[HECnet] DECnet for Linux Bug Fixes

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2020-11-06 02:55, Paul Koning wrote:
> 
>> On Jun 29, 2020, at 8:45 PM, John Forecast <john at forecast.name> wrote:
>>
>> Recently I have found, and fixed, a number of bugs in the DECnet for Linux kernel module. Some of
>> these bugs may be relevant for members of this mailing list who are using DECnet for Linux,
>> especially on a Raspberry Pi.
> 
> I've spent a bit of time with John's latest code to see how it works on other platforms.
> 
> The answer is "quite nicely".  I dropped his changed files into a Fedora Core 32 (the latest release, as of a couple of weeks ago anyway) sources, and built their 5.8.17 kernel with DECnet enabled, for 64-bit x86.
> 
> It works, no major problems seen.  This is the endnode; I haven't tried a router yet.
> 
> Very nice.

I had serious problems using it to talk to RSX in the past (many years 
ago). Have you tried accessing in both directions between an RSX node 
and that? It might be it has been improved a lot since I tried, but I am 
a little concerned that it's mostly just been tested against VMS.

   Johnny

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