[HECnet] DECnet on Ubuntu 14.04

[Tony Blews]

I've not had any success past 9.10.
I was thinking of rolling my own Linux From Scratch version with a suitably
old kernel.

On Sun, 12 May 2019, 22:55 Robert Armstrong, <bob at jfcl.com> wrote:

>   Can anybody tell me the secret to making DECnet work on Ubuntu 14.04
> (Precise)?    Yes, this release is out of date but it’s the one I need to
> use for other compatibility reasons.
>
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>   I installed the dnet-common, dnet-progs and libdnet packages from the
> standard repository.  I configured the /etc/decnet.conf and dnet.conf files
> (and I don’t care about decnet.proxy just yet).  Nothing seems to give an
> error, the dnetd daemon is running, and the MAC of my eth0 has been changed
> to match my DECnet address.  dneigh shows the correct adjacent routing node
> on the network.
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>   But nothing can communicate.  All the DECnet commands (sethost, dnping,
> etc) give “socket: no such device” errors, and all the other DECnet
> machines on the network think the Linux host is unavailable.
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>   I seem to remember that there was some problem with the DECnet startup
> with upstart, but I don’t remember the details and Google isn’t being
> helpful today.
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> Thanks,
>
> Bob
>
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