RE: [Linux-decnet-user] Command line access to NCL

[Colin B. <col...@xd...>]

NCL is the command line interface with DECnet/OSI & DECnet-Plus, aka
DECnet Phase V. DECnis etc. use it for remote management. Since the Linux
DECnet implementation is Phase IV the answer must be no.

DECnis routers don't really do remote console or anything much like that,
so you'll need to retain a DECnet Phase V machine to manage them remotely
over the network.

If you're looking to replace DECnet Phase V machines with Linux running an
implementation of DECnet Phase IV then be very careful that you're not
throwing away functionality in DECnet Phase V that you're implicitly
reliant on. DECnet Phase IV uses NSP as the transport layer. DECnet Phase
V uses any (or all) of NSP, OSI TRANSPORT and DECnet over IP (uses
RFC1006-Plus to encapsulate DECnet packets inside IP packets).

DECnet Phase V does multi-homed end systems. Early DECnet Phase V (called
DECnet/OSI) doesn't do host based routing, later Phase V (called
DECnet-Plus - appears in VMS V7.1 onwards) does do host based routing.

VAX does DDCMP (DECnet over serial line), Alpha doesn't. VAX doesn't do
PPP (TCPIP Services, not DECnet), Alpha does.

Hope this helps.
Colin Butcher (col...@xd...)

-----Original Message-----
From: lin...@li...
[mailto:lin...@li...]On Behalf Of
Anthony Patchett
Sent: 19 September 2002 12:11
To: lin...@li...
Subject: [Linux-decnet-user] Command line access to NCL


I'm looking at replacing some VMS boxes with a linux-based solution and I
need DECnet access to manage some older network devices (DECnis routers
etc.). So I was wondering if it is possible to get command line access to
NCL using "DECnet for Linux"?

Tony Patchett




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