Hey folks, would anyone here happen to have the firmware files for
the Emulex Performance 2500 and Performance 4000 LAT terminal servers?
I really regret not having snagged a copy of that stuff when I
managed a bunch of those in the early 1990s. Wasn't thinking ahead I guess.
Thanks,
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
I’m trying to get mail working from my latest Linux DECnet release to OopenVMS with the intention of eventually upgrading to the mail11v3 protocol. I’m running an up to date version of VAX OpenVMS V7.3 with all patches I’ve found on a recent download of OpenSimh on a really slow ARM system. The system has a default DECnet account as well as a MAIL$SERVER account. Whenever I try to send e-mail, the connection is rejected with a “No such user” error:
Auditable event: Network login failure
Event time: 29-NOV-2023 10:14:32.96
PID: 00000098
Process name: MAIL_8198
Username: DECNET
Remote node id: 42186 (41.202)
Remote username: Linux0000
Status: %LOGIN-F-NOSUCHUSER, no such user
I also get the same rejection error if I try to connect to FAL with no access control information. However, if I connect to FAL using the explicit nonpriviledged userid/password returned by NCP, everything works as expected.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
John.
Version 5.3(248)-5 incorporates additional features, enhancements and
fixes since the minor release of 5.3(235)-5, in June of this year
(11-Jun-2023).These are as follows and can be identified in the code
with the edit number as the prefix of a comment.
[236] Implement /FORKLESS connections for DECnet NRT’s
[237] Implement the RETURN keyword to stop processing a TAKE file
[238] Enhanced NRT disconnect messages
[239] Use .HPTOD (High Precision Time of Day) if the monitor has it
HPTIM% .HPTOD
[240] When logging to a disk file, display the number of bytes written
[241] Handle potential case of incorrect data being sent for CWD
[242] ECHO /TRANSACTION /DEBUG /SESSION Switches
[243] Fix off by one error which appended NUL characters in packets
[244] Fix server FINISH does not close all logs
[245] Rewrite MOVSTU to use EXTEND instead of loop
[246] Additional C escape sequences: \O and \U
[247] Rewrite IAC handling to use EXTEND instead of loop
[248] Fix incorrect string lengths being returned by C constant
expansion
Kermit-20-Testing-Battery-5.3(248)-5 Updates and new Batch Tests
K20DPD: Updated Kermit-20 Packet Decoding Example
K20NRV: Updated Kermit-20 Server functions via Tops-20 DECnet NRT to
local host
K20NRT: Updated Kermit-20 Server functions via Tops-20 DECnet NRT to
remote host
K20DPD: Updated Kermit-20 Packet Decoding Example
K20P8R: New Regression test against Kermit-20 4.2(174) [2-May-85] 8
bit files with parity
K20RDC: New Communications comparison Kermit-20 4.2(174) [2-May-85]
and 5.3(248)-5
K1036N: Kermit-10 36 bit Regression Tests via DECnet NRT
Updated Help
It is available for anonymous NFT from VENTI2:: in the K20MIT
sub-directory. The full announcement may be find in text format in:
VENTI2::TOMMYT:<OINKY.K20MIT.DOCUMENTATION>KERMIT-20_V5_3(248)-5-ANNOUNCEMENT.TXT.
Note that the left and right parenthesis will need to be quoted with a
Control-V. Alternatively, you can just grab the whole documentation
directory and have your local NFT do the naming.
Sometime around mid-2022 the Linux kernel developers decided to remove the DECnet code from the Linux
kernel. Kernel 6.0.x was the last release which included source code for a DECnet implementation. More
recently, there has been some discussion around removing the code from the Long Term Support kernels.
These changes mean that the repository I have been maintaining at
<https://github.com/JohnForecast/RaspbianDECnet> can no longer be installed on recent releases.
Over the past year or so, I have been working on a replacement for this repository with the following
characteristics:
- Designed to be built as an external kernel module
This simplifies and speeds up the installation since we no longer need to rebuild the entire
kernel.
- Can only be built as an ethernet endnode
Again this substantially simplifies the kernel code. The routing code was alway marked as
“experimental” and I never tried to get it running. If you need a DECnet router, pyDECnet or
Route20 are much better solutions.
