[Info-vax] Decnet over IPv6?

[Dirk Munk]

Dirk Munk wrote:
> 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.

Hoff mentions on his pages that RFC 2126 deals with Decnet over IPv4 and 
IPv6. This RFC is a successor for RFC 1006, it was written by a DEC 
engineer, and it dates from March 1997. Has it never been implemented? 
Hoff should know I hope.