RE: [Linux-decnet-user] Specs for MOPD

[Gregg C L. <dr...@wo...>]

Hello from Gregg C Levine
Okay, Patrick, I agree with you, that something is broken on it
someplace. But my Linux box is only wearing one Ethernet card. So that
balances. My question was, and still is, "Do you have copies of those
documents, that you'd be willing to share? Or know someone who would?"
The other question is still that of hardware. Does anyone on this list,
have any useful contacts within the used equipment market, regarding the
units that are described both here, in this message, (look below), and
on the matching websites?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: lin...@li...
[mailto:linux-decnet-user-
> ad...@li...] On Behalf Of Patrick Caulfield
> Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 8:36 AM
> To: DECnet list
> Subject: Re: [Linux-decnet-user] Specs for MOPD
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> On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 12:47:27AM -0400, Gregg C Levine wrote:
> > Hello from Gregg C Levine
> > Darndest thing. It turns out that Red Hat has a workable MOPD
daemon.
> > Anyway, I have it installed on a 6.2 system running the 2.2.14
kernel. I
> > know its an older kernel, but that is what it came with, for
> > installation purposes. Are any of you aware of the availability of
these
> > documents? "DECnet Digital Network Architecture Phase IV,
Maintenance
> > Operations Functional Specification V3.0.0, AA-X436A-TK", and
"DECnet
> > Digital Network Architecture Phase IV, Maintenance Operations
Functional
> > Specification V4.0.0, EK-DNA11-FS-001". The man page for it,
references
> > the manuals. My guess is that the daemon was written originally for
the
> > Alpha port of Red hat Linux, and the author decided to bring it to
the
> > I386 version. Still thinking about what kernel I should install on
that
> > guy, and to track down the right hardware, but you know that one.
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> AIUI the mopd in Linux was originally written for NetBSD so they could
boot the
> VAX port. It was then ported to Linux by I know not whom. Incidentally
there
> seems to be a bug in that version that breaks mopd -a on machines with
more than
> one ethernet card.
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> The Linux/MIPS guys have done some nice mods to it so that it can boot
ELF
> images direct without having to preprocess them first (I forget the
URL but I
> can find it (or provide binaries) if anyone's interested.)
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> I use mopd to boot my DECserver 200 as well as my MIPS DECstation (for
> some reason Linux 2.4 sets the frag bit on all UDP packets which it
doesn't like
> so I can't use bootp).
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> My LATD package has a moprc program (written from the specs you
mention)
> which
> allows a Linux user to remotely manage terminal servers and trigger
remote boots
> of machines too.
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> patrick
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