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DECnet for Linux FAQ
This FAQ aims to answer common questions about using DECnet on Linux machines. I recommend you read it before submitting questions to the mailing list as it might save you (and others) a lot of time.
As a general rule there are no general DECnet related questions here (eg on using DECnet with OpenVMS, Ultrix or SunOS) as that information is available from the respective vendors.
The FAQ mentions OpenVMS as the "other" operating system most of the time - that's because the DECnet programs are primarily aimed at OpenVMS users and mainly because that's the only DEC DECnet system I have available to me.
DECnet, VMS, OpenVMS and Ultrix are trademarks of HP,
SunOS is a trademark of Sun Microsystems,
Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds
- What is DECnet?
- Why would I want DECnet for Linux?
- What's an end-node?
- What versions of VMS/OpenVMS does it support?
- Does it talk to any operating system other than VMS?
- Where do I get it?
- What network interfaces does it support?
- Does it support DDCMP?
- Does it support LAT?
- Does it support LAD/LAST?
- Does it support DFS?
- Does it support DCPS?
- what about PATHWORKS?
- what about DECnet/Plus?
- I have a load of DECservers - can I use them with Linux?
- What sort of support do I get?
- Will this work on any other Unix?
- Is it part of the standard Linux kernel?
- Can I run Linux on a VAX?
- Is it legal to run VMS at home?
- Why are you doing this?
- Can I do transparent file access?
- Can I do non-transparent access?
- Can I access RMS indexed files from Linux
- Are you going to implement RMS on Linux?
- Can I run X-Windows applications ?
- I can't get Linux applications to display on my VMS workstation.
- Can I mount VMS disks from Linux?
- Can I mount Linux disks on VMS?
- Can I boot terminal servers or other MOP-booting devices from Linux?
- Can I use Linux as a router?
- Can I print from VMS to Linux or vice versa?
- Can I run a Linux machine with no TCP/IP and only DECnet?
- So what else are you going to do?
- What Linux platforms does it run on?
- Can I use SSH over DECnet?
- I want to help with the project. What do I do?
- Your releases are a bit erratic, how do I get the latest code?
- Why are your release numbers so stupid?
- How do I write DECnet programs?
- Can I use this stuff in a commercial application?
- Help, all my programs are linked with libdnet?
- I get duplicate definitions for 'getnodebyname' and my programs don't compile.
- protocol.cc: In method `char * dap_date_message::time_to_string(time_t)': protocol.cc:1703: warning: `%y' yields only last 2 digits of year
- Is linking libdnet a bad thing to do? Does it require configured DECnet?
- What's all this about configuring my ethernet card ?
- How do I calculate the MAC address?
- Help! Nothing seems to work!
- I keep getting "Unknown or invalid node name"
- get "xmit on stopped card", or "network_interrupt() on unknown card."
- Why is it all so complicated?
- Is DECnet be included in any Linux distributions?
- My Phase V nodes keep disappearing from /proc/net/decnet_neigh, why?
- I get "connect: No route to host" when trying to contact a node
- Can I connect to HECnet?
- No router shows up and I can't contact other areas
The DECnet programs (dnprogs) tools
- Why do I keep getting "Filename Parse Error" ?
- Why are all uploaded files in STREAMLF format ?
- OK so how do I change it ?
- Why can't dncopy do this ?
- Can I embed VMS files in a Linux pipeline ?
- I backed up an indexed file to Linux and when I restored it it was sequential. What happened ?
- The file sizes show by dndir look a bit small, why is that ?
- Do I really have to type my VMS password every time I transfer a file ?
- Is your implementation of DECnet proxies as good as VMS?
- Can I have a "Default DECnet" account?
- How secure is it?
- Can VMS see files on my Linux machine ?
- VMS just says "-SYSTEM-F-REMRSRC, insufficient system resources at remote node"
- Everything just replies "Connection Refused", why?
- dntask just replies "Connection Refused", why?
- dntask behaves very oddly. What's happening ?
- VMS reports "-RMS-E-NETBTS, network buffer too small for n byte record" when I try to copy a file to Linux.
- Can I backup VMS to Linux ?
- Why can't I type my username if I have sethost in .bash_profile/.bashrc?
- I get odd errors sending files to a Linux box running FAL.
- How do I restrict which services my Linux box provides?
- The daemons are ignoring the parameters in dnetd.conf...why?
- What determines the UIC numbers on my Linux box?
- When I DIR a Linux box from VMS the created date looks wrong
- The phone server is not running, please contact your system administrator
- Why are there two terminal programs?
- Why does dnping return "Connection Refused"?
- Can it handle files larger than 2GB ?
- Are the programs available in languages other than English?
- LAT on Debian
- DECnet on Debian
- dnprogs on OpenSUSE
- LAT on SuSE
- DECnet on SuSE 10.0
- DECnet on SuSe 11.1
- DECnet on CentOS 4 (same as RedHat RHEL 4)
Please add your instructions for getting DECnet to work on various distributions.
