Tim, Linux-DECnet used to be maintained by Chrissie Caulfield. She gave that up three years ago. You might ask Steve Whitehouse ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>) or Eduardo Serrat ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>) 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.
> Begin forwarded message: > > From: Steven Whitehouse <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Linux-decnet-user] All finished > Date: 11 June 2014 at 7:17:52 AM PDT > To: Larry Baker <[email protected]> > Cc: Chrissie <[email protected]>, > <[email protected]> > > Hi, > > On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 17:54 -0700, Larry Baker wrote: >> Chrissie, >> >> >> You have made a tremendous contribution. Thank you. >> >> >> What will happen to the mailing list? Will updates to the code be >> possible? >> > Well I'd assume that the mailing list will just carry on. I may have had > admin access to the stuff at sourceforge at one stage... its so long ago > that I forget now. I doubt that any of it is going away, but if someone > wants to take it on and continue developing it, then I dare say that > access can be granted somehow or other. > > The whole problem recently had been the lack of interested developers, > so my suspicion is that it will not happen, but we'll see. > > I'm glad to hear that people are still using DECnet though - it does > make all the effort in the past worth it. Nice to hear from Eduardo > again too! > > Steve. > > >> Larry Baker >> US Geological Survey >> 650-329-5608 >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> >> On 10 Jun 2014, at 1:02 AM, Chrissie wrote: >> >>> So this is it, I'm announcing the end of my involvement in all >>> things >>> Linux/DECnet related. >>> >>> I've orphaned all the Debian packages and I'm going to leave >>> Sourceforge >>> and this mailing list. I'm not going to delete the project (if >>> that's >>> even possible) as I think there's value in leaving the code online >>> in >>> case people want it. >>> >>> Thank you do everyone who has contributed to this project in the >>> form of >>> code, documentation, help on the mailing list, and just general >>> encourangement. It's been fun. >>> >>> But life moves on and this project has been almost dead for a while >>> and >>> I need to stop pretending that it's something I'm doing. >>> >>> XX >>> Chrissie >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk >>> Solutions >>> Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems >>> Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. >>> Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration >>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Project Home Page: http://linux-decnet.wiki.sourceforge.net/ >>> >>> Linux-decnet-user mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-decnet-user >>> >>> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions >> Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems >> Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. >> Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems >> _______________________________________________ >> Project Home Page: http://linux-decnet.wiki.sourceforge.net/ >> >> Linux-decnet-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-decnet-user >> > > Larry Baker US Geological Survey 650-329-5608 [email protected] > On 8 Dec 2017, at 7:08:39 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 22:08:32 -0500 > From: "Tim Stark" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > To: <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: [Simh] DECnet for Linux problems (Ubuntu 17.10) > Message-ID: <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Folks, > > > > I upgraded to Ubuntu 17.10 to re-install SIMH emulator for VAX emulator. I > tried to set up DECnet config files but it did not work well. When I tried > to execute any DECnet commands, it hung up forever and ^C or ^Z did not > response. I have to close terminal window to kill it. I checked dmesg log > files and found a problem in decent module (kernel space). It can't handle > NULL pointer during dn_nsp_send function call. > > > > Does anyone have got DECnet working on Ubuntu 17.10? > > > > Thanks, > > Tim > >
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