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- Subject: Re: DECnet areas
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.180614.4212@arizona.edu>
- From: leonard@telcom.arizona.edu (Aaron Leonard)
- Date: 6 Jan 93 18:06:12 MST
- Reply-To: Leonard@Arizona.EDU
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- In article <1993Jan6.184259.8546@ferrari.nmc.ed.ray.com>, smiles@NMC.ED.RAY.COM (Kevin Ruddy)
- writes:
-
- | 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.
-
- Why not have a VMS system at that facility act as an area router to the
- new area (or have several, for redundancy's sake?) We've done this in
- similar situations here, with no observable negative consequences. Some
- traffic may take a suboptimal path, but we haven't seen any unseemly
- performance.
-
- | 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?
-
- I doubt it. DEC keeps claiming that DECnet Phase IV will be "desupported
- real soon" - at DECUS last, I think I heard something about summer '94 -
- so why would a third party vendor want to devote resources to enhancing
- their Phase IV features?
-
- Aaron
-
- Aaron Leonard (AL104), <Leonard@Arizona.EDU>
- University of Arizona Network Operations, Tucson AZ 85721
-