On Oct 23, 2018, at 3:54 AM, Johnny Eriksson <bygg
at cafax.se> wrote:
supratim sanyal wrote:
Johnny,
The other Johnny will now give a short answer:
I am suddenly seeing this from IMPVAX. Not sure
what to make of this
$ dir mim::
%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 23-OCT-2018 04:15:10.77 %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user DECNET on IMPVAX
DECnet event 4.18, adjacency down
From node 1.559 (IMPVAX), 23-OCT-2018 04:15:10.77
Circuit TCP-0-0, Unexpected packet type, Adjacent node = 1.13 (MIM)
Packet beginning = 010D040140020200002C010000000000
The packet in question is an init packet, used to start up a link.
If tcpdump knew about this, it would look somewhat like:
Init, 1.13 info 01 size 576 ver 2/0/0 timer 300
Why MIM decided to restart the link is another question.
I would guess that is a Multinet link, right? A conforming DECnet implementation would
not send an init message without restarting the data link layer first, which would produce
a "circuit down" event. So the unexpected packet type is indeed a reasonable
complaint for it to generate.
paul