[HECnet] "illegal record size" in RSX?

[Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-]

Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> writes:

>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.

I have, printed, all DECnet (circa Pase IV) specs here; however, they are
on-line if you Google them.

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