DECnet/E and DECnet-Plus

From: meltie <lists_at_microvax.org>
Date: Thu Feb 5 09:21:36 2004

On Thursday 05 February 2004 14:44, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 Paul Koning <pkoning_at_equallogic.com> wrote:
> > 1. DECnet/E only supports the "old" network terminal protocol, which
> > is object 21. The other one is "CTERM" which is implemented by VMS
> > and one or two other operating systems, but not DECnet/E. In fact,
> > I think none of the PDP11s do it; it's way too complex.
>
> RSX definitely implements CTERM.
> I think it's object 23.
>
> > 2. DECnet/E works fine on E11. It's been a while since I've tried
> > that but I did use it, under Linux that is. I was using
> > the "tap" pseudo-ethernet to debug DECnet/Linux against DECnet/E...
> >
> > FWIW, there's an implementation of the "old" network terminal protocol
> > in the DECnet/Linux kit; with some hacking you can probably port that
> > and use it to talk to DECnet/E that way.
>
> The DECnet/Linux implementation is so bad that I'd say it's unusable.
> (Atleast when I tested to/from an RSX system.)

I've had no trouble with it using it to communicate with VAX/VMS. The
author of most of it on the other hand..!

alex/melt
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