On Dec 20, 2012, at 11:43 AM, Brian Hechinger wrote: Making some really good progress here. Have a couple questions though about all this. I'm doing 'NCP TELL foo SHOW KNOWN CIRC' and so my question about that is will all adjacent routers show up on that list? Also, the output of 'NCP SHOW EXEC CHAR' what are all the possible values for Type? CHIMPY shows up as 'nonrouting IV' and GORVAX shows up as 'area'. What other possible options are there? -brian The Network Management architecture spec answers these questions. Quoting from that document (AA-X437A-TK): "show known circ" will give you all adjacent routers; "show known circ status" will give you all adjacent nodes of any type. Type can be: routing iii, nonrouting iii, area, routing iv, nonrouting iv. I guess some implementations of NCP use non-standard strings (like "endnode iv"), but the 5 values I listed are the standard strings corresponding to the 5 defined codes in the NICE protocol. A phase V node would presumably show up as if it were IV, because that's how it presents itself to the Phase IV nodes. You would see what it really is if you ask it directly (but that's a different protocol and a different command syntax entirely). paul