[Info-vax] What would you miss if DECnet got the chop? Was: "bad select 38" (OpenSSL on VMS)

[David Froble]

Craig A. Berry wrote:
> On 10/2/16 8:14 AM, David Froble wrote:
>> Dirk Munk wrote:
> 
>>> Multinet is offering a kind of DECnet Phase IV over IP interface,
>>> using IP port 700. It is not covered by any RFC. I don't know if it
>>> can be used with IPv6.
>>>
>>> The DEC/HP way of DECnet over IP is not only offering DECnet over IP,
>>> but also OSI over IP (you can look at DECnet as just another OSI
>>> application). It is covered by three RFC's, RFC1006, RFC1859, and
>>> RFC2126, the latter is for IPv6.
>>>
>>> Both versions of DECnet over IP are incompatible.
>>>
>>> Now my simple question is, what should VSI offer, two incompatible
>>> versions of DECnet over IP?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> If you look up thread at Michael Moroney's post, you'll see the
>> reality.  He got DECnet built, but that's all the time VSI is going to
>> put into DECnet.
> 
> Why do you think that providing an IP transport for DECnet would involve
> modifying DECNet?
> 

I certainly, at least I think so, never suggested that.

The DECnet IV transport over Multinet I'm guessing is totally in Multinet.

The ability of DECnet V to use IP is I'm guessing totally in DECnet V.

Note that I'm just guessing, I do not "know".