11 Feb
2016
11 Feb
'16
7:59 p.m.
I tried to get DECnet for Linux to work quite some time ago, but I couldn't
work out how to make it work, and in the end I gave up. It was one of the
reasons why I decided to write my own simple one that would run on pretty
much anything. I suppose it might be nice to mess around in a kernel, not
done that before, but I am not ready to say that I would try.
Regards
Rob
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-
hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Dave McGuire
Sent: 10 February 2016 23:44
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] VMS, linux and Hec/DEC net
Unfortunately, DECnet for Linux is no longer maintained, as of maybe a
year
ago. It still mostly works, but you'd be better
off setting up an earlier
release
of Linux to run it on. I believe the DECnet stack
itself has stopped
working
due to kernel interface changes in the past year or
so. LAT, however,
still
works great.
It'd be wonderful if someone were to pick it up and maintain it. It'd
take
some hacking, but not much...it has only been out of
sync with the kernel
for
maybe a year. I don't have time to do it, but
I'd put up a few bucks for
someone to pick it up.
-Dave
On 02/10/2016 06:09 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> I don't know the status, state, or location of such software. I don't
> run DECnet on Linux myself.
>
> Johnny
>
> On 2016-02-11 00:07, Bill Cunningham wrote:
>> Is there software needed for decnet phase iv on linux?
>> http://blinkenbone.com/decnet/decnet-on-ubuntu-setup
>> There's a page to convert between MAC and nodes.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> *From:* Johnny Billquist <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>
>> *To:* hecnet at Update.UU.SE <mailto:hecnet at Update.UU.SE>
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 10, 2016 5:51 PM
>> *Subject:* Re: [HECnet] VMS, linux and Hec/DEC net
>>
>> Did a brief look at it looks like it would give you some idea of
>> how to
>> use DECnet on Linux, yes.
>>
>> Johnny
>>
>> On 2016-02-10 23:41, Bill Cunningham wrote:
>> > Johnny,
>> > Does this page pretty well or these two pages speak of how to
use
linux
and VMS for HECnet. I'm not really wanting to
jumo into anything
especially concerning VMS. But I thought I'd inquire.
http://blinkenbone.com/decnet/decnet-on-a-vax
http://blinkenbone.com/decnet/decnet-on-a-vax
Bill
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