On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Larry Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > Lennart, > > There's more to it than that. The DECnet kernel module must first be loaded > so that it creates /proc/net/decnet*. When the dnetd service is started, it > parses /etc/decnet.conf and writes the DECnet host address to > /proc/sys/net/decnet/node_address and the default DECnet device (interface) > to /proc/sys/net/decnet/default_device. The MAC address of all the DECnet > interfaces has to be changed to a special multicast address. This all > usually must be done before IP networking is started. I am not sure that a > socket can be opened before networking is up.
It can. All the program needs to do is call `socket(PF_DECNET, ...)`. Whether networking is "up" or not (for all definitions of "up") does not matter until you try to connect() or bind() or do similar things. -- Mantas Mikulėnas _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
