13 Mar
2020
13 Mar
'20
8:54 p.m.
Yes, I know that it had to be reverse engineered (another reason we
never adopted it); that wasn't my chief beef.
I just think failing with no message whatsoever is an incredibly rude
thing to do.
On 3/13/20 3:14 PM, G. wrote:
On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 12:21:42 -0400, Thomas DeBellis
wrote:
llogin will sometimes work, often not, but almost
always (and often)
fails without any sort of message whatsoever.? "Sort of" is very
generous, indeed, Johnny.? You're just silently put back into the
shell.? Unforgivable.
The only way to get to the bottom of it will be to attach a debugger and
see what's happening.
Unfortunately, at the time there was no known source for
the LAT protocol
specification, hence the Linux support is the result of some serious reverse
engineering effort by Christine Caulfield.
Years later the specification surfaced on Bitsavers, thus the only piece
still missing is some brave soul willing to rewrite it from scratch :)
http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/dec/ethernet/lat/
Another nice protocol worth some thought would be LAST/LAD...
HTH, :)
G.