[Info-vax] DECnet for Solaris

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2011-10-11 14.41, ChrisQ wrote:
> On 10/11/11 00:05, Dennis Grevenstein wrote:
>> Johnny Billquist<bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>>
>>> I didn't think that existed. I thought DECnet support went out
>>> together with SunOS 4.
>>
>> There has definitly been as version for Solaris.
>> I have even found Y2K patches for the Sunlink DNI product.
>> The Readme says that it supports Solaris 2.6. Whether it
>> works on anything newer, I really don't know.
>>
>> Dennis
>>
>
> I remember seeing that in the sun select (?) catalogs at some time and
> may be able to find the
> part number, if that's any help. Have you checked with sun to see if its
> still available ?.
>
> One alternative might be to have a look at the linux decnet driver and
> see if that will compile
> under solaris. The open solaris project (not Oracle may even have it
> included already...

That sounded more than a little bit optimistic. The day kernel code from 
one OS will work inside another OS without modification have not yet 
come (although some specific cases come close, but then they usually 
originate from the same source).

	Johnny