RE: [Linux-decnet-user] dnprogs installation on Red Hat 8.0 (succ ess!)

[McVeagh, J. <Joh...@CS...>]

Larry,
 
Thanks for posting the step by step process for Redhat.  I have a related
question. 
Did you find that DECnet support was enabled (active) in the kernel or did
you have to load a module (decnet.o)?
 
John McVeagh
CSX Technology
 
 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Baker [mailto:ba...@us...]
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 6:57 PM
To: lin...@li...
Subject: [Linux-decnet-user] dnprogs installation on Red Hat 8.0 (success!)


My Red Hat 8.0 Linux DECnet installation seems to work now (with one minor
annoyance, see below).  I used the information in the online HTML man pages
and FAQs as a reference.  The steps I followed were:
 
Download dnprogs-2.23-1.i386.rpm to /usr/local/src
 
Install the dnprogs RPM:
 
    # cd /usr/local/src
    # rpm -Uvh dnprogs-2.23-1.i386.rpm
 
    Ignore the messages about not being user patrick
 
    Answer the questions to define the DECnet network
 
Optionally configure the DECnet hosts file:
 
    # vi /etc/decnet.conf
 
    Add more hosts, etc.
 
Optionally configure the DECnet objects file:
 
    # vi /etc/dnetd.conf
 
    Comment out unneeded objects, etc.
 
Optionally configure the DECnet proxy file:
 
    # vi /etc/decnet.proxy
 
    Add DECnet->Linux userid mappings, etc.
 
Configure the DECnet startup/shutdown script:
 
    # vi /etc/init.d/decnet
 
    Change "prefix=/usr/local" to "prefix=/usr" (the rpm installation
    puts the executables in /usr..., not /usr/local...)
 
Configure the Ethernet MAC address:
 
    16-bit DECnet address = ( area-no. * 1024 ) + node-no.
    Convert 16-bit DECnet address to hex
    Swap hex bytes and append to AA:00:04:00
 

    For example, 63.171 = ( 63 * 1024 ) + 171 = 64683 = FCAB
    MAC address for 63.171 = AA:00:04:00:AB:FC
 
    # vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
 
    Add a line specifying the MAC address using the MACADDR keyword
 
    # DECnet host address 63.171
    MACADDR=AA:00:04:00:AB:FC
 
    On my system, I also made ifcfg-eth0 executable
 

    # chmod +x /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
 
Update the kernel module database:
 
    # depmod -a
 
Enable the DECnet service:
 
    # chkconfig --level 345 decnet on
 
Reboot
 
    # reboot
 
Try something
 
    # dnping local-host
    # dnping remote-host
 
 
On my Red Hat 8.0 system, after DECnet is enabled, "ifconfig" no longer
works without an explicit interface argument.  This is a minor annoyance,
which I ignore.
 
Larry Baker
US Geological Survey