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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>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. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I will now remove decent from Ubuntu 17.10 because it complaint every few minutes and asked me to send report to Ubuntu maintainers. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Instead I will use DECnet over IP method and got TCPware and MultiNet software to set up. That allows accesses to HECnet. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tim<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Larry Baker [mailto:baker@usgs.gov] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 11, 2017 5:21 PM<br><b>To:</b> fsword007@gmail.com<br><b>Cc:</b> simh <simh@trailing-edge.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Simh] DECnet for Linux problems (Ubuntu 17.10)<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tim,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Linux-DECnet used to be maintained by Chrissie Caulfield. She gave that up three years ago. You might ask Steve Whitehouse (<span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><a href="mailto:steve@chygwyn.com">steve@chygwyn.com</a>)</span> or Eduardo Serrat (<a href="mailto:emserrat@hotmail.com">emserrat@hotmail.com</a>)<span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'> </span>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 <a href="https://www.kernel.org">https://www.kernel.org</a>. The last Arch Linux ARM Kirkwood-specific Linux 3.16 kernel was for 3.16.6 on October 16, 2014, at <a href="https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/commit/8be533de52d44d39b2b12999e979d4d377f5e2e5">https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/commit/8be533de52d44d39b2b12999e979d4d377f5e2e5</a>.) 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.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>