Re: [Linux-decnet-user] unable to start decnet

[Patrick C. <pa...@ty...>]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 07:02:47AM +0100, Frank Sackewitz wrote:
> Hi,
> I have trouble with the installation of DECnet for Linux.
> I?ve an AS600 5/333 with Redhat 7.1. I?ve downloaded
> the kernel 2.4.9.-21 from RH and build my own with support
> for DECnet.
> 
> After that I?ve 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?

No.
 
> After reading some older postings in the mailinglist I found that
> I?ve 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 busy
> Error setting hw address on eth1: Device or resource busy
> error starting socket layer.

It is being called too late in the startup sequence. you must start DECnet
before TCP/IP because it needs to change the MAC address of the ethernet card.

The recommended thing to do on Red Hat is to edit the file 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 to contain the correct MAC address - which
in you case is AA:00:04:00:32:08. See http://linux-decnet.sourceforge.net/faq-4.html#ss4.1
 
The Red Hat scripts are rather out of date these days I'm afraid - I don't run
Red Hat so I can't really maintain them very well.

patrick