- Minimize the use of Linux kernel frameworks
Many of the problems with keeping RaspbianDECnet running between Linux versions
were changes to the kernel framework APIs. By limiting the use of these APIs I am hoping
that the kernel module will need fewer changes to keep up with kernel changes. So far,
I have had to make one additional conditional code change at kernel 6.5 and that was in
the socket layer so all networking code would need to be changed.
In addition to a new kernel module there have been a number of changes to the userland code:
- What used to be “fal2” is now the default file access listener. The old “fal” is still available in the
“fal-old” directory
- What used to be “nml2” is now the default and only network management listener.
- There is now a subset implementation of “ncp” which is sufficient to support all of the requests
available from the Linux network management listener. It does implement a “tell” prefix so all
of these commands may be issued to remote systems. In addition, it implements
“ncp copy known nodes from <node name/address>” to update the local node name database.
- The new kernel module now supports node counters as defined in the Network Management
Specification and the ncp/nml combination are able to display and zero them.
- The installation procedure is no longer targeted solely at Raspberry Pi releases. The current
procedure supports installation on systems derived from Debian or Fedora although only a
limited number of distributions have been tested (see README.DECnet).
This new release is available at:
<https://github.com/JohnForecast/LinuxDECnet>
and should be considered to be in Beta test at this time. See README.DECnet in the top level directory
for more information and installation instructions.
Hey folks. I've gotten a Pro380 running at LSSM, and have just
gotten a DECNA board installed. Can anyone point me to any docs for
Pro/DECnet? I don't see much online. I'd like to get it talking to the
rest of the DECnet machines at the museum and on HECnet. And, ideally,
LAT if possible.
Thanks,
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Hi Everyone,
To everyone that has a GRE tunnel to A12RTR, the IP address has changed!
It is now 103.46.213.236, alternatively you can also use either of the
following names:
* tim.sneddon.id.au
* cmkrnl.io
There has been some disruption to my IPv6 config too, but I am
investigating that.
Regards, Tim.
I just found out about this from Terry Kennedy.
A MOP server for RSTS/E, free to use:
https://www.glaver.org/ftp/tmk-software/mop-server/
Johnny
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Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt(a)softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
We could definitely make use of that! Can you spare it?
-Dave
On 9/2/23 06:38, Peter Lothberg wrote:
> Dave,
>
> Maybe you need a KS10 repair tool?
>
>
> -P
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire(a)neurotica.com>
> > To: "The Hobbyist DECnet mailing list" <hecnet(a)lists.dfupdate.se>
> > Sent: Monday, August 21, 2023 6:09:58 PM
> > Subject: [HECnet] Re: pssst...
>
> > Hahaaaa, thank you Fred! You really need to come back for a visit,
> > it has been a while. The guys and I have been very busy; we have a lot
> > more hardware up and running now.
> >
> > -Dave
> >
> > --
> > Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> > New Kensington, PA
> >
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
So Mark (Matlock) has been after me to get my HECnet connection up and running and me, being an ace procrastinator, has always said "Real Soon Now™", Mark.
I might actually have time to do it as I'm on vacation for a week and a half. Despite the heat I could set something up. My question is how do I set it up. I have a Mac Mini in Las Vegas running VMWare ESXi. I have a VM (Aniketos) running Vyos for a firewall/router, another VM with an Nginx web server (Hermes - irrelevant just mentioned for completeness) and a really small (1 vCPU) Linux VM (Knight) which I want to run Paul's PyDECnet router for the world to connect to. From there I have an IPSec VPN to my Ubiquiti EdgeRouter 4 at home. How can I connect DECnet through the VPN to Knight from home? Is it even possible? Do I need or want GRE tunnels through the VPN?
Am I just making it too complicated and should I set up a PyDECnet router at home and go that way through my dynamic IP? It's possible I could set up an x86 OpenVMS machine as another VM
I'm thinking I need a PyDECnet router at home to collect all the DECnet traffic and shove it through the VPN to the PyDECnet router at the remote site and from there out into the internet to it's HECnet connection points. Does that make sense?
I tried drawing an ASCII picture but apparently I suck at that. Hopefully the description makes sense.
Hoping to get people's thoughts and if you're experienced in designing PyDECnet config files, any pointers are welcome.
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John H. Reinhardt
