[HECnet] PSTHRU object 123

[Mark Berryman]

The VAX image file, and associated documentation, is available here:
ALDUR::[.VAX87E.SEALUG.DECNETWORK.PSTHRU]

I was unable to find a source file anywhere in my archive.

Mark Berryman

> On Apr 3, 2019, at 8:08 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 
> 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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