[HECnet] "illegal record size" in RSX?

[Dave McGuire]

On 04/15/2015 11:58 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> Seems to me you are just hitting the problems with the Linux DECnet
> code, since that has pretty much only been tested against VMS, and
> probably are breaking the protocol all over the place...
> I know that transferring stream files from VMS to RSX works fine, with
> RSX converting them to variable length records.
> Like I said before, I have had essentially no luck in using Linux DECnet
> against RSX systems. Not only file transfers, but things like PHONE also
> do not work.

  Yes, it looks like that's what's going on.  That sucks.  I would love
to pick up the maintenance of that code, but I don't know DECnet
internals at all and would be starting from scratch there.  I know I
could handle the code, but the required time to come up to speed is an
obstacle.

              -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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