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Re: DECnet for Solaris

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by: Acceptable Name - Sun, 11 Jun 2023 10:23 UTC

On Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 9:45:54 AM UTC-4, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <639319524339975823.288365d...@news.szaf.org>, Dennis Grevenstein <dennis.gr...@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

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