[HECnet] Multinet Tunnel Connections to SG1::

[Jordi Guillaumes i Pons]

Hi list. I'll introduce myself later when I get a proper keyboard to type (right now I'm typing on an iPhone while riding a bus to my workplace...). I' the proud manager for the new HECnet area 7.

El 07/06/2012, a les 3:02, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> va escriure:

On 06/06/2012 08:59 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2012-06-07 02:10, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 06/06/2012 06:11 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
By the way, as a warning...
I seem to remember that DECnet support now have been dropped from Linux.
So it might not be in there anymore, if you look at recent versions.

It's still there, at least in the new Ubuntu version (12.04). The routing support is not compiled in (it's marked as experimental) so you need to build the kernel if you want to try to use it as a router. I'm pretty sure it's a way to compile just de decnet modules instead of rebuilding all the kernel, but I don't know how to do it (I tried the obvious way and failed).

I planned to use Linux as my area route. It does not work. If you configure it as a level 2 router it generates corrupted packets (they have 4 additional bytes at the header, it looks like it gets wrong some offset so it should be potentially easy to fix). It SEEMS to work as level 1 router and I was using it to link together multiple tap virtual devices... until I discovered the VDE support in the 3.9 version of SIMH and started using it to have all my emulated toys in the same Ethernet segment as all the real iron (VDE is cool, I recommend you to try it :)).




  Well, we'll either have to talk her into re-owning it (Hi Chrissie!
8-)) or someone else will have to take up its maintenance.   At least
eventually, when someone breaks the kernel networking APIs again.

                          -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA

Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
Barcelona - Catalunya - Europa
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