[Simh] DECnet for Linux problems (Ubuntu 17.10)

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2017-12-12 04:48, Tim Stark wrote:
> 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.

Uh? Isn't Linux already using git since many years?

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

Not that surprised. Linux usually have been very quick at changing 
internal APIs, making lots of code not work.

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

Right. It will. And probably work better. But it does require a VMS box. 
But I assume you have that.

> 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?

Nope. There are none.
I do have all posts, but not in a digestable form, and they are also not 
separated from my private mail.

> 
> 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/8be533de52d44d39b2b12999e979d4d377f5e2e5.) 
>   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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