[Linux-decnet-user] linux-decnet 2.05 / RedHat 7.1 beta

[Paul S. <psh...@st...>]

My apologies if this has been covered before in the list - I became
unsubscribed some time ago (maybe during the move to sourceforge) and never
got arounfd to resubscribing.

I've been using decnet 2.05 on a RH5.2 system with a patched 2.2.13 kernel
without problems. I'm now trying to get this to work with a new RH7.1 beta
release and am having _considerable_ problems!

The startup sequence with RH7.1 is different, but I'm initialising the
ethernet card with the correct hardware address (AA:00:04:00:06:04),
insmodding the decnet kernel module, and running startnet immediately
afterwards, which produces no errors. TCP/IP works fine.

/etc/decnet.conf is:

#
#		DECnet host files
#
#Node		Node		Name		Node	Line	Line
#Type		Address		Tag		Name	Tag	Device
#-----		-------		-----		-----	-----	------
executor	1.6 		name		old	line	eth0
node		1.5 		name		white
node		1.10 		name		psc

/proc/net/decnet shows

Local                                              Remote
   0.0/2001 0001:0001 0000:0000 2 29                  0.0/0000 0000:0000
0000:0000 2 0                OPEN IMMED

/proc/net/decnet_neigh shows

Addr    Flags State Use Blksize Dev
0.0     ---   40    01  0001498 lo      

/proc/net/decnet_route shows

Iface	Dest	GW  	Flags	RefCnt	Use	Metric	Mask		MTU	Window	IRTT
                                                   

If I do 'sethost psc' (which is a Vax) on the box, I get 'socket: No route
to host'. The Vax doesn't see the node (though it correctly sees the RH5.2
Linux system).

Does this ring any bells for anyone? All suggestions gratefully received.
(I need to get this working with the RH7.1 system because I need large file
support).

TIA, Paul


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