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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2016-10-03 kl. 09:12, skrev Dirk Munk:
> Michael Moroney wrote:
>> David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>>
>>> Dirk Munk wrote:
>>
>>>> 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.
>>
>>> What you see today is all that you're ever going to see, with the
>>> understanding
>>> of "never say never".  Your question(s) are already answered.  Not that
>>> you're
>>> going to like the answer(s).
>>
>> Without looking into it, I would assume OSI over IP is just another user
>> of IP and it "should work" with Multinet/the VSI IP.  But perhaps the
>> DECnet V people conspired with the DEC TCPIP people to use an undocumented
>> interface.  But we should already know the answer.  Does DECnet-Plus over
>> IP work at all with the current Multinet implementation?
>
> According to the DECnet-Plus SPD, only the HP IP stack is supported. It
> does not explicitly say that no other IP stack works of course.
>
> DECnet-Plus relies on the PWIP driver, it must be loaded.
>
> DECnet-plus at present uses RFC1006 and RFC1859. For DECnet-Plus to use
> IPv6, RFC2126 should also be implemented.

It would surprice me a lot to see any such new development.