[Info-vax] Help wanted : Porting code from Linux to VMS

[John Forkosh]

Marc Van Dyck <marc.gr.vandyck at invalid.skynet.be> wrote:
> <<snip>>
> The thing that I will need to port/rewrite is something that has been
> written more than 10 years ago. It involves communicating between two
> systems, and if one of the two will be VMS, the other one will remain
> Linux and on this one nothing can and will be changed. So I will have
> to re-implement, one way or another, exactly the same protocol. I think
> it is just raw tcp, but I haven't had a chance to look at the code yet.
> But in any case, migrating to TLS or IPv6 is out of question, as I
> don't control what I'm talking to at the other end.
> <<snip>>

Probably of no help to you nowadays, but take a look at
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excelan
"...The company offered a line of Ethernet 'front end processor' boards
 for Multibus, VMEbus, Q-Bus, Unibus ... that integrated the cards into
 a variety of operating system environments, including many flavors of
 UNIX, RSX-11, VMS, and DOS."

If you could get a card and its accompanying software >>for your Itanium
bus<<, it would be an almost transparent port, at least the tcp/ip part.
I used that card in an 11/780 during a 1988-89 contract for Chase bank.
Mostly udp datagrams, and it was almost 100% identical/transparent to
native networking calls.
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John Forkosh  ( mailto:  j at f.com  where j=john and f=forkosh )