[HECnet] PyDECnet

[Paul Koning]

> On Apr 16, 2021, at 10:00 AM, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
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>> On Apr 16, 2021, at 9:41 AM, Keith Halewood <Keith.Halewood at pitbulluk.org> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> A general point about pyDECnet usage. I leave the default 'Identification' string alone so that anybody interested can discover the version of pydecnet being used (SHOW EXEC CHAR). I have noticed that others tend to personalise the string, often removing that version number. Would it be possible to append your personalisation to the version rather than replace it? From a trouble-shooting point of view, knowing that two routers connected by a circuit are either same version or vastly different often helps.
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>> Just a thought.
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>> Keith
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> Interesting idea.  Strictly speaking, that string is rather short, though some other DECnet implementations send oversized values.
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> Another option would be to have the version information be a separate read-only parameter, that would be easy.

Done.  It turns out a suitable parameter already exists in the standard, parameter 126, "Software identification".  As of rev 583 that will report the PyDECnet version number.

	paul