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SANYALnet Labs

That is just a name I have given my disorganized bunch of computers and electronics hobby projects; it is nebulous and does not really mean anything. Equivalent to "junk in the basement."

DECnet - MAC address - SCSSYSTEMID Calculator

Here is a DECnet administrator's tool in javascript: DECnet - MAC address - SCSSYSTEMID Calculator »

HECnet in a box

HECnet is the global hobbyist DECnet network where people from around the world connect their real and emulated machines to communicate over Digital Equipment Corporation's DECnet networking protocol. "HECnet in a Box" is a Oracle VirtualBox appliance that allows hobbyists to quickly and easily configure a DECnet/Python node and a RSX-11M-PLUS node to get connected to HECnet. It is publicly available from download links posted at HECnet-in-a-Box distribution: A virtual machine for quick and effortless connection to HECnet - the global hobbyist DECnet network »

SANYALnet Labs Network Diagram

A snapshot of the ways my various hobbyist computers and servers are connected »

Nodes

• IMPVAX - SIMH VAX VAXserver 3900, OpenVMS 7.3 Operating System, DECnet Phase IV Area Router
  • 31.1 over HECnet
  • OSU HTTPD Web Server: http://impvax.duckdns.org/
  • IMPVAX is a DECnet Phase IV Area Router serving as the United States East gateway to HECnet - the hobbyist DECnet network. It is also the Routing Node for all Digital and non-Digital systems communicating over DECnet at SANYALnet Labs. It runs Process Software's MULTINET to communicate with other DECnet nodes and uplink to HECnet. It additionally uses a VDE (Virtual Distributed Ethernet) switch to communicate with rest of the DECnet nodes in my home.
  • IMPVAX runs in the cloud inside an Amazon AWS EC2 instance running Ubuntu 14 at sanyalnet-awsec2-1.now-dns.org.
  • Accounts for HECnet members on request.
    
    
• KARMA - Cisco 7206VXR router, R7000 CPU, running Cisco IOS 12.3(15) Operating System: DECnet, AppleTalk and IP Router
  • 31.2 over HECnet
  • KARMA is a dynamips/dynagen emulated Cisco 7206VXR router that routes DECnet and AppleTalk, connecting to remote subnets over GRE tunnels. It resides on the same Amazon EC2 instance as IMPVAX and PYRTR. It is turned off most of the time, waiting to kick in if IMPVAX and PYRTR become unusable.
    
    
• PYRTR - DECnet/Python DECnet Phase IV Area Router
  • 31.3 over HECnet
  • PYRTR runs in the cloud inside an Amazon AWS EC2 instance running Ubuntu 14 at sanyalnet-awsec2-1.now-dns.org. It is an alternative to IMPVAX for the same HECnet routing functions as IMPVAX, and is often actively performing those functions with IMPVAX at standby.
  • DECnet/Python is a complete DECnet routing implementation written in Python by Paul Koning. It supports a variety of protocols to route DECnet traffic, including Process Software's MULTINET DECnet-over-IP protocol, CISCO GRE tunneling protocol, Ethernet, Johnny Bilquist's bridge.c and SIMH built-in protocol.
    
    
• QCOCAL - SIMH VAX VAXserver 3900, OpenVMS 7.3 Operating System
  • TELNET sanyalnet-openvms-vax.freeddns.org
  • 31.10 over HECnet
  • WASD Web Server: http://sanyalnet-openvms-vax.freeddns.org:82/
  • Status of SANYALnet Labs DECnet Nodes »
  • Guest Access: GUEST/WELCOME123
    
    
• CLOUDY - SIMH VAX VAX-11/780, OpenVMS 7.3 Operating System
  • 31.11 over HECnet
  • Guest Access: GUEST/WELCOME123
    
    
• JUICHI - SIMH PDP-11/24, RSX-11M-PLUS 4.6 Operating System
  • 31.12 over HECnet
  • Guest Access: USER/USER
    
    
• FEDACH - Ubuntu 14 Operating System with IP, DECnet-Linux DECnet and AppleTalk Networking
  • Ubuntu 14.04.5 was the last ubuntu release with workable DECnet-Linux as well as classic AppleTalk protocol support built into the kernel.
  • 31.13 over HECnet
  • Accounts for HECnet members on request.
    
    
• FOMFOR - Ubuntu 14 Operating System with IP, DECnet-Linux DECnet and AppleTalk Networking
  • Ubuntu 14.04.5 was the last ubuntu release with workable DECnet-Linux as well as classic AppleTalk protocol support built into the kernel.
  • 31.14 over HECnet
  • Accounts for HECnet members on request.
    
