE is part of the VBBS package. It is the most
- advanced Wide-Area Networking software in existence, providing
- commercial and amateur networking installations a superior solu-
- tion to any networking need. For more information on VNET.EXE,
- see Annex 1 of this chapter.
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- VirtualNET
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- VirtualNET is currently the largest of the hobbyist VNET-
- based networks and, as of this writing, maintains over 600 net-
- worked message areas that are shared internationally.
- Although there are many areas within the network, reflec-
- ting a wide variety of interests, VirtualNET retains as its pri-
- mary purpose the support of the VBBS/VNET software. That
- nearly-famous support and the fast-growing network around it
- have been online for nearly three years as of this writing.
- You will find VirtualNET easy to get into and a lot of
- fun to participate in. VirtualNET is friendly, casual, and
- filled with a lot of great people inside what's become the
- ever-increasing VirtualNET family (nearly 1300 networked
- systems as of this writing).
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- Join us! Networking your BBS with VirtualNET is quick,
- easy, and quite affordable due to the efficiency of the VNET
- design. Network "packets" are automatically compressed for
- transmission, reducing the length of the transfer to 1/3 that
- of sending uncompressed data. The network software can make
- full use of the new HS/Link bi-directional protocol, which
- can make network transfers even more efficient.
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- In addition, VirtualNET itself undergoes reorganizations
- designed to minimize long-distance connections between "client"
- BBSs and their "servers". While these can occasionally get a
- little hairy as systems are moved from one VirtualNET "region"
- to another, they're a necessary part of VirtualNET's growth and
- dedication to maximum efficiency.
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- --> IMPORTANT NOTE: Although the software itself has a clearly
- defined demonstration period which you are
- expected to observe, registration is NOT
- required to apply for a VirtualNET network
- node assignment.
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- --> IMPORTANT NOTE: VirtualNET, while proprietary to VNET and
- VBBS by nature, is a separate entity from
- the VBBS program. The VirtualNET Network
- Coordinator (NC) reserves the ultimate
- right of admission or exclusion concerning
- the VirtualNET status of any VirtualNET
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- VBBS 6.12 Documentation -- 9-2
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- BBS, sysop, or applicant, irrespective of
- VBBS/NET registration status, etc.
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- For more information on VirtualNET and the program, see
- Annex 1 of this chapter.
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- The Multi-Net
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- The unique and developing VBBS "Multi-Net" allows VBBS
- sysops the capability of maintaining up to 999 different compu-
- ter networks simultaneously. The Multi-Net is capable of han-
- dling and nearly transparently "gating" private E-mail and net-
- worked subs of VNET-, FIDO-, UUCP-, and WWIV-based networks and
- others in an ever-expanding "Multi-Net".
- Utility programs that enable the use of these networks
- -- VWW4.EXE, VFIDO.EXE, VUUCP.EXE, and more to come -- are
- freely available to VBBS sysops and operative in the demo
- version. They become inoperative if VBBS remains unregistered
- after 60 days.
- A master network list file (NETWORKS.LST) is maintained
- and administered; it includes formal "slots" for VNet-type
- networks and completely sysop-configureable slots (15,19,90-99)
- to use in conjunction with any of the above network utilities.
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- In addition, up to 999 slots may be configured by sysops
- who wish to create a local network of as few as two BBSes. There
- is no maximum on the number of local network nodes permitted.
- Please see LOCALNET.DOC for specific information.
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- For more information on the Multi-Net, please see Annex 2 to
- this chapter.
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