[HECnet] Is MIM running?
Paul Koning
paulkoning at comcast.net
Wed Oct 20 09:54:53 PDT 2021
> On Oct 20, 2021, at 12:50 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/20/21 12:31 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
>>> Say, that is a very nice ping utility you have! Would you know where I could get the source to it or its theory of operation?
>> I wonder too. The DEC standard answer would be an "NCP loop node foo" command, which is an application protocol but a simple one (mirror, object 25).
>
> The ping command that he illustrated is from IOS on a Cisco router.
Ok, then it's anyone's guess what it does; Cisco doesn't really understand DECnet or know how to read the specs. It would be informative to capture a packet trace showing what was sent and received.
paul
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