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

Dirk Munk munk at home.nl
Thu Oct 6 11:01:00 EDT 2016


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.
>
  That's not quite the same as you wrote before about this subject:

"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."

But perhaps someone higher up had other ideas?



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