[Info-vax] DECnet for Solaris

[John Wallace]

On Oct 11, 1:41 pm, ChrisQ <m... at devnull.com> wrote:
> On 10/11/11 00:05, Dennis Grevenstein wrote:
>
> > Johnny Billquist<b... 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...
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris

DECnet for Linux was "orphaned" last year (ie it no longer had a
maintainer), and the kernel has moved on since then. There must be
userland components too, not sure why they need be kernel-specific,
but it sounds like Tru64 is a good answer.