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Re: [Linux-decnet-user] More on Ubuntu 10.10 and DECnet
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From: <mik...@ta...> - 2011-06-30 14:07:43
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Thanks,
I'll stick with that then,
(I tried to look at upstart, but it gave me a headache)
Chrissie
Caulfield
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Larry Baker <ba...@us...>, Gary
30/06/2011 14:56 Lee Phillips
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Re: [Linux-decnet-user] More on
Ubuntu 10.10 and DECnet
To be honest, that's how I prefer to do it!
Chrissie
On 30 Jun 2011, at 14:51, mik...@ta... wrote:
> Gary,
>
> Don't know if this is any help to anyone,
>
> We've been runing decnet happily on Kubuntu 9.10 for the last year or so
> I've installed decnet on 2 new Kubuntu 11.04 machines over last couple of
> weeks,
> I thought it was working ok on first machine,
> but had trouble getting it to work on second machine,
>
> After lots of fiddling & looking at syslogs etc,
> I think it's variable when /etc/init.d/decnet script gets run,
> so sometimes MAC adress sticks, othertimes it doesn't
>
> think everything else is ok though.
>
> I've resorted to fixing mac adress in /etc/network/interfaces
>
>
> ie;
> #loopback
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> #primary network interface
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
> metric 10
>
> #decnet interface
> auto eth1
> iface eth1 inet dhcp
> hwaddress ether AA:00:04:00:03:04
> metric 20
>
>
> It seems to work ok,
>
> it's for a process control application
> & I'd be gratetful if anyone can see anything wrong with this,
> or a better way of doing it.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>
>
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> Larry Baker
> <ba...@us...>
> To
> 28/06/2011 21:39 Gary Lee Phillips
> <tiv...@gm...>
> cc
> Lin...@li...
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> Subject
> Re: [Linux-decnet-user] More on
> Ubuntu 10.10 and DECnet
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> Gary,
>
> I have only been casually following your e-mail thread. You might have
to
> take care of two issues to get your DECnet up and running. These
> instructions apply to dnprogs-2.47.tar.gz.
>
> 1) Set the proper MAC address. I edit the ifcfg-eth0 configuration file
to
> specify a MAC address. On CentOS:
>
> Configure the Ethernet MAC address
> in /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0:
>
> # vi /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0
>
> # Set MAC address for DECnet host address 54.145
> MACADDR=AA:00:04:00:91:D8
> # Disable MAC address check in TCP/IP startup
> #HWADDR=00:E0:81:2E:9E:70
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> 2) Enable multicast reception for the interface. The exact command to do
> this may vary from Linux to Linux. On CentOS:
>
> Edit the DECnet startup/shutdown script, /etc/init.d/decnet:
>
> #daemons="dnetd phoned"
> daemons="dnetd"
>
> echo -n $"Starting DECnet: "
>
> NODE=`grep executor /etc/decnet.conf| awk '{print $2}'`
> echo "$NODE" > /proc/sys/net/decnet/node_address
> NAME=`grep executor /etc/decnet.conf| awk '{print $4}'`
> echo "$NAME" > /proc/sys/net/decnet/node_name
> CCT=`grep executor /etc/decnet.conf | awk '{print $6}'`
> echo "$CCT" > /proc/sys/net/decnet/default_device
> $prefix/sbin/setether $NODE $CCT $extra_interfaces
>
> for i in $CCT $extra_interfaces
> do
> ip link set dev $i allmulticast on
> done
>
> for i in $daemons
>
> Larry Baker
> US Geological Survey
> 650-329-5608
> ba...@us...
>
> On 28 Jun 2011, at 1:25 PM, Gary Lee Phillips wrote:
>
> I got a chance today to try it.
>
> The machine for test was a netbook running Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick
> Meerkat). The kernel version was 2.6.35-8-generic-pae.
>
> I did not try to make DECnet work over the wireless interface (yet)
> but connected a standard 10base-T cable to a LAN hub.
>
> I installed three packages from the Ubuntu repository:
> libdnet
> dnet-common
> dnet-progs
>
> One might expect these to have been brought up to date, but
> apparently
> they do not function in the same way on 10.10 as they do on 10.04,
> which is in fact what I heard here.
>
> The main problem I could see was that the MAC address of the
ethernet
> interface was not altered to the appropriate DECnet address. Of
> course, nothing worked.
>
> As root, I did this:
>
> ifconfig eth0 down
> ifconfig eth0 hw ether aa:00:04:00:0b:0a
> ifconfig eth0 up
>
> This set up the MAC address to match my configured Phase IV address
> of 1.11.
>
> With this one change, I found that everything I tried seemed to
work,
> including dnping, dndir, dntype, dntask, and dnlogin. The only
> difficulties I encountered were with proxy on the remote VAX nodes,
> and I believe I have to reboot those before they will recognize new
> proxies added to the UAF.
>
> Incoming connections initiated by the remote VAX nodes were being
> rejected, possibly because dnetd hadn't been stopped and restarted,
> but connections initiated by the laptop seemed to work as they
> should.
>
> I will look into this further, and see what it might take to convert
> the existing /etc/init.d/decnet script to the upstart format. Things
> are busy, I'm not sure how soon I'll have that working.
>
> --Gary
>
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