[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:

>It just occurred to me that you will have to look into these matters anyway.

>TCP/IP services 10.5 will be based on Multinet, and Multinet has a PWIP 
>driver.

>DECnet-Plus is build on top of the PWIP driver, so you will have to 
>check if the Multinet PWIP driver is DECnet-Plus compatible, or perhaps 
>use the HPE PWIP driver?

>Multinet also has a full blown IPv6 implementation, does that also apply 
>to their PWIP driver?

>Interesting issues to sort out for VSI.

Yes, you're right. The issue of whether DECnet V over IP works will come
up when the new stack work gets going. Nobody here is going to let the
new stack break things, I'm sure.

Of interest to many, I had to get into the DECnet V files yesterday,
unrelated to this discussion, and I noticed there was an "IPV6" class in
the CMS libraries.  But it is based on an old release and it appears little
was done. It was probably cancelled or postponed indefinitely pretty early
on. So if the time ever comes I have a little something.  But we won't have
anything that wasn't "checked in" that would have been in the private
directories of the people working on it.

Right now I know little of OSI or the three RFCs for OSI over IP, the
PWIP driver or Multinet.  I will be trying Multinet on test systems
shortly.