[HECnet] PyDECnet setup

[Paul Koning]

Not at the moment, and it's a large change to the design to allow configuration to change at runtime.

I have done a bit of work to allow "change" type NICE requests, starting with the "zero counters" request.  That isn't done yet.

A specific change that should be small and straightforward is updating the list of node name/address pairs.  I'm thinking of doing that in the network mapper, since it already fetches the current list from MIM.  Right now that updates the mapper data but not the main DECnet node list.  Once it does that, you'd be able to do the NCP "copy from 28NH" request for NCPs that implement that, or an equivalent script, to get the current database.

	paul

> On Nov 17, 2021, at 11:42 AM, Brian Hechinger <wonko at 4amlunch.net> wrote:
> 
> Speaking of the API, would it be possible to configure pydecnet via the API?
> 
> -brian
> 
> On 17/11/21 14:54, Paul Koning wrote:
>> BTW, I'm still trying to figure out how best to construct the API.  What's there now seems clumsy.  The existing network application API (see decnet/application/mirror.py) feels more like what I want, but I need to go back and see how best to work that for requests initiated from the outside, as opposed to subprocesses started from PyDECnet.
>> 
>> 	paul
>> 
>>> On Nov 17, 2021, at 9:44 AM, Brian Hechinger <wonko at 4amlunch.net <mailto:wonko at 4amlunch.net>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Read documentation? Heathen. :-P
>>> 
>>> Got a systemd unit file written for it and it's up and running for good now. Woo!
>>> 
>>> Now to figure out what I can do with the API.
>>> 
>>> -brian
>>> 

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