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

[Scott Dorsey]

In article <AZLDz.728601$m8.468680 at fx12.ams1>, Dirk Munk  <munk at home.nl> wrote:
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>Yes, and if you had switched to DECnet Phase V over IP, your network 
>guys would never have known you're using DECnet. No need for tunnels, 
>completely transparent.

We did that around fifteen years ago.  It's completely transparent when
everything is working perfectly but as soon as there are performance issues,
diagnosis becomes a problem because the networking people are not used to
seeing that traffic.

>If your community would have done that, you still could be using DECnet. 
>In fact if you're still using VMS, you can set it up now, it will take 
>about 15 minutes per server, and you will have your full DECnet 
>functionality back. Except for perhaps some firewall settings (port 
>numbers), your  network guys will have no idea.

We're using VMS and we're using IP and it's just fine.
--scott

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