README.decnet

   1
   2 Here are a few quick points about DECnet support...
   3
   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.
   7
   8  o No name resolution is available as yet, all addresses must be
   9    entered numerically.
  10
  11  o Remember to set the hardware address of the interface using:
  12
  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)
  16
  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)
  22
  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
  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.
  28
  29  o The DECnet support is currently self contained. It does not depend on
  30    the libdnet library.
  31
  32 Steve Whitehouse <steve@chygwyn.com>
  33