[Info-vax] Unexpected DECnet Phase IV functionality with possible captive account implications

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-05-17, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG <VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
> In article <s7tn9s$oih$3 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>>On 2021-05-16, ultr... at gmail.com <ultradwc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I was told by Process Software years ago that "for a price" they could make it possible to run their TCPware Decnet Phase IV over IP connection thru an SSH tunnel.
>>>
>>> If Process can do it why hasn't HP then or VSI now done it already?
>>>
>>> Why is your answer one of directing users to shy away from using a great protocol and one that makes OpenVMS unique?
>>>
>>
>>There's nothing great about DECnet in 2021. When it was created
>>it was a good protocol for the time, but that time passed decades ago.
>
> Please tell me now to SYS$OPEN a file on another host with TCP/IP.
>

Times change Brian and how you implement such things changes as well.

There are multiple options. You could use CIFS or NFS (for example).

There's work going on with filesystems over SSH. Whether VMS will ever
see any of that work is another matter.

If the other node is in a VMS cluster, you don't need DECnet.

For an example of a different approach in the Linux world, there's GFS2:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFS2

Simon.

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