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

[Bob Armstrong]

Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:
boot support doesn't make any sense in a software
DDCMP implementation ....

  I was also wondering if, say, the DLV11 DDCMP driver in DECnet implemented
booting.   As you say, it's not as useful as an independent hardware boot in
the controller, but it would work as long as enough of the OS is still alive
to process DLV11 interrupts.   You've got maybe a 50-50 chance, but even
still - async DECnet was a low end solution so you expect low end results
:-)

  The DDCMP driver wouldn't have to actually do the boot - there is a DECnet
boot ROM for asynchronous interfaces already, and you could just assume that
was already set up.   All the DDCMP driver would have to do is start it.

Bob