MOP vs. Cisco, was Re: [HECnet] _PROVISIONAL_ map of HECnet, courtesy largely of Brian H.

=46rom NCP? You can't do a "tell node connect..." Type thing can you? The p= roblem is MOP isn't routed so a connection to the router would have to happe= n from something local. "Tell" speaks NML, cisco only implements Decnet routing and forwaring, l2 and l3..... -P Ian Sent from my iPad On 2013-01-07, at 10:02 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: On 01/08/2013 12:53 AM, Ian McLaughlin wrote: The problem with ssh is it's "out of band" as far as hecnet is concerned. It would be nice if the discovery was purely decnet. =20 True. =20 Well, if one can define access lists using DECnet addresses as filter terms, I'd be ok with that, for nonprivileged access. =20 I've just verified that a MOP console request works from Linux using locally-stored authentication on the IOS side to establish a nonprivileged IOS CLI session on a 7206VXR running IOS 12.3(22), like so: =20 $ moprc -v <MAC address> =20 ...and like this from NCP under VMS: =20 NCP> connect node gw physical address <MAC address> via <circuit-name> =20 Note that the MAC address must have its octets delimited by colons under Linux, and hyphens under VMS. =20 -Dave =20 --=20 Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA =20 =20 --- Filter service subscribers can train this email as spam or not-spam here: = http://my.email-as.net/spamham/cgi-bin/learn.pl?messageid=3D0AB18D20595911= E28A4BA96E93ED0201