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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: decnet on a 5820
Keywords: decnet, ultrix 3.1c, help!
Message-ID: <10855@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 14 Apr 90 03:41:00 GMT
References: <727@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <727@vela.acs.oakland.edu> schemers@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Roland Schemers III) writes:
> Hello! I have just set up our new 5820 (5810 till 4.0 :-( ), and am 
> having trouble getting DECNET to work. DECNET was a piece of cake on all
> the other systems, but it doesn't work on the 5820. It installs ok,
> the config file has the DECNET option,  but when I run ncp it shows
> no know circuits or lines! I tried to define a circuit called
> BNT-0 and it lets me. But then when I do a 'list known circuits' it
> shows none!

The device is called XNA-0 on the 5800's.  You also have to do a little
trick where you rename /usr/etc/nml.031 to /usr/etc/nml so that it knows
about this device.  This is described somewhere in the fine print in the
Ultrix 3.1C release notes.  There are still some bugs even after this
change, but at least you should be able to get decnet up.

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