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

Bob Armstrong bob at jfcl.com
Fri May 17 14:49:40 PDT 2013


     DECnet (NCP) has a TRIGGER command that sends a special MOP message to a remote machine, and that   s supposed to force the machine to do a hard reset and the reboot, presumably via DECnet.     It   s for machines that are located in remote locations where there   s no operator around to conveniently flip the RESTART toggle.
  
   The problem is that it doesn   t seem like there are many PDP-11 or VAX communications interfaces that actually implement this.   The DMR and DMC appear to, but as far as I can find those are the only ones.   In particular there don   t appear to be any QBUS interfaces that can do it.     Have I missed any?   Has anybody ever done this?   What interface did you use?      Thanks,
Bob
  



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