[HECnet] VMS, linux and Hec/DEC net

[Dave McGuire]

  That sounds more like a bug in RSX that's being tickled by a bug in the
Linux LAT implementation.  Something (anything!) coming in over the wire
causing improper functioning of the OS is certainly not the way things
should be.

                 -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA



On February 11, 2016 9:47:48 AM Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

> On 2016-02-11 00:44, Dave McGuire wrote:
>>
>>    Unfortunately, DECnet for Linux is no longer maintained, as of maybe a
>> year ago.  It still mostly works, but you'd be better off setting up an
>> earlier release of Linux to run it on.  I believe the DECnet stack
>> itself has stopped working due to kernel interface changes in the past
>> year or so.  LAT, however, still works great.
>
> For some definition of great... Please do not try to use the llogin
> program against RSX. The Linux/Unix LAT code is violating the LAT
> protocol in some way, and that in turn triggers a memory leak in the RSX
> LAT code, so you will not be happy after a while. Sessions get dropped
> at random points, and at some point in time, you'll run out of memory in
> the LAT process in RSX.
>
> I have not tried to examine exactly what the code is doing wrong, and I
> have also not tried finding the bug in the RSX LAT code.
>
> 	Johnny
>
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