ARPANET Implementation

[Unibus]

Hi,

Stuffed up my last email's formatting so I'm trying again.

What springs to mind is setting up a site at home with a machine that emulates ARPANET as 252 (63 x 4) IPv4 addresses and people 'dial in' as they need. If I was doing this then one more IP Address would be for a Wiki. And do you know what is the easiest part... the 256 IP addresses. 

I currently have 256 IPv4 addresses at home with BGP protocol. If I had the software and the time ARPANET could be running tomorrow. Of course it can't happen as my time is taken up with court case prep at the moment.

Catch with BGP protocol is the minimum allocation is 256 IPv4 addresses.

Next catch is an allocation is only available to Amateur (Ham) Radio Operators

Next catch is it can be experimental but it can't be commercial.

For further info see the 44Net Wiki wiki or 44Net 

Regards,

Garry

[Oscar Vermeulen]

Garry,

Interesting idea!

Though the IMPs only need 2 UDP ports per 'leased line' connection. So if someone runs his own IMP (with his host machines attached to them locally) that'll work differently.

A host computer connects to his IMP with two UDP ports. Following your idea, the IMPS would all run on the central server and a user's machine (say, a PiDP-1 :-) ) would get assigned to a host port to an IMP on the server. 

So two different models to connect up. Both, admittedly, better than what I have on my test server. (https://obsolescence.dev/arpanet_home.html) Which is one connection open for an external IMP and, I believe, 8 for connections from a host computer to an IMP already running on the server.

It is all a matter of config files. For now, I focus on two 'models': one public test Arpanet on that server, very much not set up in the best way. And one model, cloning this on a local system so someone has the Arpanet-in-a-box running locally just for himself. Aaah, the whole Arpanet all for yourself :-) No people.

The fun, of course, is in using that Arpanet to have your MIT and Stanford machines accessible to play with.

Kind regards,

Oscar.

[Bill E]

Sigh, yet another thing to try. I remember it well. My primary use was via Multics, though. Don't remember using it on a PDP, but it's been a while. Most of the time we spent trying to hack into the DOD sites.

I dropped all my town govt roles (didn't run again this year) just to have more time to play with all this stuff. :)

Bill

[Unibus]

Hi,

In my case it is a housing subdivision that has consumed all my time. Thought I might have found out today if this was going to take more of my time or none. Simple question, but no answer.

Regards,

Garry

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