Hi,
My latest DECnet patch is out (against 2.3.48) with the following features:
o Bug fix sending disc messages (from Eduardo Serrat <emserrat@xxxxxxxxxxx>)
o DECnet is now fully threaded (Correctly I hope!)
o Bug fix to receiving disc messages (complement to Eduardo's patch)
o Bug fix to make dnetd work once again
o DECnet is going to use netfilter to move routing packets to a userland
routing daemon, hence the new hooks and the increment of NF_MAX_HOOKS
which is why I've cc'd Rusty.
I don't normally send these announcements to netdev, but I'm doing so this
time as I've a question to ask which I'd like to read a wider audience
than usual...
Has anybody used DECnet raw sockets for anything?
So far as I'm aware nobody has. I added raw sockets to DECnet only to allow
a userland routing daemon (as yet unwritten) to read DECnet routing messages.
This can be much more easily acheived using netfilter so I'm proposing the
removal of raw sockets (they are probably not safe now with the new SMP
DECnet code anyway). If I don't hear any objections, I'll send in a patch
to remove DECnet raw sockets from the kernel in a week or so,
Steve.
P.S. The patch is in the usual place on ftp.sucs.swan.ac.uk and has been
submitted to the main kernel tree, so should appear shortly.
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