[Linux-decnet-user] unable to start decnet

[Frank S. <FSa...@ha...>]

Hi,
I have trouble with the installation of DECnet for Linux.
I=B4ve an AS600 5/333 with Redhat 7.1. I=B4ve downloaded
the kernel 2.4.9.-21 from RH and build my own with support
for DECnet.

After that I=B4ve installed dnprogs-2.17-1.alpha.rpm and made
the configuration:
less /etc/decnet.conf
#
#               DECnet hosts file
#
#Node           Node            Name            Node    Line    Line
#Type           Address         Tag             Name    Tag     Device
#-----          -------         -----           -----   -----   ------
executor         2.50           name            declin  line    eth0
node             2.10           name            LA2161
node             2.20           name            LA2162
node             2.51           name            majest

BTW: Is it nessesary to have the user patrick?

After reading some older postings in the mailinglist I found that
I=B4ve forgot to install compat-libstdc and ncurses. I did it.

After that I still have problems to start /etc/rc.d/init.d/decnet:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/decnet start
Starting DECnet: Error setting hw address on eth0: Device or resource b=
usy
Error setting hw address on eth1: Device or resource busy
error starting socket layer.

Trying to connect brings:
sethost LA2161
sethost V1.0.3
Connecting to LA2161
socket: No route to host

Looking in /proc/sys/net/decnet:
less node_name
???
less default_device
(nothing)
less node_address
0.0
less debug
0
less di_count
3
less dr_count
3
less dn_count
1
less dst_gc_interval
2
less time_wait
30
less no_fc_max_cwnd
1

Looks not quit well, right?

--
Bye

Frank Sackewitz
EDM
HASCO-Normalien
www.hasco.com
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