    
• OSTARA - SIMH VAX VAXserver 3900, DEC ULTRIX 4.0 Operating System
  • 31.15 over HECnet
  • Accounts for HECnet members on request
    
    
• WEXPEE - Windows Server 2003 Operating System with IP, DECnet Pathworks-32 and AppleTalk Networking
  • 31.16 over HECnet
  • Web Server: http://sanyal.duckdns.org:85/
  • Windows Server 2003 has built-in AppleTalk Phase-2 support. WEXPEE is configured as a seed router for my hobbyist AppleTalk classic network.
  • Accounts for HECnet members on request.
    
    
• ENTEE4 - Windows NT 4.0 Operating System, DECnet Pathworks-32 Hobbyist Server
  • 31.17 over HECnet
  • Web Server: http://sanyal.duckdns.org:83/
  • Accounts for HECnet members on request.
    
    
• RAPTOR - AlphaServer ES40, OpenVMS Alpha 8.3 Operating System
  • 31.18 over HECnet
  • OSU HTTPD Web Server: http://sanyal.duckdns.org/
  • Status of SANYALnet Labs DECnet Nodes »
  • TELNET and SSH Accounts for HECnet members on request.
    
    
• MACOS9 - SheepShaver Power Macintosh 9500 / PowerPC G4 Apple Mac OS 9 with DECnet PHASE IV, AppleTalk Phase 2 and TCP/IP Networking as a DECnet Phase IV End Node and AppleTalk Node
  • This SheepShaver emulated Apple Power Macintosh 9500 running MacOS 9 (hosted on ubuntu 17.10) communicates over classic AppleTalk Phase 2, and DECnet Phase IV using Digital Pathworks for Macintosh.
  • 31.19 over HECnet
  • The AppleTalk experience: Mac OS 9 on SheepShaver and Netatalk on Ubuntu
    
    
• WFW311 - Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11 / i386 PC with DECnet PHASE IV and TCP/IP Networking as a DECnet Phase IV End Node
  • 31.20 over HECnet
  • Running 16-bit Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11 on top of IBM PC DOS 7.1 (AKA IBM PC DOS 2000), this i386 PC has dual network adapters, one dedicated NIC each for Internet Protocol (IP) via Microsoft TCP/IP, and DECnet via DEC Pathworks 5.1 for DOS and Windows for Workgroups. In addition to Digital's Pathworks 5.1 suite and Microsoft Networking protocols, it is loaded with nostalgic goodies, including Xitami's httpd web server, Quarterdeck's QEMM386.SYS for XMS, EMS, UMB and high memory management, Norton Utilities for DOS and Windows, Norton Desktop, PC Tools Desktop, PC Tools for DOS and Windows, MS DOS 6.22, 4DOS, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visual C++, Opera web browser, numerous audio and video players, multimedia tools, win32s 32-bit extension for Windows 3.1, classic games and more.
    
    
• WXPEE2 - Windows XP Pro Operating System with IP, DECnet Pathworks-32 and AppleTalk Networking
  • 31.21 over HECnet
  • Web Server: http://sanyal.duckdns.org:88/
  • AppleTalk support via files copied over from Windows 2000 into Windowx XP
  • Accounts for HECnet members on request
    
    
• TRU64 - AlphaServer 400 4/166, Tru64 Unix Operating System
  • 31.22 over HECnet
  • HTTPD Web Server: http://sanyal.duckdns.org:89/
  • TELNET and SSH Accounts for HECnet members on request
    
    
• XLVII - SIMH VAX 8600, VAX VMS 4.7 Operating System
  
  
  • 31.23 over HECnet
  • This VAX runs the classic VAX/VMS 4.7 operating system with DECnet. It is an implementation of Andy Hoffman's awesome VAX VMS 4.7 distribution, and includes BASIC, BLISS-32, C, COBOL, FORTRAN and Pascal compilers.
  • TCP/IP communications on this VAX VMS 4.7 node is provided by CMU-OpenVMS/IP (also referred to variously as "CMU/Tek TCP/IP", "CMUIP", "CMU/IP", "CMU TCPIP") version 6.3 which supports VAX VMS 4. For more information on CMU TCP/IP for VAX VMS 4.7, see Installing CMU TCP/IP 6.3 on VAX VMS 4.7.
  • Accounts for HECnet members on request
    
