[HECnet] HECnet mapping project

[Rob Jarratt]

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE]
On Behalf Of Johnny Billquist
Sent: 26 December 2012 01:24
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Cc: sampsa at mac.com
Subject: Re: [HECnet] HECnet mapping project

On 2012-12-26 02:13, sampsa at mac.com wrote:

On 26 Dec 2012, at 03:00, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:


Yuck. Seriously, if you depend on manual information, it's going to be
broken sooner or later.

I'm not at all clear what the problem is, though. I can, from MIM, tell
which areas are online. And for each area, you can check which nodes are
online in that area. After that, it just becomes a question of figuring
out how
the bits are connected.


The problem is the CISCO gear doesnt talk NCP, so we can't do stuff like
SHOW KNOW CIRC (to get routers to walk) or SHOW ADJ NODES (to get end
nodes).

If the CISCO guys want on the map, it'll have to be manual for now....

You'll have the same problem with Rob's DECnet router... And possibly
other
equipment, or nodes that don't want to talk NICE.



I have just downloaded the spec and will think about how easy it would be to
add this to the router, not that anyone other than me uses it :-(




	Johnny