RE: RE: [Linux-decnet-user] Re: LATD 0.8

[Kenn H. <ke...@bl...>]

> >Third, I tried a connect from DS90L+ per your BUGS that the 
> connect didn't
> >work - just wanted to pass on a screen scrape of how it went in 
> case it is
> >of any value to you - btw: do you _have_ a 90L+ you can test 
> with? I think
> >I might be able to roust up a spare if you don't...
> 
> I don't have a DS90L+, I had an email from Kenn in Ireland who 
> has one and his didn't work. In the end it turned out that the 
> DECserver would only talk to devices whose MAC address looked 
> like DEC ones! so he changed his MAC address and I believe it is OK now.

Yup.  Had to tell the kernel to tell the NIC to use a DECnet-style
ethernet address (in Red Hat, add MACADDR=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx to 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg=eth0 and ifdown/ifup eth0).

I don't know if this works with all NICs, though.

Later,
Kenn