7 Jul
2023
7 Jul
'23
10:39 p.m.
Where are all of these spelled out? I had looked in the Phase IV NSP
functional specification (NSP401.TXT) for them, but only a few seem to
be there.
The background is that I have further enhanced Kermit-20 to use direct
monitor connections when doing remote terminals and also to print the
text of a disconnect. I duly copied over the list in MONSYM, Etc.,
Etc., Etc. Earlier this week, I put some more contingency code into FAL
to handle server crashes. Basically, the controller would sit in a loop
forever restarting crashed server (DAP) forks. Now it waits a while and
stops completely after a certain number of restarts.
While I was at it, I checked its list and found that it was missing text
for disconnect codes 10, 11, 21, 22 and 23. Well, I put it in but got
to wondering what others there might be. Right now Tops-20 Kermit and
DAP know about the following:
*Code*
*Reason Text*
0
Reject or disconnect by object
1
Resource allocation failure
2
Destination node does not exist
3
Remote node shutting down
4
Destination process does not exist
5
Invalid process name field
6
Object is busy
7
Unspecified error
8
Third party abort)
9
User abort (asynchronous disconnect)
/10/
/Invalid node name/
/11/
/Local node shut down/
/21/
/Connect Initiate with illegal destination address/
/22/
/Connect confirm with illegal destination address/
/23/
/Connect initiate or confirm with zero source address/
24
Flow control violation
32
Too many connections to node
33
Too many connections to destination process
34
Access not permitted
35
Logical link services mismatch
36
Invalid account
37
Segment size too small
38
No response from destination process
39
No path to destination node
40
Link aborted due to data loss
41
Destination process does not exist
42
Confirmation of Disconnect Initiate
43
Image data field too long
7 Jul
7 Jul
10:48 p.m.
Ih Phase IV, mostly they are listed in the Session Control layer spec, since this is
considered part of that layer -- with the exception of the ones that have special meaning
in NSP.
The Phase II NSP document also lists them, and has one more (24, flow control violation).
I don't recognize 10, 11, 21, 22, and 32 from anywhere; those may be imaginary or they
may be OS specific codes that some OS added. Does DECnet/20 generate those?
paul
On Jul 7, 2023, at 4:39 PM, Thomas DeBellis
<tommytimesharing(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Where are all of these spelled out? I had looked in the Phase IV NSP functional
specification (NSP401.TXT) for them, but only a few seem to be there.
The background is that I have further enhanced Kermit-20 to use direct monitor
connections when doing remote terminals and also to print the text of a disconnect. I
duly copied over the list in MONSYM, Etc., Etc., Etc. Earlier this week, I put some more
contingency code into FAL to handle server crashes. Basically, the controller would sit
in a loop forever restarting crashed server (DAP) forks. Now it waits a while and stops
completely after a certain number of restarts.
While I was at it, I checked its list and found that it was missing text for disconnect
codes 10, 11, 21, 22 and 23. Well, I put it in but got to wondering what others there
might be. Right now Tops-20 Kermit and DAP know about the following:
Code
Reason Text
0
Reject or disconnect by object
1
Resource allocation failure
2
Destination node does not exist
3
Remote node shutting down
4
Destination process does not exist
5
Invalid process name field
6
Object is busy
7
Unspecified error
8
Third party abort)
9
User abort (asynchronous disconnect)
10
Invalid node name
11
Local node shut down
21
Connect Initiate with illegal destination address
22
Connect confirm with illegal destination address
23
Connect initiate or confirm with zero source address
24
Flow control violation
32
Too many connections to node
33
Too many connections to destination process
34
Access not permitted
35
Logical link services mismatch
36
Invalid account
37
Segment size too small
38
No response from destination process
39
No path to destination node
40
Link aborted due to data loss
41
Destination process does not exist
42
Confirmation of Disconnect Initiate
43
Image data field too long
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11:06 p.m.
More:
The session control spec makes a distinction between connect error codes and reason codes
as they appear in the protocol. For example, codes 20, 11, and 39 are error codes but not
protocol codes. The reason is that 10 and 11 are internal errors -- if you get this then
nothing was sent on the wire -- and 39 is the outcome of something entirely different in
the protocol -- either a routing layer error return, or a message being returned to sender
as unreachable.
The description of 41 looks wrong; 41 as a protocol code means "no link
terminate" which is what NSP sends in response to an NSP message that refers to a
logical link address (connection identifier) that isn't currently active. That has
nothing to do with the destination process; it normally occurs if the destination node has
restarted, or if there was a network outage long enough for the destination to delete the
connection but the source did not do likewise.
Code 42 is internal to the NSP protocol; you would never see that code come back to an
application as a status value. It's merely the encoding of the message that acks a
disconnect initiate; think of it as an ACK that's encoded a bit strangely.
paul
On Jul 7, 2023, at 4:39 PM, Thomas DeBellis
<tommytimesharing(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Where are all of these spelled out? I had looked in the Phase IV NSP functional
specification (NSP401.TXT) for them, but only a few seem to be there.
The background is that I have further enhanced Kermit-20 to use direct monitor
connections when doing remote terminals and also to print the text of a disconnect. I
duly copied over the list in MONSYM, Etc., Etc., Etc. Earlier this week, I put some more
contingency code into FAL to handle server crashes. Basically, the controller would sit
in a loop forever restarting crashed server (DAP) forks. Now it waits a while and stops
completely after a certain number of restarts.
