[HECnet] VMS system with guest login

[John Forecast]

> On May 7, 2020, at 12:53 PM, Robert Armstrong <bob at jfcl.com> wrote:
> 
>> John Forecast <john at forecast.name> wrote:
>> I’ve just got “show active circuits” and “show active nodes” support ...
> 
>  Sounds like we're working on the same thing.  I started out making a few changes to make Paul's HECnet mapper happy and so far I've
> 
>  * Fixed some careless casting of void* to integers that were causing compiler warnings.
>  * Rewrite send_exec() so that SHOW EXEC and SHOW EXEC CHAR return items more in line with other DECnet implementations.
>  * Fix SHOW KNOWN nodes so it sends the executor first and doesn't repeat it in the list.
>  * SHOW ADJACENT nodes should not send the executor - we're not adjacent to ourselves!
>  * Implement SHOW KNOWN|ACTIVE LINES|CIRCUITS
>  * currently working on implementing SHOW ACTIVE NODES
> 
>  You can try it on ZITI:: if you want.
> 
Unfortunately I don’t have any nodes on HECnet, I should really fix that.

>  BTW, how did you implement ACTIVE NODES (i.e. how did you determine which nodes are "active”)?
> 
The above list looks very similar to what I have running. ACTIVE NODES for a nonrouting node is defined as all nodes at the other end of a logical link, adjacent nodes and the designated router.

   John.

> Bob
>