    
• TSTVAX - SIMH VAX VAXserver 3900, OpenVMS 7.3 Operating System
  • 31.24 over HECnet
  • OSU HTTPD Web Server: http://sanyal.duckdns.org:90/
  • This VAX is used for experimenting with various mechanisms to communicate over DECnet with other nodes, including MULTINET, HECnet bridge.c program, VDE and more.
  • Accounts for HECnet members on request
    
    
• W2000S - Windows 2000 Server Operating System with IP, DECnet Pathworks-32 and AppleTalk Networking
  • 31.26 over HECnet
    
    
• MACOS7 - Basilink-II Macintosh IIci / Motorola 68030 Apple MacOS System 7.5.5 with DECnet PHASE IV, AppleTalk Phase 2 and TCP/IP Networking as a DECnet Phase IV End Node and AppleTalk Node
  • 31.27 over HECnet
  • This Basilink II emulated Apple Macintosh IIci running MacOS System 7.5.5 (hosted on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed) communicates over classic AppleTalk and DECnet. DECnet is implemented by Thursby Software TSSnet for Macintosh, which was the basis of DEC PathWorks. The DECnet Phase IV executor identification string is "TSSnet® V2.4.0-MacIIci V7.5.5".
    
    
• RST101 - PDP-11/73, RSTS/E 10.1-L Operating System with DECnet/E 4.1, DECnet Phase IV End Node
  • 31.28 over HECnet
  • RST101 is a SIMH PDP-11/73 node running RSTS/E operating system version 10.1-L with DECnet/E 4.1. Marketed by DEC as a "MicroPDP", the PDP-11/73 featured 15.2 MHz DEC J-11 microprocessor chip-set with Q-Bus and supported a maximum of 4 MB of memory.
    
    
• TWENEX - DEC PDP-10, TOPS-20 v7.1 Operating System, DECnet Phase IV End Node
  • 31.29 over HECnet
  • VAXSTN - VAXstation II/GPX Graphical Workstation, OpenVMS/VAX 7.3 Operating System, DECnet Phase IV End Node
    • 31.30 over HECnet
    • VAXSTN is an instance of the new SIMH MicroVAX-2 emulator configured for QDSS graphics. The DECwindows/Motif desktop is presented by SIMH using libS DL2 graphics library.
      
      
  • TWENEX is a DEC PDP-10 (also called DECsystem-10) mainframe running the latest famous Mark Crispin's Panda TOPS-20 distribution. It is emulated under Linux by Ken Harrenstein's KLH10. It has a GUEST account.
    
    
• XLIV - VAX 11/780, VAX/VMS 4.4 operating system, DECnet Phase IV End Node
  • 31.31 over HECnet
  • XLIV is a SimH VAX-11/780 running ancient VAX/VMS 4.7 operating system.
    
    
• PIPY - DECnet/Python Router, DECnet Phase IV Routing Node
  • 31.32 ov er HECnet
  • PIPY routes local DECnet traffic to PYRTR which is the HECnet-facing router for Area 31.
    
    
• SHAKTI - Cisco 7206VXR router, R7000 CPU, running Cisco IOS 12.3(15) Operating System: DECnet, AppleTalk and IP Router
  • 31.50 over HECnet
  • A dynamips/dynagen emulated Cisco router that establishes GRE Tunnels to transport DECnet over IP. Also serves as a AppleTalk Phase-2 seed router in my AppleTalk network.
    
    
• MOKSHA - Cisco 7206VXR router, R7000 CPU, running Cisco IOS 12.3(15) Operating System: DECnet, AppleTalk and IP Router
  • 31.1020 over HECnet
  • A dynamips/dynagen emulated Cisco router that establishes GRE Tunnels to transport DECnet over IP. Also serves as a AppleTalk Phase-2 seed router in my AppleTalk network.
    
    
• PYDNET - DECnet/Python (User-Mode DECnet Implementation)
  • 31.1021 over HECnet
  • Paul Koning's DECnet implementation in Python. This runs as a user-space DECnet routing application on any platform that supports Python.
    
    
  • DECnet/Python status Web Server: http://sanyal.duckdns.org:8000/
• IMPRTR - Cisco 7206VXR router, R7000 CPU, running Cisco IOS 12.3(15) Operating System: DECnet, AppleTalk and IP Router
  • 31.1023 over HECnet
  • A dynamips/dynagen emulated Cisco router that establishes GRE Tunnels to transport DECnet over IP, connecting to other Cisco DECnet Area Routers on HECnet. Also serves as a AppleTalk Phase-2 seed router in my AppleTalk network.
  • A periodically updated summary of DECnet neighbors and routing information generated by an expect script is available here.
    
