kenw@noah.arc.CDN (Ken Wallewein) (12/22/87)
I sent this out a coupla weeks ago, and got nothing - nada. But then, I
never saw it in distribution, either, so... heerre goes again.
We are about to connect our existing DECnet network to a new cross-country
network. Pursuant to this, I am trying to pursuade to people running the new
network to choose an area number _other_ than the default of 1.
In my view, it is becoming increasingly more likely that new network
connections will be to existing networks such as ours, rather than to
individual (non-networked) systems. As such, I would think that such
interconnections would be greatly facilitated by lack of area numbering
coinflicts.
So... to the question: how many of you people out there are using area
numbers _other_ than the above-mentiond default of 1?
I suppose it wouldn't hurt to ask if anyone thinks I'm barking up an empty
tree, for that matter. Hmmm? I volunteer to provide the results of this
question to the network at large.
/kenw
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Ken Wallewein R E S E A R C H
kenw@noah.arc.cdn C O U N C I Lcarl@CITHEX.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) (12/23/87)
> So... to the question: how many of you people out there are using area > numbers _other_ than the above-mentiond default of 1? HEPnet/SPAN (High Energy Physics net/Space Physics Analysis Network), which consists of several thousand machines (last I heard it was the world's second- largest DECnet) currently uses areas: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 17, 18, 20, 22, 24, 25, 27, 28, 33, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 57, and 60.
ccaw001@UTADNX.CC.UTEXAS.EDU ("Rick Watson") (12/24/87)
The Texas Higher Education Network uses the following areas: 2 Southwest Texas State University 3 Pan American University (possibly also Corpus Christi State and the UT Austin Marine Sciences Institute in Port Aransas) 4 Sam Houston State University 5 Baylor University 6 Texas Tech University 7 Abilene Christian University 8 North Texas State University 9 Texas A&M University, HARC 10 Texas A&M University (reserved for future growth) 11 HARC (reserved for future growth) 14 UT El Paso, UT Permian Basin, UT West Texas Lands Management (reserved for planned migration) 15 UT Tyler, UT Health Center Tyler (reserved for planned migration) 16 UT San Antonio (reserved for planned migration) 17 UT Health Science Center San Antonio, UT San Antonio 19 UT Austin 20 UT Austin 21 UT System Cancer Center, Houston; UT Health Science Center Houston; UT Medical Branch, Galveston 22 UT Arlington 23 UT Health Science Center Dallas; UT Dallas 24 UT Dallas (reserved for future growth) 25 UT System Center for High Performance Computing, UT Austin Applied Research Labs, UT Health Center Tyler, UT Tyler, UT Permain Basin, UT El Paso, UT System West Texas Lands Management Office 26 The University of Houston 37 Wilford Hall Medical Center 38 Brooke Army Medical Center 39 Brooks School of Aerospace Medicine 40 Southwest Research Institute Rick Watson University of Texas Computation Center ------
CALIFFM@BAYLOR.BITNET (Michael Califf) (12/28/87)
Sorry to trouble the list with this, but our mailer ralfed on the return address. Ken: THENet (Texas Higher Education NETwork - formerly TEXNet) is a network of 496 nodes, currently using Areas 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,17,19,20, 21,22,23,25,26,37,38,39, and 40. The only thing in area 1 is a 'mock' node 1.1 which holds the current version of the THENet configuration file used. Mike Califf THENet: BAYLOR::CALIFFM BITNET: CALIFFM@BAYLOR