[HECnet] PSTHRU object 123

[Johnny Billquist]

I think this was mentioned before. I suspect I have an RSX version with sources, but there might be an issue with sharing them.

However, I could certainly answer questions...

  Johnny 

Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> skrev: (3 april 2019 15:29:41 CEST)
>
>
>> On Apr 3, 2019, at 2:54 AM, G. <gerry77 at mail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello everyone, :)
>> 
>> 	while doing some housekeeping in one of my VMS systems I just came
>> across the PSTHRU.EXE DECnet tool for VAX which I downloaded from
>some place
>> I could not remember anymore, maybe some freeware collection.
>> 
>> PSTHRU.EXE implements DECnet PMR (Poor's Man Routing), ...
>> $ SET HOST GATEWY::OTHRGW::HIDDEN::
>> 
>> With the exception of FAL and MAIL, whenever DECnet finds that a
>connection
>> string to some remote network object contains a list of nodes rather
>than
>> just one, it redirects that connection request to object 123 on the
>leftmost
>> node of the list. 
>
>I had in my memory that it used object 63.  Thanks.  My goal is to
>reverse engineer this protocol at some point and create a new
>implementation.  If sources for it turn up (for any OS) that would help
>a lot.  It can't be very much code.
>
>FAL doesn't explicitly do PMR at all; instead it "just works" provided
>the intermediate nodes are VMS, because of transparent network access
>in RMS32.
>
>	paul

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