Ok, thanks for let me know. I now learned that DECnet for Linux is already orphaned a few years ago. CVS facility will go away soon on Sourceforge.net. I mirrored a copy of CVS repos and successfully converted to Git repo by following SF instructions for conversion. I will contact them for latest Linux kernel problems.
I will now remove decent from Ubuntu 17.10 because it complaint every few minutes and asked me to send report to Ubuntu maintainers. Instead I will use DECnet over IP method and got TCPware and MultiNet software to set up. That allows accesses to HECnet. I was looking for HECnet mail archives but can't find them. I have now subscribed to HECnet list. Does anyone know where is that HECnet mail archives? Thanks, Tim From: Larry Baker [mailto:ba...@usgs.gov] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 5:21 PM To: fsword...@gmail.com Cc: simh <simh@trailing-edge.com> Subject: Re: [Simh] DECnet for Linux problems (Ubuntu 17.10) Tim, Linux-DECnet used to be maintained by Chrissie Caulfield. She gave that up three years ago. You might ask Steve Whitehouse (st...@chygwyn.com <mailto:st...@chygwyn.com> ) or Eduardo Serrat (emser...@hotmail.com <mailto:emser...@hotmail.com> ) for advice. I last worked on the code several years ago for a DECnet/FAL-to-NFS gateway I built on a Marvell SheevaPlug (ARM) SBC using Arch Linux ARM linux-kirkwood-3.16. (The latest Linux longterm 3.16 kernel at that time was 3.16.6, at https://www.kernel.org. The last Arch Linux ARM Kirkwood-specific Linux 3.16 kernel was for 3.16.6 on October 16, 2014, at https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/commit/8be533de52d44d39b2b12999e97 9d4d377f5e2e5.) I had to patch the kernel driver in a couple places. There have been so may changes to the routing layer and networking in general in the Linux kernel, it could be a substantial amount of work to advance the decnet driver any further. Also, I found that submitting patches to older kernels is a bit of a problem because of the attitude of the gatekeeper of the Linux networking code.
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