[HECnet] Automatic Orderly Shutdown of Emulated VAX/VMS System in SIMH

[Paul Koning]

> On Jun 11, 2018, at 12:17 PM, Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for all of the suggestions. They give me some ideas to work with.
> 
> I particularly like the idea of using dntask on the Linux side, but unfortunately that one breaks the "If you already have a working DECnet network..." requirement. Unless something has changed more recently than I am aware of, the DECnet support in Linux has been broken for quite a long time. I had to install a very old distribution on the Linux VM that I set up for doing some DECnet stuff, but this server would be running a very recent distribution. It would be very nice if the Linux DECnet code started getting attention again and could be updated to work in the latest kernels, but that's not a task that I can take on at this time. 
> 
> Alternately, it would be neat if there was a DECnet client implementation that could run entirely in user space. Is there anything like that which I'm not aware of?

My implementation in Python aims to do that, but so far I only have up to layer 3.  I wonder if Robert Jarrett's C router does.

	paul