    
• SunOS 5.11/Solaris 11 Operating System Hobbyist Server
  • Web Server: http://sanyal.duckdns.org:81/
  • ssh guest@sanyal.duckdns.org
    
    
• PCDOS2000 IBM PC DOS 7.1 Web Server
  • IBM PC DOS is MS-DOS compatible Disk Operating System for IBM PC family of computers. PC DOS 2000 is basically PC DOS version 7.1 which is an upgrade from PC DOS 7.0 with added year 2000 compatibility.
    This server uses a packet driver and Michael B. Brutman's mTCP TCP/IP suite for DOS (more details here) to serve web pages from http://sanyal.duckdns.org:86/index.htm
    
    
• IBM S/390 z/Architecture Mainframe Server Ubuntu 18 s390x Operating System
  • A Hercules Hyperion emulated IBM S/390 Mainframe running on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed host. The S/390 mainframe itself runs Ubuntu 18 s390x Bionic Beaver port for S/390.
  • More information about this server: Bionic Beaver on z/Architecture: My Personal Mainframe IBM S/390 running Ubuntu 18 Linux on Hercules on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Also, here is what IBM say in their archives about S/390 Parallel Enterprise Server.
  • Web Server: http://sanyal.duckdns.org:91/
    
    
• NetBSD VAX
  • A SIMH-emulated MicroVAX 3900 running NetBSD/VAX 8 operating system. This is the only SIMH for Win-32 instance running under Windows; all other SIMH instances in SANYALnet Labs run on Linux variations.
  • Web Server: http://sanyal.duckdns.org:92/
    
    
• OpenBSD VAX
  • A SIMH-emulated MicroVAX 3900 running OpenBSD/VAX 5.8 operating system. The OpenBSD/vax port was discontinued after the 5.9 release.
  • Web Server: http://sanyal.duckdns.org:93/
    
    
• 4.3BSD VAX
  • A SIMH-emulated MicroVAX 3900 running Quasijarus release of the ancient 4.3BSD VAX operating system. "Quasijarus is a project of the International Free Computing Task Force (IFCTF) led by Michael Sokolov to indefinitely continue the maintenance, support, and further development of the classic line of Berkeley UNIX on the classic VAX hardware." - official Quasijarus web page.
    
    
• AlphaLinux DEC AlphaServer ES40 Gentoo Linux Alpha Operating System
  • An emulated Digital AlphaServer ES40 running Gentoo Linux for Alpha. Gentoo Linux for Alpha is still maintained and provides a modern Linux distribution for the legendary Alpha architecture. Installing it on an emulated AlphaServer is not trivial, I am grateful for the help from Astr0baby who did the hard work while also documenting it here and here.
    
    
• Sun Solaris 2.6 for SPARC on SPARCstation-5
  • A SPARCstation-5 running Sun Solaris 2.6 SPARC, emulated using QEMU hypervisor on Linux.
    
    
• Debian-4 Etch for SPARC on SPARCstation-5
  • A SPARCstation-5 running Debian 4 "Etch" for SPARC, emulated using QEMU hypervisor on Linux.
    
    
• OpenBSD SPARC 64 bit on UltraSPARC-1 / Sun-4U
  • A Sun-4U (UltraSPARC-1) workstation running OpenBSD SPARC 64 bit operating system, emulated using QEMU on Linux.
    
    
• Digital Ultrix on DECstation 5000/200
  • This is a virtual DECstation 5000/200 emulated by the gxemul emulator. The DECstation 5000/200 runs DEC Ultrix operating system.
    
    
• Multics MR12.6e on Honeywell 6180 (DPS8M)
  • This is a very special virtual Honeywell 6180 running the pioneering MULTICS operating system under a custom 32-bit Linux build of the DPS8M emulator received with thanks from Multician Jeffrey Johnson. Among numerous other things, Jeffrey runs the public Multics site ban.ai, and with wizardry made MULTICS available over DECnet in the HECnet network via the DECnet node BANAI.
  • The Multics system in SANYALnet Labs can also be accessed from HECnet by SET HOST FEDACH and using MULTICS/MULTICS credentials (this is a childish ctermd login script). Something like this happens:

