[Info-vax] Decnet over IPv6?
Dirk Munk
munk at home.nl
Thu Sep 4 10:46:37 EDT 2014
Henry Crun wrote:
> On 04/09/14 14:27, Dirk Munk wrote:
>> I have installed the IPv6 drivers of VMS, and it is working. A telnet
>> session
>> from my PC to my emulated Alpha is using IPv6. So far so good. The
>> PWIP driver
>> that is used by Decnet plus for the IP transport layer is also IPv6
>> ready, and
>> has been so for a while. There are no configuration options for the
>> PWIP driver.
>> There is an RFC that deals with Decnet plus over IPv6, so it seems
>> that in
>> theory it should work. But alas no IPv6 address with mc ncl show node
>> 0. Has
>> anyone tried this, and can it work?
>
> from the faq
> 15.3.1 Can DECnet-Plus operate over IP?
>
> Yes. To configure DECnet-Plus to operate over IP transport and over IP
> backbone networks, install and configure DECnet-Plus, and install and
> configure the PWIP mechanism available within the currently-installed IP
> stack. Within TCP/IP Services, this is a PWIPDRIVER configuration option
> within the UCX$CONFIG (versions prior to V5.0) or TCPIP$CONFIG (with
> V5.0 and later) configuration tool.
>
I was asking about >> IPv6 <<, I already have it running over IPv4, that
is no problem.
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