RE: [Linux-decnet-user] Duffer's guide

[Nick H. <nic...@ip...>]

Cheers for that

>You probably need to "echo 5.400 > /proc/sys/net/decnet/node_address"

You weren't wrong - the first time I typed it I messed up

Everything seems good from the command line - I just have to learn how to
use them now

I will probably pause now to write up my RH7.3 procedure - incase I forget
later (and this box is a trial for moving people in the company of windows
and onto linux - so hopefully I will need it later)

A quick X question though....

>You can use X-Windows from OpenVMS to Linux if you build
>your X-Server with DECnet support or download one. This 
>makes Linux into an excellent (and cheap!) X-terminal for 
>VMS as well as Unix. It is also possible to display Linux 
>X programs on a VMS workstation using DECnet. 

OK - so I install a new XF86 file to /usr/X11R6/bin (from your pre-compiled
downloads) to update it to decnet capable.

How do I start a remote X-session??

I havn't done it yet but I plan to and it is fairly fundimental to the
workstation changeover

Hey - I said I was a newbie/duffer

Cheers once again

Nick

P.S. Is any kindly person planning to build a XFree86.gz for XFree86 4.2.0?
(Or can I use the XFree86.gz for XFree86 4.1.0?)

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Caulfield [mailto:pa...@ty...] 
Sent: 25 July 2002 13:18
To: lin...@li...
Subject: Re: [Linux-decnet-user] Duffer's guide


On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 12:30:41PM +0100, Nick Holder wrote:
> Thanks for your help on the MAC address front
> 
> I don't suppose anyone has made a duffers walkthrough guide to DECnet on
> Linux?? (and need a duffer to try it on)

Part of the problem with a duffers guide is that is is very distribution
dependant. So the installation on RedHat varies considerably from Debian
(where
DECnet is part of the distribution).

You're right - a newbies HOWTO is very much needed, and I suppose a Red Hat
one
would probably be the most commonly useful.

> I have spent 2 days working out how to compile a kernel - now I have
worked
> that out and have DECnet in the kernel (not as a module)
> 
> Then I installed the latest RPM on my RedHat 7.3 (2.4.18-3) system, chose
my
> node name and entered my regular node aliases (then checked they had made
it
> as far as /etc/decnet.conf - they did)
> 
> I *Think* the dnetd is running - I started it manually. And I have no idea
> how to use startnet (are there any options I need??)
> 
> I have added the MACADDR to etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> 
> I have rebooted, started-stopped-restarted networking and tried as many
> things as my newbie brain could come up with, I have looked at the website
> (particularly the FAQ) and that is predominantly helenic to me

Unfortunately the documents do assume rather more knowledge of DECnet than
may
be common. It's all a question of time and also knowing what it i speople
want
to know  :-)
 
> So - the question is....
> 
> What blindingly obvious steps have I missed?

You probably need to "echo 5.400 > /proc/sys/net/decnet/node_address"

after that you should start to see the otehr DECnet nodes appearing in
/proc/net/decnet_neigh.

If you need any more interactive help you could join me on IRC:
irc.openprojects.net channel #decnet

patrick



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