29 Feb
2016
29 Feb
'16
2:47 p.m.
Yes, Paul Koning, who is on this list I think.
Regards
Rob
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at update.uu.se [mailto:owner-hecnet at update.uu.se]
On Behalf Of Sampsa Laine
Sent: 29 February 2016 11:33
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] User mode DECnet for Linux
Didn?t someone here implement a DECNET stack in Python recently?
Sampsa
On 29 Feb 2016, at 14:29, Mark Wickens <mark
at wickensonline.co.uk>
wrote:
Ah this is a shame - I would have thought that given the maturity of the
code
maintaining maybe wasn't so much a technical as a time consuming
occupation?
I wonder if we have the resources in the HECnet
community to keep this
going? Has this subject come up before and passed me by?
Are there any other unix alternative other than Digital Unix/tru64?
Cheers, Mark.
On 29/02/16 10:57, Sampsa Laine wrote:
> Well, no, not as I understand it...
>
> The DECNET for Linux guys stopped working on the code a while back, the
kernel
devs then dropped the code as well and none of it is maintained.
>
> I think the latest version of Ubuntu Server that it runs on is like 12.04,
which is ANCIENT.
>
> Sampsa
>
>
>
>> On 29 Feb 2016, at 13:24, Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk>
wrote:
>>
>> Back in the day I used custom kernel configurations for DECnet under
linux.
>> Am I right in thinking that the kernel
drivers have been pulled and
support is now in user land?
>>>
>>> Thanks, Mark.
>
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