In article <4.2.0.58.19990819081818.009bda40@3am-software.com>,
   Matt Thomas wrote:
>At 02:18 AM 8/19/99 , Patrick Caulfield wrote:
>>If someone can port the kernel bits from Linux to NetBSD (this will also
>>require 'porting' the licence from GPL to BSD but Steve Whitehouse has
>>already consented to this) then I'll do the userland programs...promise.

>Actually, I'm about 1/2 way through my own Phase IV implementation (endnode,
>LAN only) and have been for a year or so.  I never finished it since no one
>had ever seemed interested in DECnet.  I even have a working ncp.  I also
>have DECnet-ULTRIX compatible libdnet library.

>The kernel API is also compatible with DECnet-ULTRIX so that COMPAT_ULTRIX
>could do the right thing as well.

>[I have a slight advantage over other people in doing this as I spent 10 years
>working on DECnet and LAT for ULTRIX and Digital UNIX.  DECnet I can do in my
>sleep. :-)]
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>Matt Thomas               Internet:   matt@3am-software.com
>3am Software Foundry      WWW URL:    http://www.3am-software.com/bio/matt/
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We've got a ton of old DEC equipment around (terminal servers, etc.) and
would love to be able to continue to use it after all our VMS/Ultrix systems
go away (due to non-y2k compliance).  I believe that NetBSD's mopd can at
least boot them, but after that most of them will only talk LAT over DECnet.

We'd be willing to test any implementation you could make available.  And
I'm sure a lot of the people over in port-vax and port-pmax would also be
happy to help...

jdarrow

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