[HECnet] Multinet Tunnel Connections to SG1::

[Mark Benson]

On 7 Jun 2012, at 13:44, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
<jg at jordi.guillaumes.name> wrote:


If I've understood it correctly, the idea is to replace the (dying) kernel support for DECNet under linux by userland code, so it the current module dies definitely due to kernel ABI changes we could still use decnet in the Linux boxes.

As Johnny pointed out, some root access is required for a daemon to
play with the ethernet but with that in place the rest would be
userland, yes. The key is no kernel module or kernel support is
necessary because it's going away.

I'd add as an additional benefit that moving decnet out of the kernel would make possible to port it to other unix flavours, like the BSDs and Mac OSX.

That was also part of my modus operandi. It would port to prettymuch
and OS that supports libpcap and MAC address spoofing (possibly
Windows?).

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