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- From: Nicholas Thille <thille@cisco.com>
- Subject: DECnet areas
- In-Reply-To: Kevin Ruddy's message of 6 Jan 93 18:42:59 GMT <1993Jan6.184259.8546@ferrari.nmc.ed.ray.com>
- Message-ID: <726428920.11296@news.Colorado.EDU>
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- Date: 7 Jan 93 07:48:14 -0800
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- >> 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.
- >>
- >> 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?
- >> --
- >> Kevin.Ruddy@NMC.ED.RAY.COM
- >>
-
- Cisco routers have offered level 1 and level 2 (area) DECnet routers for
- some time. I don't know when the support was initial done, but it has been
- there since release 8.2.
-
- The below configuration commands are described in chapter 12 in the Release
- 9.0 and Release 9.1 router manuals. I suspect the commands are the same in
- earlier releases, but check the DECnet chapter just to be sure.
-
- To configure the cisco router as a level 1 router use the command:
-
- decnet node routing-iv
-
- To configure the cisco router as a level 2 (area) router, use the command:
-
- decnet node area
-
- Regards,
-
- Nick Thille
- Engineering
- cisco Systems, Inc
-