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<p>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:</p>
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<p><tt>slogin@neptune:~$ sudo latcp -d -l -v<br>
<br>
Service Name: NEPTUNE<br>
Service Status: Available<br>
Service Ident: Linux 5.4.0-42-generic<br>
<br>
Node Name Status Rating Identification<br>
NEPTUNE Reachable 10 Linux 5.4.0-42-generic<br>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
<br>
Service Name: TOMMYT<br>
Service Status: Available<br>
Service Ident: TOMMYT, PANDA TOPS-20 Monitor 7.1(21740)-5<br>
<br>
Node Name Status Rating Identification<br>
TOMMYT Reachable 1 TOMMYT, PANDA TOPS-20
Monitor 7.1(21740)-5<br>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
<br>
Service Name: VENTI2<br>
Service Status: Available<br>
Service Ident: VENTI2, PANDA TOPS-20 Monitor 7.1(21742)-5<br>
<br>
Node Name Status Rating Identification<br>
VENTI2 Reachable 1 VENTI2, PANDA TOPS-20
Monitor 7.1(21742)-5<br>
----------------------------------</tt><br>
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<p>The 20's only seem to know about the Ubuntu host:</p>
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<p><font face="monospace">LCP>shoW serVER /alL <br>
LCP></font></p>
<p><font face="monospace">19:43:26 [LCP] -- Summary of All
Servers --<br>
<tt><br>
</tt><tt>Server Name(Number): NEPTUNE(0) Address:
6C-4B-90-3A-42-73</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>LCP></tt></font></p>
<p><font face="monospace"><tt>LCP>shoW servER NEPTUNE</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>LCP></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>19:41:10 [LCP] -- Information About Server
NEPTUNE --</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Server Number: 0</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Server Location: LATD for Linux</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Server Type: VAX/VMS</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Ethernet Address: 6C-4B-90-3A-42-73</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Server Status: Disconnected</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Max Slots: 254</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Data Link Size: 1500</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Circuit Timer(ms): 80</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Keep-alive Timer(s): 20</tt></font></p>
<p><font face="monospace"><tt>LCP>shoW couNTERS /serVER:NEPTUNE</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>LCP></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>19:40:36 [LCP] -- Counters for Server NEPTUNE
--</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Messages received: 2</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Messages transmitted: 1</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Messages retransmitted: 0</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Sequence errors received: 0</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Illegal messages received: 0</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Illegal slots received: 0</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Resource failures: 0</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>LCP></tt></font></p>
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<p>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)<br>
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<p>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</p>
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<p>slogin@neptune:~$ llogin neptune<br>
Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS<br>
neptune login: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS<br>
neptune login:<br>
<br>
neptune login:
sllllooooggggiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii<br>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>I haven't looked at the 20's because I've been occupied fixing
bugs of more direct concern to me.</p>
<p>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.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/26/21 3:11 PM, John Forecast
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<div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family:
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DECnet/Python on Ubuntu 21.10 system and was
successfully connected to HECnet.<span
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<div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family:
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about DECnet/Python. I choose that because it support
virtual circuits like Multinet over TCP, etc..<span
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<div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family:
Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I can’t find any apps
(programs) to support DECnet/Python like login, set
host, dir, etc. Only DECnet for Linux has programs.<o:p
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<div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family:
Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Does DECnet for Raspberry
Pi work with Ubuntu 21.10 (Linux 5.13 for x86)? <o:p
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I’ve never tried Ubuntu but I have built DECnet for Raspberry Pi
on an older version of Debian x86 without any problems. My
suggestion would be to try it. Due to family medical issues I
will be unable to check it out until December at the earliest.</div>
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