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