hi guys,

can anyone give me some information about programming a pwip interface for the decnet stack. I have to use the callup and calldown vecotrs. But there is not much information available on the net. I have to make use of streams programming to write api's like bind, connect , accept etc by sending requests like T_BIND_REQ through mblk/dblk. Can anyone give me some leads as to how to start programming or any links which might be helpful for me

thx

wistler,

I do not have much time to write at this instant. So this will be brief.

DECnet does not use the PWIP interface. The DECnet stack uses several different programming models.

I recommend that you review the DECnet manuals on the OpenVMS www site at http://www.hp.com/go/openvms

If you want to use DECnet to exchange messages, as opposed to transparently move information, you will want to look under "non-Transparent Task to Task" communications.

I have done it on many projects. It is quite a reasonable programming API, but it is not just a different version of Berkley sockets.

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com