[HECnet] User mode DECnet for Linux

[Robert Jarratt]

Yes, Paul Koning, who is on this list I think.

Regards

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hecnet at update.uu.se [mailto:owner-hecnet at update.uu.se]
> On Behalf Of Sampsa Laine
> Sent: 29 February 2016 11:33
> To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
> Subject: Re: [HECnet] User mode DECnet for Linux
> 
> 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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