Re: [Linux-decnet-user] Closing DECNET connections

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

On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 10:50:44AM +0200, Lhota Robert wrote:
> 
> > If you do that command on VMS then the Linux connections will timeout.
> > 
> The problem is, that I unfortunatelly dont have access to VAX/VMS
> machines at all because they belong to our customer (I am implementing
> part of SLM and all I have are DECNET addresses of VAX machines). So my
> only possibility is to clear connections from Linux, which is impossible
> or only possible by rebooting the machine. Or am I wrong?

You need to reboot the machine I'm afraid. the init.d script only restarts the
daemons. The kernel module is currently unloadable.

Once the machine has rebooted it will take a while for VMS to tidy out the dead
connections but they will go away eventually.


patrick