[HECnet] Phase V Routing Specification

[Rob Jarratt]

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE]
On Behalf Of Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-
Sent: 18 December 2012 20:51
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: RE: [HECnet] Phase V Routing Specification

"Rob Jarratt" <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com> writes:

My user mode DECnet router has started telling me that it is getting
messages for routing specification version 2.2.0. Phase IV is 2.0.0. I
am assuming this is Phase V messages because there has been talk about
this recently.

Does anyone have a link to the Phase V Routing Specification?

The specs for OSI were huge.

Will this link help you any?

http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/decnet/EK-DNAPV-
GD_DECnet_Phase_V_General_Description_Sep87.pdf


Thanks for the link. I had a quick look. It does not go into the details of
the message formats, but it does say it interoperates with Phase IV, so I
just wonder if it was sufficient for me to accept Phase V messages as if
they were Phase IV and just ignore the version bytes. I might just give that
a quick go, which host is Phase V on HECnet now?



Other that this, you're best bet would be the DECNET Documentation.
It should all be on-line at http://HP.COM/go/OpenVMS.

Looking at the docs here: http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/decnetplus.html it
would seem that there are no docs on the routing specification.

Regards

Rob