[Info-vax] DECnet for Solaris

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On Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 9:45:54 AM UTC-4, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <639319524339975823.288365d... at news.szaf.org>, Dennis Grevenstein <dennis.gr... at gmail.com> writes: 
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > after starting a flamewar in comp.unix.solaris, it can't hurt 
> > to also mess up comp.os.vms ;-) 
> > I am looking for an old software for Sun Solaris that provided 
> > DECnet connectivity. The name was Sunlink DNI. It is probably 
> > 10 or 20 years old. Just about any version will be worth a try. 
> > Best would be a version that runs on Solaris 9 SPARC, but 
> > as I said, any version will be worth a try.
> I know Sun sold such a product for Solaris. I also know that 
> KiResearch sold a DECnet product for a great many platforms, 
> including SunOS. But unless Sun (Oracle) or KiResearch is 
> willing to sell them now, I don't know of any way to get them. 
> 
> You might look into the DECnet package for Linux, but if it 
> includes kernel code (it probably does), then porting it to 
> Solaris would be non-trivial.

There is DECnet in that old backup tape of 4.1c BSD in the CSRG ISO set.

$ ls -1 4.1c.1/sys/netdecnet/*
4.1c.1/sys/netdecnet/decnet.h
4.1c.1/sys/netdecnet/dn_systm.h
4.1c.1/sys/netdecnet/nsp.h
4.1c.1/sys/netdecnet/nsp_input.c
4.1c.1/sys/netdecnet/nsp_output.c
4.1c.1/sys/netdecnet/nsp_seq.h
4.1c.1/sys/netdecnet/nsp_subr.c
4.1c.1/sys/netdecnet/nsp_usrreq.c
4.1c.1/sys/netdecnet/nsp_var.h
4.1c.1/sys/netdecnet/s.tp.h
4.1c.1/sys/netdecnet/tp.h
4.1c.1/sys/netdecnet/tp_input.c
4.1c.1/sys/netdecnet/tp_output.c
4.1c.1/sys/netdecnet/tp_usrreq.c
4.1c.1/sys/netdecnet/tp_var.h

4.1c.1/sys/netdecnet/SCCS:
s.decnet.h
s.dn_systm.h
s.nsp.h
s.nsp_input.c
s.nsp_output.c
s.nsp_seq.h
s.nsp_subr.c
s.nsp_usrreq.c
s.nsp_var.h
s.tp_input.c
s.tp_output.c
s.tp_usrreq.c
s.tp_var.h