[Simh] DECnet for Linux problems (Ubuntu 17.10)

[Tim Stark]

Ok, thanks for let me know.  I now learned that DECnet for Linux is already
orphaned a few years ago.   CVS facility will go away soon on
Sourceforge.net.   I mirrored a copy of CVS repos and successfully converted
to Git repo by following SF instructions for conversion.  I will contact
them for latest Linux kernel problems. 

 

I will now remove decent from Ubuntu 17.10 because it complaint every few
minutes and asked me to send report to Ubuntu maintainers. 

 

Instead I will use DECnet over IP method and got TCPware and MultiNet
software to set up.  That allows accesses to HECnet.  

 

I was looking for HECnet mail archives but can't find them.  I have now
subscribed to HECnet list.  Does anyone know where is that HECnet mail
archives?

 

Thanks,

Tim

 

From: Larry Baker [mailto:baker at usgs.gov] 
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 5:21 PM
To: fsword007 at gmail.com
Cc: simh <simh at trailing-edge.com>
Subject: Re: [Simh] DECnet for Linux problems (Ubuntu 17.10)

 

Tim,

 

Linux-DECnet used to be maintained by Chrissie Caulfield.  She gave that up
three years ago.  You might ask Steve Whitehouse (steve at chygwyn.com
<mailto:steve at chygwyn.com> ) or Eduardo Serrat (emserrat at hotmail.com
<mailto:emserrat at hotmail.com> ) for advice.  I last worked on the code
several years ago for a DECnet/FAL-to-NFS gateway I built on a Marvell
SheevaPlug (ARM) SBC using Arch Linux ARM linux-kirkwood-3.16.  (The latest
Linux longterm 3.16 kernel at that time was 3.16.6, at
https://www.kernel.org.  The last Arch Linux ARM Kirkwood-specific Linux
3.16 kernel was for 3.16.6 on October 16, 2014, at
https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/commit/8be533de52d44d39b2b12999e97
9d4d377f5e2e5.)  I had to patch the kernel driver in a couple places.  There
have been so may changes to the routing layer and networking in general in
the Linux kernel, it could be a substantial amount of work to advance the
decnet driver any further.  Also, I found that submitting patches to older
kernels is a bit of a problem because of the attitude of the gatekeeper of
the Linux networking code.

 

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