[HECnet] User mode DECnet for Linux

[Sampsa Laine]

Didn’t someone here implement a DECNET stack in Python recently?

Sampsa


> On 29 Feb 2016, at 14:29, Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Ah this is a shame - I would have thought that given the maturity of the code maintaining maybe wasn't so much a technical as a time consuming occupation?
> I wonder if we have the resources in the HECnet community to keep this going? Has this subject come up before and passed me by?
> 
> Are there any other unix alternative other than Digital Unix/tru64?
> 
> Cheers, Mark.
> 
> On 29/02/16 10:57, Sampsa Laine wrote:
>> Well, no, not as I understand it...
>> 
>> The DECNET for Linux guys stopped working on the code a while back, the kernel devs then dropped the code as well and none of it is maintained.
>> 
>> I think the latest version of Ubuntu Server that it runs on is like 12.04, which is ANCIENT.
>> 
>> Sampsa
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 29 Feb 2016, at 13:24, Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Back in the day I used custom kernel configurations for DECnet under linux.
>>> Am I right in thinking that the kernel drivers have been pulled and support is now in user land?
>>> 
>>> Thanks, Mark.
> 
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