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2 | Here are a few quick points about DECnet support... | |
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4 | o iproute2 is the tool of choice for configuring the DECnet support for |
5 | Linux. For many features, it is the only tool which can be used to | |
6 | configure them. | |
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8 | o No name resolution is available as yet, all addresses must be |
9 | entered numerically. | |
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11 | o Remember to set the hardware address of the interface using: |
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13 | ip link set ethX address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx | |
14 | (where xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx is the MAC address for your DECnet node | |
15 | address) | |
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17 | if your Ethernet card won't listen to more than one unicast |
18 | mac address at once. If the Linux DECnet stack doesn't talk to | |
19 | any other DECnet nodes, then check this with tcpdump and if its | |
20 | a problem, change the mac address (but do this _before_ starting | |
21 | any other network protocol on the interface) | |
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23 | o Whilst you can use ip addr add to add more than one DECnet address to an | |
24 | interface, don't expect addresses which are not the same as the | |
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25 | kernels node address to work properly with 2.4 kernels. This should |
26 | be fine with 2.6 kernels as the routing code has been extensively | |
27 | modified and improved. | |
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29 | o The DECnet support is currently self contained. It does not depend on | |
30 | the libdnet library. | |
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32 | Steve Whitehouse <steve@chygwyn.com> | |
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