3 Apr
2019
3 Apr
'19
3:29 p.m.
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