[HECnet] PSTHRU object 123

On Apr 3, 2019, at 8:08 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote: I think this was mentioned before. I suspect I have an RSX version with sources, but there might be an issue with sharing them. However, I could certainly answer questions... Johnny Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> skrev: (3 april 2019 15:29:41 CEST) On Apr 3, 2019, at 2:54 AM, G. <gerry77 at mail.com> wrote: Hello everyone, :) while doing some housekeeping in one of my VMS systems I just came across the PSTHRU.EXE DECnet tool for VAX which I downloaded from some place I could not remember anymore, maybe some freeware collection. PSTHRU.EXE implements DECnet PMR (Poor's Man Routing), ... $ SET HOST GATEWY::OTHRGW::HIDDEN:: With the exception of FAL and MAIL, whenever DECnet finds that a connection string to some remote network object contains a list of nodes rather than just one, it redirects that connection request to object 123 on the leftmost node of the list. I had in my memory that it used object 63. Thanks. My goal is to reverse engineer this protocol at some point and create a new implementation. If sources for it turn up (for any OS) that would help a lot. It can't be very much code. FAL doesn't explicitly do PMR at all; instead it "just works" provided the intermediate nodes are VMS, because of transparent network access in RMS32. paul -- Skickat fr?n min Android-enhet med K-9 Mail. Urs?kta min f?ordighet.