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From: Eugenie Staicut <estaicut@roearn.ici.ro> To: joscott@igc.apc.org, sadowsky@nyu.edu, randy@psg.com, teun@kub.nl, sbetsing@maroon.tc.umn.edu, ruth@gmuvax.bitnet, pasztor@aszi.sztaki.hu, maschtera@edvz.uni-linz.ac.at, Marten.Sterpa@ripe.net, jqs@ssrg-ipx-7.stanford.edu, jsq@tic.com, isoc@nri.reston.va.us, gharris@mail.loc.gov, deswarte@loas.fr, Daniel.Karrenberg@ripe.net, boss@sunet.se, Piet.Beertema@mcsun.eu.net, a79@taunivm.tau.ac.il, Wilfried.Woeber@cc.univie.ac.at, Gerhard.Winkler@cc.univie.ac.at, Ewald.Jenisch@cc.univie.ac.at, z00ehr01@awiuni11.bitnet, z00hsr01@vm.univie.ac.at, grange@earncc.earn.net, hi@earncc.earn.net, cpbrauch@sorosny.org, goldstein@nsf.gov, landweber@cs.wisc.edu Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 00:27:51 +0200 RESEARCH AND HIGHER EDUCATION NETWORKING IN ROMANIA EARN/BITNET and Internet Access - Present Status Dr. Eugenie Staicut <estaicut@roearn.ici.ro> March 17, 1994 STARTING OF RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC NETWORKING IN ROMANIA ROEARN node was put into operation in December 1992 as an EARN/BITNET node. It is connected by a leased line (9600 bps, with JNET running over TCP/IP protocol) to AEARN node in Vienna. Also, ROEARN node is connected to Internet starting from the begining of March 1993. It has the address roearn.ici.ro. This represented the starting of research and higher education networking in Romania. The .ro top level domain was registed to NIC for Internet access and Internet routing is provided by NSFnet. The following hosts are at present running as .ro nameserver: NS.ICI.RO 192.162.16.21 PYTHIA.EDVZ.UNIVIE.AC.AT 131.130.1.11 NS.EU.NET 192.16.202.11 SUNIC.SUNET.SE 192.36.125.2 NS.UU.NET 137.39.1.3 AOS.BRL.MIL 128.63.4.82, 26.3.0.29, 192.5.25.82 NS.EUNET.CO.AT 192.92.138.35 COMMUNITIES BEING SERVED Services provided through the EARN/BITNET and Internet networks give the Romanian users the possibility to communicate with scientists from other countries in their field of interest, covering all kind of academic audiences and subjects: sciences, technology, human sciences, medicine, economics and also general interest worldwide news. Communities being served include: - Research and Development Institutes; - Higher Educatioan Universities; - Libraries; - Government and non-government institutions linked to academic and research activity. INTERNATIONAL LINKS At present there are three international lines connecting Romania to Europe: - One leased line (9.6 kbits/s) between Bucharest and Vienna which carries both EARN and Internet traffic, the international gateway node being installed at Research Institute for Informatics; - One leased line (9.6 kbits/s) between Bucharest and Amsterdam, connecting Research Institute for Informatics in Bucharest (a COSINE node) to Europanet, carring X25 traffic at present, but which ix planned to be upgraded in future to carry also tcp/ip traffic; - One leased line (9.6 kbits/s) connecting Politechnica University of Bucharest to DFN Berlin; plans exist to switch this line to Europanet node installed at Research Institute for Informatics. This line carries tcp/ip traffic over X25. The Bucharest-Vienna is at present very loaded. Some traffic statistics for this line are included in the following status report. After the link to Amsterdam is upgraded to tcp/ip, the traffic will be splitted between the lines connecting Vienna and Amsterdam. Investigations are being made to upgrade the international link to Vienna to 64/128 kbit/s. Unfortunately the Romanian PTT cannot provide at present higher speeds. Satellite link is the only communication media available at present. EARN/BITNET NODES IN ROMANIA There are at present 6 EARN nodes in Romania: 1. ROEARN : Research Institute for Informatics, Bucharest; National EARN gateway for Romania, connected by leased line (9600 bits/s) to AEARN node in Vienna; 2. ROIFA : Institute for Atomic Physics, Bucharest, (leased line, 9600 bits/s); 3. ROIPB : Polytechnical Institute of Bucharest, (leased line, 9600 bits/s); 4. CEPES : Centre European Pour l'Enseignement Superior of