[HECnet] Which DECnet interfaces support remote, unattended, booting?

[Paul_Koning at Dell.com]

On May 17, 2013, at 1:00 PM, Bob Armstrong wrote:


Paul_Koning at Dell.com
the one that requires hardware help -- is Boot.1

It occurs to me that there's a better way - several versions of the DLV11
(e.g. -E) could assert BHALT when a break was detected.   You could do that
on the async DECnet DDCMP line.   Unfortunately I think that only gets you to
console ODT and not an actual reboot.   Now, if you took a soldering iron to
the DLV11-E and hacked it ever so slightly so that break asserted BINIT
instead, I think it'd actually work.

Of course you'd need the host side to send a break - I don't imagine
DECnet could do that.

No, that's not a DECnet or MOP feature.   It's not hard to do, of course, given support in the sending system's UART.

	paul