16 Oct
2022
16 Oct
'22
4:42 p.m.
On Oct 15, 2022, at 9:06 PM, Johnny Billquist
<bqt(a)softjar.se> wrote:
On 2022-10-15 20:39, Paul Koning wrote:
You can find most all images on MIM::DU:[5,54]*ENG*.SYS
Also, if I remember right, the DELUA manual (or if it was the DEUNA one), do contain a
lot about MOP, and you also have the free mopd which you can find in the NetBSD
distribution among other places.
Thanks. I have the MOP spec, of course (and since I wrote it I should remember it...)
What I was looking for is a trace of what VMS does, since reality doesn't always match
the spec. That, and an understanding of what loadable files look like, that's an
implementation specific detail not give in the DECNet specs.
paul
On Oct
15, 2022, at 10:32 AM, Dave McGuire <mcguire(a)neurotica.com> wrote:
...
LSSM has a big Itanium2 VMS machine that's our always-on HECnet node. It also
provides MOP services for our DECserver terminal servers, etc. Because the transatlantic
links can sometimes be a bit slow, and there are several RSX-11M-PLUS systems between LSSM
and my place, I maintain a local copy of the RPM repository on that system, that I copy
periodically from MIM:: and all local instances of rpm are configured to point at that.
One of these days I hope to add MOP load/dump to PyDECnet. For that some network
traces of how VMS loads a terminal server would be helpful, along with a copy of the image
it uses.