DECnet/E and DECnet-Plus

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Sat Jan 31 12:22:46 2004

Fred,
>What I did notice is that DEQNA's (and DELQA's) quite often drop packets
>as soon as traffic gets heavier on the network. I tested this at the
>raw-iron level (my own bare-metal test code) so that is not an OS-
>driver issue. Under E11, I did not see this weirdness happen, so it
>is a real-hardware thing.

Have you ever gotten DECnet/E running on E11? Has anyone? I forget where it dies, but IIRC, it gets as far as the reboot after the install, then it can no longer find the ethernet adapter.

                        Zane

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