V.35 sync serial. You can *get* V.35 cards for PCs, but I'd imagine it's not supported in most OSes I'd want to do routing in (namely, OpenBSD). I specifically want a DECbrouter because it'll plug into the DEChub 90 I've got. I could certainly run SLIP or PPP over a serial interface to something else, but I'm interested in the DECbrouter because it's supposed to be a DEC/Cisco group effort. I've read a few places that it even runs IOS. The command reference makes this seem likely...it's very IOSish but with DEC specific stuff, like grabbing your firmware over MOP. At the end of the day, I'm just wanting to hack on old network hardware, there's no practicality in running V.35 sync serial between two networks in the lab when both are Ethernet (for the most part) anyway. The DEChub 90 currently has its own Ethernet interface on one of the routers, but with the DECbrouter in, it'll have a V.35 serial interface to the Cisco 2801 that's my main router/gateway and handles the aDSL line. I may hang a Cisco 2501 off of the second serial port on the DECbrouter. Looks like I found one in Australia for a reasonable price. I've ordered an adapter cable for V.35 from Vnetek, the company that bought the company that DEC sold their small network stuff to. $13 plus shipping for a brand new cable, not bad! Thanks, Jonathan On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
The first post in this thread could've been last year, as far as my brain is concerned today. ;) Was he planning to route between hardware interfaces that are reasonable to obtain on something other than a router?
-Dave
On 06/27/2017 03:05 PM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I was thinking the load was light enough for what the OP was looking to do. b
On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On 06/27/2017 02:55 PM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
curious, but can't a VAX of even a modern box of some sort be rigged to act as a router for this kind of thing? Admittedly just asking not knowledgeable enough to answer this question myself..
That depends on the type of interfaces you want to route between. Some of the earliest routers were PDP-11s.
If you need to route something like a T1 or T3 line, that's pretty tough to do on anything but a purpose-built router due to support for those types of hardware interfaces. Further, for more modern circuits like OC192s, etc, there really aren't too many general-purpose computers available that can move data that fast in any predictable or consistent way, and nothing anywhere near as reliable or internally redundant as something like a big Cisco or Juniper machine. They exist with their six-figure price tags for a reason.
-Dave
-- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
-- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA