[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:

>>> Unless I'm mistaken, you're writing that DECnet Phase IV over Mulinet
>>> tunnels should be implemented, but DECnet Phase V + OSI over IP "should
>>> not make sense".
>>
>> Uh! No. What I am writing (please reread it in case you still don't get
>> it) is that DECnet Phase IV over Multinets are *already* implemented,
>> and I don't think it make sense to start deleting that code.

>TCP/IP services 10.5 will not be the same as Multinet, it is *based* on 
>Multinet. Otherwise they could start shipping now.

VSI TCP/IP 10.5 starts out as Multinet. VSI is going to integrate it more
with VMS itself (the way that HP TCP/IP is now), rebranding and so forth.
And speeding things up. The LAN people are busy with a new interface to
the LAN drivers which will make LANs much faster (a VMS weak point) and
VSI TCP/IP 10.5 will be using the interface.  But unless someone breaks
something along the way, the DECnet IV tunnel over IP will just work.

As to Phase V over Multinet, this is still unknown.  And it will be a
business decision whether to try to get it working if it doesn't. That's
above my pay grade.