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From: Patrick C. <pa...@ty...> - 2002-04-02 10:36:01
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On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 05:14:39PM -0500, Gregg C Levine wrote: > Hello from Gregg C Levine > In an earlier e-mail Patrick mentioned the fact that he maintains the > Debian collection for the Linux-DECnet tool set. And that if I were > running it here, all I needed to was to issue these commands, "'# > apt-get install dnet-progs' > answer a couple of questions and reboot(to set the MAC address).".Well > regrettably I am not. But I am wondering where to find the tool set > referenced in that command prompt line. I checked the ftp site for > collection, and found something else labeled "apt", but that did not > look right. Found the site for the alien concept(?), and downloaded the > stuff that I know to be referencing Slackware, and ran from there to the > Debian site. I'm nore sure the debian tools would be much use to you on a Slackware system, you really need to be running a Debian system to use them. I suspect it would be easier to recompile dnprogs yourself than try to get apt and it's friends running on a "foreign" distribution. > Also, I would like to know what settings I would need to > use for setting the /dev/lat* settings? You know what I mean, is it a > character or block, which major, and which minor, and such like. TCPdump > complains, and I need to manually set the interface, ifconfig, also > complains, but does tell me that my Ethernet connection is still there. The /dev/lat devices are simply symlinks to real devices, actually PTYs. You don't need to do anything with them at all - in fact there is nothing useful you could do with them. latcp deals with all the management of them. patrick |
