Subject: Re: DECnet for NetBSD
To: John Darrow <John.P.Darrow@wheaton.edu>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 08/19/1999 08:52:43
At 08:49 AM 8/19/99 , John Darrow wrote:
>In article <4.2.0.58.19990819081818.009bda40@3am-software.com>,
>    Matt Thomas wrote:
> >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.
>
>
>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.

LAT is not part of DECnet.  That being said, I do have a LAT daemon that I've
also been working on (latd) which talk LAT over bpf and uses ptys.  It's 
nowhere near finished though.  (but you can connect to it via terminal servers).

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