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 (a] chygwyn.com> 33 34
