[HECnet] Is MIM running?

[Paul Koning]

Thanks!  BTW, I've been doing some work on Wireshark to fix its DECnet decoding, there are quite a bunch of errors in there.

	paul

> On Oct 20, 2021, at 12:59 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
> 
> On 10/20/21 12:54 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.
> 
>  Seems to work pretty well here, and has for the better part of thirty years, for me.
> 
>  If I get any desk time soon I'll see if I can capture some traces for you.
> 
>            -Dave
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