Re: Removing ARCNET stuffs

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

> Support for several legacy protocols was removed in recent years. I fear tha$

To an extent that's inevitable, because so much of the networking world
in general is becoming IP- and Ethernet-centric.

But I too find it regrettable and possibly dangerous.  One of my
copious-spare-time projects is to dig up enough specs to add a DECnet
stack to my systems; based on my experience with DECnet under Ultrix, I
think it would be a good test case for dealing with some of the IPisms.
(It wouldn't help much with Ethernet; DECnet does support serial links,
but NetBSD already has two network interfaces that support IP over
serial links too.)

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