[HECnet] Multinet Tunnel Connections to SG1::

[Johnny Billquist]

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.

    Huh?   Nope, works fine here, on a two-week-old Mint installation.
(Mint is Ubuntu with Canonical's bad decisions un-done)

Snip from 2.6-33 release notes:
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commit f8b55f251012e104093e105483c45c5d85ad3040
Author: Christine Caulfield <christine.caulfield at googlemail.com>
Date:     Thu Feb 18 11:33:13 2010 +0000

      Orphan DECnet

      Due to lack of time, space, motivation, hardware and probably expertise,
      I have reluctantly decided to orphan the DECnet code in the kernel.

      Judging by the deafening silence on the linux-decnet mailing list I
      suspect it's either not being used anyway, or the few people that are
      using it are happy with their older kernels.

      Signed-off-by: Christine Caulfield <christine.caulfield at googlemail.com>
      Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
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I guess the code might still be in there, but there is even less guarantee (if such a thing is possible in an open source project) that it works.

Chrissie is on HECnet, so she can expand more on the current status, I guess.

I've also had less than stellar results from trying to talk from Linux
to RSX. So it might not work absolutely right under all conditions.
Developers mostly (it not only) had VMS machines to test against...

    I've had similar results talking to RSTS/E DECnet.   From the little
bits of old mailing list traffic I've seen, I'd guess they'd be happy to
have it work with other platforms' DECnet implementations, but finding
people with machines to test against is tough outside of this crowd.

:-)

    I plan to contact the developers when I have a little time and offer
to do some more formalized testing against RSTS/E and RSX and get them
feedback, and possibly fix some of the issues.

    This really needs to happen.

Well, she is on HECnet, and is already reading this. However, since she formally disowned it, it might be that there is actually noone you could contact...

	Johnny