While I was at it, I checked its list and found that it was missing text for disconnect
codes 10, 11, 21, 22 and 23. Well, I put it in but got to wondering what others there
might be. Right now Tops-20 Kermit and DAP know about the following:
Code
Reason Text
0
Reject or disconnect by object
1
Resource allocation failure
2
Destination node does not exist
3
Remote node shutting down
4
Destination process does not exist
5
Invalid process name field
6
Object is busy
7
Unspecified error
8
Third party abort)
9
User abort (asynchronous disconnect)
10
Invalid node name
11
Local node shut down
21
Connect Initiate with illegal destination address
22
Connect confirm with illegal destination address
23
Connect initiate or confirm with zero source address
24
Flow control violation
32
Too many connections to node
33
Too many connections to destination process
34
Access not permitted
35
Logical link services mismatch
36
Invalid account
37
Segment size too small
38
No response from destination process
39
No path to destination node
40
Link aborted due to data loss
41
Destination process does not exist
42
Confirmation of Disconnect Initiate
43
Image data field too long
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11:48 p.m.
Here is what I see in the RSX sources:
;
; Phase III Session Control error reason codes returned
; with REJECT (REJ) or DISCONNECT (DSC)
;
NE$RES ='B' 1. ; Resource allocation failure (REJ)
NE$NOD ='B' 2. ; Destination node name does not map to
a node address (rej)
NE$NSR ='B' 3. ; Remote node shutting down (REJ)
NE$UOB ='B' 4. ; Destination process does not exist (REJ)
NE$FMT ='B' 5. ; Invalid format for object
specification (REJ)
NE$MLB ='B' 6. ; Mailbox full for queuing message to
object
; or too many connects to object (REJ)
NE$ABM ='B' 8. ; Link aborted by management (DSC)
NE$NNF ='B' 10. ; Node name format error (REJ)
NE$NSL ='B' 11. ; Local node shutting down (REJ)
NE$ACC ='B' 34. ; Access not permitted - unacceptable
; RQSTRID / PASSWORD ETC.(REJ)
NE$ABO ='B' 38. ; No response from object (REJ/DSC)
NE$COM ='B' 39. ; Unable to communicate with node (REJ/DSC)
;
; Symbols defined for PHASE II compatibility
;
; Note that codes which are not equated to the above PHASE III
; list are not returned by NSP to the user. These codes
; are defined solely to eliminate undefined symbols when
; PHASE II programs are linked.
;
NE$SSR ='B' 0 ; No error or single message reply
NE$NSD ='B' NE$NSR ; Node shutting down
NE$GEN ='B' 7. ; Unspecified error condition
NE$TPA ='B' NE$ABM ; Third party aborted logical link
NE$IFC ='B' 24. ; Invalid flow control value
NE$TCN ='B' 32. ; Too many connects to node
NE$TCO ='B' NE$MLB ; Too many connects to destination process
NE$ILS ='B' 35. ; Logical link services mismatch
NE$ACT ='B' NE$ACC ; Invalid account information - not
authorized or broke
NE$SSS ='B' 37. ; Segment size too small
NE$FCF ='B' 40. ; Flow control failure
NE$IMG ='B' NE$ACC ; Image data field too long
Johnny
On 2023-07-07 23:06, Paul Koning wrote:
More:
The session control spec makes a distinction between connect error codes
and reason codes as they appear in the protocol. For example, codes 20,
11, and 39 are error codes but not protocol codes. The reason is that
10 and 11 are internal errors -- if you get this then nothing was sent
on the wire -- and 39 is the outcome of something entirely different in
the protocol -- either a routing layer error return, or a message being
returned to sender as unreachable.
The description of 41 looks wrong; 41 as a protocol code means "no link
terminate" which is what NSP sends in response to an NSP message that
refers to a logical link address (connection identifier) that isn't
currently active. That has nothing to do with the destination process;
it normally occurs if the destination node has restarted, or if there
was a network outage long enough for the destination to delete the
connection but the source did not do likewise.
Code 42 is internal to the NSP protocol; you would never see that code
come back to an application as a status value. It's merely the encoding
of the message that acks a disconnect initiate; think of it as an ACK
that's encoded a bit strangely.
paul
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On Jul 7, 2023, at 4:39 PM, Thomas DeBellis
<tommytimesharing(a)gmail.com <mailto:tommytimesharing@gmail.com>> wrote:
Where are all of these spelled out? I had looked in the Phase IVNSP
functional specification (NSP401.TXT) for them, but only a few seem to
be there.
The background is that I have further enhanced Kermit-20 to use direct
monitor connections when doing remote terminals and also to print the
text of a disconnect. I duly copied over the list inMONSYM, Etc.,
Etc., Etc. Earlier this week, I put some more contingency code into
FAL to handle server crashes. Basically, the controller would sit in
a loop forever restarting crashed server (DAP) forks. Now it waits a
while and stops completely after a certain number of restarts.
While I was at it, I checked its list and found that it was missing
text for disconnect codes 10, 11, 21, 22 and 23. Well, I put it in
but got to wondering what others there might be. Right now Tops-20
Kermit and DAP know about the following:
*Code*
*Reason Text*
0
Reject or disconnect by object
1
Resource allocation failure
2
Destination node does not exist
3
Remote node shutting down
4
Destination process does not exist
5
Invalid process name field
6
Object is busy
7
Unspecified error
8
Third party abort)
9
User abort (asynchronous disconnect)
/10/
/Invalid node name/
/11/
/Local node shut down/
/21/
/Connect Initiate with illegal destination address/
/22/
/Connect confirm with illegal destination address/
/23/
/Connect initiate or confirm with zero source address/
24
Flow control violation
32
Too many connections to node
33
Too many connections to destination process
34
Access not permitted
35
Logical link services mismatch
36
Invalid account
37
Segment size too small
38
No response from destination process
39
No path to destination node
40
Link aborted due to data loss
41
Destination process does not exist
42
Confirmation of Disconnect Initiate
43
Image data field too long
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