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

[Michael Moroney]

Dirk Munk <munk at home.nl> writes:

>Michael Moroney wrote:
>>
>> 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.

>You should be able to see in the sources of DECnet-Plus and TCPIP 
>services how these two products interconnect, we can't do that.

I will take a look in my copious spare time :-) at the DECnet/IP code
to see what's going on and what would be needed.  I have no idea when....