6 Nov
2020
6 Nov
'20
8:47 p.m.
On Nov 6, 2020, at 10:20 AM, Paul Koning
<paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Nov 6, 2020, at 3:55 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>
> On 2020-11-06 02:55, Paul Koning wrote:
>>> On Jun 29, 2020, at 8:45 PM, John Forecast <john at forecast.name>
wrote:
>>>
>>> Recently I have found, and fixed, a number of bugs in the DECnet for Linux
kernel module. Some of
>>> these bugs may be relevant for members of this mailing list who are using
DECnet for Linux,
>>> especially on a Raspberry Pi.
>> I've spent a bit of time with John's latest code to see how it works on
other platforms.
>> The answer is "quite nicely". I dropped his changed files into a
Fedora Core 32 (the latest release, as of a couple of weeks ago anyway) sources, and built
their 5.8.17 kernel with DECnet enabled, for 64-bit x86.
>> It works, no major problems seen. This is the endnode; I haven't tried a
router yet.
>> Very nice.
>
I?ve never even built the router version of the code. It is marked ?experimental? in Linux
config.
I had serious
problems using it to talk to RSX in the past (many years ago). Have you tried accessing in
both directions between an RSX node and that? It might be it has been improved a lot since
I tried, but I am a little concerned that it's mostly just been tested against VMS.
You're right, the initial testing was against VMS, but it wasn't all that long
after that I spent a bunch of time getting it to work better with others. For example,
that's why the "old remote terminal protocol" is implemented in Linux.
Just tried some tests.
RSX to Linux: NCP works, LOOP NOD (mirror) works, SET HOST works. DAP doesn't, it
gets "Tasks out of synchronization".
Linux to RSX: mirror works, cterm works, dap works.
RSTS to Linux: NCP works, LOOP NOD works, SET HOST works. DAP fails with a message
indicating an Interrupt message is mishandled. (DAP is one of the few protocols that uses
interrupts.)
Linux to RSTS: mirror works, cterm is not supported by RSTS, "sethost"
doesn't work because the connect fails in a way that doesn't reach the check for
"no such object" status. DAP partly works, but the directory listing only shows
the last file rather than all of them.
Haven't tried VMS yet, the VMS system I have access to seems to be down right now.
paul
John.