DECnet on the 'net - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

6 Jun 2007

On 6/6/2007 06:27 PM, cctech-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
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 Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 13:31:03 -0400
From: "Bill Pechter" <pechter at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: DECnet and MOP
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
         <cctalk at classiccmp.org>

On 6/6/07, der Mouse <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca> wrote:

  I still have copies of all the Phase IV era DNA
specs. 
 I don't suppose you have softcopies?  Or that someone else has them
 available for fetch?

 I'd like to have a stab at implementing DECnet.  (Not because I have
 any production use for it; just as part of my drive to understand
 everything - nothing teaches a protocol like implementing it.)

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Softcopies linked to on
http://linux-decnet.sourceforge.net/docs/doc_index.html

-- 
Great pointer.  That's a copy of stuff rescued from Decwrl after 
Compaq took over.
I'd almost forgotten all the time spent in Runoff.

I'd used to say that I produced the last implementation of DECnet 
Phase IV in PathWORKS for Windows 95.
But these guys doing the Linux DECnet have taken that away from me.
http://linux-decnet.sourceforge.net/

If you're interested in learning how DECnet works, that 
implementation is freely accessible.

PS: There is a Debian MOP daemon here 
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/mopd

I seem to remember that there was a group of people bridging their 
DECnet over TCP to connect various sites over the Internet.  I can't 
seem to find them this minute.

Dave.