[Linux-decnet-user] gentoo build

[Scott L. <uga...@gm...>]

So i've recently tried to go from a Fedora Core 3 install to a new
2006.0gentoo install.  I can't find the dnprogs anywhere as an ebuild,
so i've
downloaded the code and compiled it myself, and tried to tweak the rc script
to run with the gentoo rc system. Even when i manually change the ethernet
address and add the right configs to the /proc file system, I can't seem to
communicate with my alpha via decnet.

i've been trying to use dnping from box to box but it doesn't work from this
gentoo box to anyone else.. But my FC3 box can dping the gentoo box just
fine and can dnping the alpha machine on the network or itself, but the
gentoo box cannot send dnpings to any of the other boxes.

I've tried running strace on the dnping command and it gets hung at :

connect(3, {sa_family=AF_DECnet,
sa_data="\0\31\0\0\305\277(\25\305\277h\21\0K"}, 26

am i missing something? does anyone know what could be the prob or has
experience this before? or knows that there are probs with gentoo and
dnprogs?

I've been running dnprogs now for almost 2 years on a couple of other boxes,
1 being the FC3 and the other one was a slackware box i believe.

please help.
Thank you.
-- 
Scott Lorberbaum
System/Network Administrator
Computer/Network Consultant
Software Engineer