+
+Here are a few quick points about DECnet support...
+
+ o iproute2 is the tool of choice for configuring the DECnet support for
+ Linux. For many features, it is the only tool which can be used to
+ configure them.
+
+ o No name resolution is available as yet, all addresses must be
+ entered numerically.
+
+ o Remember to set the hardware address of the interface using:
+
+ ip link set ethX address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
+ (where xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx is the MAC address for your DECnet node
+ address)
+
+ if your Ethernet card won't listen to more than one unicast
+ mac address at once. If the Linux DECnet stack doesn't talk to
+ any other DECnet nodes, then check this with tcpdump and if its
+ a problem, change the mac address (but do this _before_ starting
+ any other network protocol on the interface)
+
+ o Whilst you can use ip addr add to add more than one DECnet address to an
+ interface, don't expect addresses which are not the same as the
+ kernels node address to work properly with 2.4 kernels. This should
+ be fine with 2.6 kernels as the routing code has been extensively
+ modified and improved.
+
+ o The DECnet support is currently self contained. It does not depend on
+ the libdnet library.
+
+Steve Whitehouse <steve@chygwyn.com>
+