    $ set host fedach
    CTERM Version 1.0.6
    DECnet for Linux
    
    fedach login: multics
    Password:
    Last login: Mon Oct 22 20:59:27 UTC 2018 on pts/3
    Welcome to Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.13.0-164-generic i686)
    ...
    ...
    Trying 127.0.0.1...
    Connected to localhost.
    Escape character is 'off'.
    HSLA Port (d.h000,d.h001,d.h002,d.h003,d.h004,d.h005,d.h006,d.h007,d.h008,d.h00
    9,d.h010,d.h011,d.h012,d.h013,d.h014,d.h015,d.h016,d.h017,d.h018,d.h019,d.h020,
    d.h021,d.h022,d.h023,d.h024,d.h025,d.h026,d.h027,d.h028,d.h029,d.h030,d.h031)?
    Attached to line d.h000
    
    Channel d.h000)
    
    logout
    hangup
    
    %REM-S-END, control returned to node IMPVAX::
    

    
    
    
• SUN 3 NetBSD 1.6 Operating System (NetBSD/Sun3 Amnesiac)
  • This is a virtual emulated SUN 3 workstation running NetBSD/Sun3 Amnesiac 1.6, running under the TME (The Machine Emulator) hypervisor. I am grateful to Mark Abene who pointed me to this great little emulator and instructions on how to install NetBSD on a SUN 3 at the HECnet mailing list.
    
    
• SanyalCraft Minecraft Server
  • Point your Minecraft client to SANYALcraft Minecraft server: sanyal.duckdns.org:25565
    
  • This server also hosts Pandora FMS community edition for monitoring my hobbyist computer networks at http://sanyal.duckdns.org:84/
    
    
• Free Public NTP stratum-2 time servers participating in the NTP Pool Project
  • Server Status
  
  These NTP time servers can be used in "server" configuration lines in your ntp.conf. They are stratum-2 clock sources:
  
  • sanyal.duckdns.org
  • sanyalnet-cloud-vps.freeddns.org
  • sanyalnet-cloud-vps2.freeddns.org
  • sanyalnet-cloud-vps3.freeddns.org
  • sanyalnet-cloud-vps4.duckdns.org
    
    
• Free Public Ad+Malware+Ransomware Blocking Recursive DNS Servers
  • sanyalnet-cloud-vps.freeddns.org
  • sanyalnet-cloudvps2.freeddns.org
    
    
• Free Public Malware, Trojan, Botnet, C&C etc. Blocklists
  
  These blocklists can be used on your internet gateway routers and security firewalls. I use them with pfBlockerNG running on my pfSense virtual router/firewall/home internet security gateway.
  
  
  • malware IP blocklist
  • C&C trojan (Mirai etc.) IP blocklist
  • Advertising and Malware DNS domain blocklist (use with dnsmasq)
    
    
• WBRi Radio Stream
  • I used to run Washington Bangla Radio on Internet (WBRi) and an associated south-Asian entertainment news portal that reached alexa rank of under 14K at it's peak, making it more popular than many mainstream newspapers in India. Along the way I became an expert in streaming technologies, SEO, video and audio editing and production, photography and image manipulation, LAMP-based high-performance web servers and internals of the Drupal CMS, as well as the Zencart online shopping application which I modified for digital audio sales and downloads way before iTunes became popular. The service still exists and is run by a buddy now.
    
    
• Anonymous FTP (retro-computing stuff)
  • ftp://sanyal.duckdns.org/
    
    
• My website
  • http://supratim.sanyal.org
    
    
• SDF Freeshell
  • http://tuklusan.decsystem.org (you are here)
    
    
• SETI@HOME / LHC@HOME BOINC Stats
  • SETI@HOME and LHC@HOME Boinc Stats
  • LHC@HOME User of the Day Stats
    
    
• Blog
  • Supratim Sanyal's Computing Blog | Wandering Digital Wastelands as a Geek
    
    

Sinclair ZX Spectrum stuff

• Free Online Sinclair ZX Spectrum Emulators, etc.
  • 
    JSSpeccy hosted by my Solaris 11.3 node
  • Jan Bobrowski's Qaop/JS HTML5 ZX Spectrum Emulator
  • World of Spectrum June 2017 Mirror (86.4GB zip file!)
  • Spectrum Computing
  • Or RDP (Microsoft Remote Desktop) straight to sanyal.duckdns.org
    
    

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Contact

• DECnet VMS MAIL: QCOCAL::SANYAL from HECnet
• Internet Email: qcocal::sanyal <at> mim.update.uu.se, tuklusan <at> sdf.org or web-form at https://goo.gl/FqzyBW
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