you could also try to install CMU-IP. what version of VMS is this? 
it was once a popular free tcpip for VMS.. it should still be findable 
around here somewhere in some dusty directory on an ftp server.. 

On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Gunther Schadow wrote:
> - Screw multinet and find some DECnet implementation for FreeBSD.
>    Heck, obviously Linux has a DECnet support, so why don't we?
>    The serial port is just not an option to move the several
>    hundred MB of ULTRIX data over.

Also, an ultrix box has decnet support as well. 

Isildur