4 Aug
2022
4 Aug
'22
9:17 p.m.
Since dropping DECNET is just a proposal and needs to be voted on, what’s the chance the
vote will pass?
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On Aug 4, 2022, at 14:08, Grant Taylor via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 8/4/22 2:12 PM, Doc Shipley via cctalk wrote:
This becomes an actual showstopper when the most
recent hardware platform that will run the most recent Linux kernel to support DECNet
becomes impossible to maintain.
I'm not convinced that the inability to boot the newest kernel that supports DECnet
will be in and of itself a show stopper.
I believe it will be possible to run said kernel as a user space process a la. User Mode
Linux (arch=um) with a virtual NIC that is bridged to the external Ethernet NIC.
There's still the possibility of running the older kernel in a VM even when it
won't run native on the hardware.
In other words you'll probably want to put
your DECNet bridge system behind a more current firewall fairly soon, but DECNet in
current Linux distributions will not stop working then it's dropped from future
versions.
I suspect that is and has been the case for a good while. ;-)
No offense, people, but the sky is not falling.
Agreed.
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