13 May
2019
13 May
'19
9:34 a.m.
I've not had any success past 9.10.
I was thinking of rolling my own Linux From Scratch version with a suitably
old kernel.
On Sun, 12 May 2019, 22:55 Robert Armstrong, <bob at jfcl.com> wrote:
Can anybody tell me the secret to making DECnet work
on Ubuntu 14.04
(Precise)? Yes, this release is out of date but it?s the one I need to
use for other compatibility reasons.
I installed the dnet-common, dnet-progs and libdnet packages from the
standard repository. I configured the /etc/decnet.conf and dnet.conf files
(and I don?t care about decnet.proxy just yet). Nothing seems to give an
error, the dnetd daemon is running, and the MAC of my eth0 has been changed
to match my DECnet address. dneigh shows the correct adjacent routing node
on the network.
But nothing can communicate. All the DECnet commands (sethost, dnping,
etc) give ?socket: no such device? errors, and all the other DECnet
machines on the network think the Linux host is unavailable.
I seem to remember that there was some problem with the DECnet startup
with upstart, but I don?t remember the details and Google isn?t being
helpful today.
Thanks,
Bob