[HECnet] Intermittent Connection with PyDECnet?

On Mar 10, 2020, at 5:18 PM, David Moylan <djm at wiz.net.au> wrote: I?m all for backwards compatibility, however the /dev/net/tun interface has been in linux since the 2.6 days. A quick google shows that people back in 2010 have been using it, and browsing on kernel.org for the oldest archived kernel entry of 2.6.11 shows code examples for /dev/net/tun dated 2005. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/tree/Docum… I think the starting date for support of /dev/net/tun is earlier than that of the discontinuation of support for /dev/tapx. Given that the whole goal of pyDECnet is to permit usage of decnet on more modern environments, I think having code that supports back to 2005 is a pretty solid move.