UNESCO, Bucharest, (leased line, 9600 bits/s); 5. ROUTT : Technical University of Timisoara, (switched line, 2400 bits/s); 6. ROUGAL : "Dunarea de Jos" University, Galati (switced line, 2400 bits/s); INSTITUTIONS WITH INTERNET CONNECTIVITY There are at present 7 institutions wchich provide servers with Internet connectivity by leased or dial-up lines using the node installed at Research Institute for Informatics, Bucharest. The following institutions have Internet connectivity by Bucharest - Vienna line: 1. Research Institute for Informatics, Bucharest, (ici.ro subdomain) which provides two servers for public access to users spreaded throughout the country and about 8 servers (DEC, SUN, IBM RISC 6000, PC/LINUX machines) for access to the institute personnel; 2. University of Pitesti (upit.ro subdomain), providing an UNIX server for access to university staff, students and other users in Pitesti area; 3. Technical University of Timisoara (utt.ro subdomain) providing several servers (DEC and SUN machines) for access to university staff and students; 4. Microtechnology Institute of Romanian Academy (imt.ro subdomain) providing several SUN servers for access to the institute personnel; 5. Military Technical University, Bucharest (atm.ro subdomain) providing a PC/486/LINUX server for access to the university personnel and students; 6. Intercomp SRL (ic.ro subdomain) providing a SUN server for access to the the institution personnel. 7. Center for Education in Informatics, Bucharest, (cpi.ro subdomain) providing several PC/486/LINUX servers for use by the center personnel and students. Several other (about 110) institutions have tcp/ip access by dialup lines using node names in the ici.ro subdomain. Several institutions from Moldova Republic (CRI, Chisinau University, Moldova Academy) have also diap-up access to Internet. A list of the institutions with dial-up access and the corresponding number of users is presented in the Appendix 1. The list is changing almost everyday, so it may be incomplete. The software for DECROUTER 250 which at present is being used for connecting the EARN nodes to ROEARN node has already been updated to support tcp/ip protocol, so some of the present EARN nodes (ROIFA, ROIPB, ROUGAL) and ROIMAR are in the process to be connected to Internet. Plans exist for connecting other institutions to Internet in the near future: 1. University for Economical Studies, Bucharest; 2. University of Medicine, Bucharest; 3. "A. I. Cuza" University, Iasi; 4. Power Distribution Dispatcher, Bucharest; 5. University of Brasov; 6. Technical University of Cluj; 7. Central University Library, Bucharest. University Polytechnica of Bucharest (pub.ro subdomain) and University of Bucharest (unibuc.ro subdomain) are connected to Internet using the leased line between Bucharest and Berlin. OTHER TYPES OF NODES Some users have computers with DECNET software but they do not have EARN/BITNET or Internet software. Some sollutions were used to connect such users to ROEARN node by DECNET and then make ROEARN act as a gateway to allow DECNET nodes to have e-mail services to EARN/BITNET and Internet. Such a node is ROIMAR installed at Mathematical Institute of Romanian Academy, Bucharest. ROIMAR is connected to ROEARN node by leased line, 9600 bits/s using SMTP mail protocol over DECNET and MX mailer on VAX/VMS machines. E-mails can be sent from Internet to this node using the address imar.ro. USER SERVICES SUPPORTED - exchanging electronic mail and files, - distribution lists; - interactive messages, - remote login; - file server; - Bitnet/Internet e-mail gateways; - acces to data bases; - access to public domain and shareware software; - access to network information services (archie, gopher, wais, www). HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE CONFIGURATIONS EARN nodes are based on Digital equipment and contain VAX machines, DECWAN Routers, DEC Terminal Servers, PC Routers and PC stations. Internet nodes are based on DEC, SUN, IBM RISC 6000, and PC/486, mainly using UNIX operating systems. The project has been financed by Ministry of Research and Technology and Romanian National Commission for Informatics. The hardware and software for ROEARN gateway has been donated by Digital Equipment France - CDG. The hardware and software for ROIFA node has been financed by Mellon Foundation. The ICI node is the central routing node for EARN traffic for Romania, built on: - a Micro Vax 3100/20 with 20 MB RAM, 600 MB hard disk, Ethernet interface, 4 asynchrounous serial interfaces; - a DECRouter 250 with 8 synchronous/asynchronous lines allowing the connection of 8 other nodes (ROIFA, ROIPB, ROUTT, ROIMAR, CEPES, etc.) in Bucharest and in the country by leased and/or dial-up lines, using DDCMP protocol; - a PC Router for connection with EARN node in Vienna through a 9600 bps leased line using TCP/IP protocol; - a DEC Server 90 with 8 asynchronous lines allowing the connection of 8 terminals; - Software: VMS, DECNET, VAX, PSI, VMS Ultrix Connection, JNET, KERMIT and MX Mailer; - a PC486/UNIX system, with Internet connection. NUMBER OF USERS =============== The number of users for each node is presented in the following table. +--------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ | |Ap93|Ma93|Ju93|Ju93|Au93|Se93|Oc93|No93|De93|Ja94| +--------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ | ROEARN | 305| 325| 345| 395| 460| 490| 520| 527| 550| 555| | ROIFA | 390| 407| 407| 420| 436| 455| 465| 470| 458| 465| | ROIPB | 240| 260| 260| 260| 260| 280| 300| 310| 310| 310| | ROUTT | 27| 27| 27| 27| 27| 27| 27| 27| 27| 27| | ROIMAR | 340| 358| 358| 370| 383| 389| 396| 400| 400| 400| | CEPES | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12| 15| 15| 15| | ROUGAL | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4| |--------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ | Total |1302|1377|1397|1472|1566|1641|1720|1749|1760|1776| +--------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ TRAFFIC STATISTICS ================== The total traffic on Bucharest-Vienna international line and on national lines is presented in the following table. =================================================================== |Month | Number of records | Number of bytes for Internet | | | for | traffic | | | EARN/BITNET | (only e-mail, not including ftp| | | nodes | and telnet sessions) | | |------------+--------------|--------------------------------+ | | National | International| National | International | |------|------------+--------------|--------------+-----------------+ |DEC 92| 1 324 | 385 789 | - | - | |------|------------+--------------|--------------+-----------------+ |JAN 93| 21 237 | 689 325 | - | - | |------|------------+--------------|--------------+-----------------+ |FEB 93| 531 813 | 1 825 901 | - | - | |------|------------+--------------|--------------+-----------------+ |MAR 93| 723 750 | 2 952 452 | - | - | |------|------------+--------------|--------------+-----------------+ |APR 93| 625 251 | 2 747 208 | 26 655 233 | 266 503 253 | |------|------------|--------------|--------------+-----------------+ |MAI 93| 800 354 | 3 311 303 | 23 457 396 | 229 487 979 | |------|------------|--------------|--------------+-----------------+ |JUN 93| 935 437 | 4 560 637 | 14 768 976 | 159 658 044 | |------|------------|--------------|--------------+-----------------+ |JUL 93| 937 328 | 4 129 947 | 24 354 293 | 245 060 028 | |------|------------|--------------|--------------+-----------------+ |AUG 93| 621 207 | 2 789 965 | 25 324 476 | 262 458 044 | |------|------------|--------------|--------------+-----------------+ |SEP 93| 982 305 | 4 480 660 | 24 978 954 | 247 615 807 | |------|------------|--------------|--------------+-----------------+ |OCT 93| 937 863 | 5 663 720 | 29 019 482 | 300 415 110 | |------|------------|--------------|--------------+-----------------+ |NOV 93| 700 453 | 4 743 926 | 25 248 532 | 340 521 901 | |------|------------|--------------|--------------+-----------------+ |DEC 93| 867 129 | 5 046 726 | 28 910 782 | 371 232 879 | |------|------------|--------------|--------------+-----------------+ |JAN 94| 672 320 | 4 820 358 | 24 109 561 | 351 435 511 | ===================================================================
