[HECnet] PyDECnet

[Wilm Boerhout]

And ONAPI4:: (29.206) is now running that version, splendid!

Wilm

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE <owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE> On Behalf Of
Paul Koning
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2021 7:20 PM
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] PyDECnet



> On Apr 16, 2021, at 10:00 AM, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On Apr 16, 2021, at 9:41 AM, Keith Halewood
<Keith.Halewood at pitbulluk.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> Just a thought.
>> 
>> Keith
> 
> Interesting idea.  Strictly speaking, that string is rather short, though
some other DECnet implementations send oversized values.
> 
> 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