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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-10-06 05:32, Michael Moroney wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, Michael. That really sounds like it is as expected (at least by me).

Maybe we can lay this argument to rest now? And I assume the people at 
Process can answer any questions, but if you want some talk on the 
multinet links, I'm happy to help as well.

	Johnny

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