[Linux-decnet-user] DECnet for Linux on Ubuntu

[Gary L. P. <tiv...@gm...>]

I've just joined the list and reading over the recent messages I saw
some comments to the effect that "DECnet isn't supported on Ubuntu"
(which I take to mean, it doesn't work.)

I'm glad I didn't see this last week, because in my ignorance I went
ahead and installed the packages (from the Ubuntu repository) onto two
desktop machines running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx.)

It took a little twiddling with the configuration, but just about
everything seems to work as expected.

I have Alpha hardware running OpenVMS 8.3 and virtual (SIMH) VAX
machines running OpenVMS 7.3. Both DECnet and TCP/IP communications
are working between all of them.

Please tell me which version of Ubuntu failed to work, because I'll be
careful not to upgrade to it. I'll be happy to answer questions about
my configuration and network setup.

(Note that in order to get a Linux hardware host to communicate with a
virtual VAX running on the same host, I had to use a TAP/TUN setup to
create a virtual ethernet bridge, but that works well with both TCP/IP
and DECnet as far as I can tell.)

--Altivo