[HECnet] Hecnet Peering

[Hans Vlems]

It would be nice to move the connection off a Linux box to a VMS system.
There is a libpcap version for VMS, it's used by simh.
The problem is Python. AFAIK that i   s just v2.7 for VMS. I know my systems run that kit, but I don't use it much so a newer version may be available.  
Hans

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Van: Paul_Koning at Dell.com
Verzonden: vrijdag 2 januari 2015 19:59
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Onderwerp: Re: [HECnet] Hecnet Peering


On Jan 2, 2015, at 1:36 PM, Hans Vlems <hvlems at zonnet.nl> wrote:

Paul,
Does it run on a VMS    supported version for Python?
If so then I' m interested in trying it out.
Hans

Probably not, at least not without some changes.

It typically runs as a daemon, and on VMS that   s done differently. Also, it uses libpcap via the Python ctypes module. Is there a VMS port of libpcap? Even if yes, the details of what symbols you ask for in the ctypes wrapper for that library might be different.

Finally, it uses Python 3, so you   d have to have that; Python 2 won   t do.

It would be seriously neat if this can be made to work, though.

paul