[HECnet] PyDECnet

[G.]

On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 12:21:42 -0400, Thomas DeBellis wrote:

> llogin will sometimes work, often not, but almost always (and often) 
> fails without any sort of message whatsoever.  "Sort of" is very 
> generous, indeed, Johnny.  You're just silently put back into the 
> shell.  Unforgivable.
> 
> The only way to get to the bottom of it will be to attach a debugger and 
> see what's happening.

Unfortunately, at the time there was no known source for the LAT protocol
specification, hence the Linux support is the result of some serious reverse
engineering effort by Christine Caulfield.

Years later the specification surfaced on Bitsavers, thus the only piece
still missing is some brave soul willing to rewrite it from scratch :)

http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/dec/ethernet/lat/

Another nice protocol worth some thought would be LAST/LAD...

HTH, :)
G.