[HECnet] DECnet/Python

I had 'a bit' of DECnet 'partly' running on an Ubuntu machine some time ago...? Well, not exactly: I only put LAT up because I wanted to test something and LAT isn't actually DECnet.? The Ubuntu host knows about everybody: slogin at neptune:~$ sudo latcp -d -l -v Service Name:??? NEPTUNE Service Status:? Available Service Ident:?? Linux 5.4.0-42-generic Node Name??????? Status????? Rating?? Identification NEPTUNE????????? Reachable?????? 10?? Linux 5.4.0-42-generic -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Service Name:??? TOMMYT Service Status:? Available Service Ident:?? TOMMYT, PANDA TOPS-20 Monitor 7.1(21740)-5 Node Name??????? Status????? Rating?? Identification TOMMYT?????????? Reachable??????? 1?? TOMMYT, PANDA TOPS-20 Monitor 7.1(21740)-5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Service Name:??? VENTI2 Service Status:? Available Service Ident:?? VENTI2, PANDA TOPS-20 Monitor 7.1(21742)-5 Node Name??????? Status????? Rating?? Identification VENTI2?????????? Reachable??????? 1?? VENTI2, PANDA TOPS-20 Monitor 7.1(21742)-5 ---------------------------------- The 20's only seem to know about the Ubuntu host: LCP>shoW serVER /alL LCP> 19:43:26 [LCP]??? ??? -- Summary of All Servers -- Server Name(Number): NEPTUNE(0) Address: 6C-4B-90-3A-42-73 LCP> LCP>shoW servER NEPTUNE LCP> 19:41:10 [LCP]??? ??? -- Information About Server NEPTUNE -- Server Number: 0 Server Location: LATD for Linux Server Type: VAX/VMS Ethernet Address: 6C-4B-90-3A-42-73 Server Status: Disconnected Max Slots: 254 Data Link Size: 1500 Circuit Timer(ms): 80 Keep-alive Timer(s): 20 LCP>shoW couNTERS /serVER:NEPTUNE LCP> 19:40:36 [LCP]??? ??? -- Counters for Server NEPTUNE -- Messages received: 2 Messages transmitted: 1 Messages retransmitted: 0 Sequence errors received: 0 Illegal messages received: 0 Illegal slots received: 0 Resource failures: 0 LCP> At some point, I'm fairly certain I remember them being able to 'see' each other.? I had a Pathworks CD-ROM for Windows 2000, but I can't find that and the Windows 2000 laptop I was using has caught a very bad cold (I.E., it won't boot) llogin operation has been erratic.? At one point it worked mostly to the 20's, but was not stable.? Now it fails in one of two ways:? 1) To a 20, it fails silently with no error message at all.? 2) To an Ubuntu host, it succeeds in connecting, and then starts spewing, viz slogin at neptune:~$ llogin neptune Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS neptune login: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS neptune login: neptune login: sllllooooggggiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii I've never complained about it because I wanted to investigate further and maybe either fix what I was doing wrong (undoubtedly the real problem) or at least fix it to give better error diagnostics. I haven't looked at the 20's because I've been occupied fixing bugs of more direct concern to me. If the 20 had a LAT client, I might look further, but I don't what the scale of that work would be.? Right now, I'm trying to stay away from big projects and just finish the ones that I have in flight. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 10/26/21 3:11 PM, John Forecast wrote: