Re: [Linux-decnet-user] Specs for MOPD

[Paul K. <pk...@eq...>]

Excerpt of message (sent 11 May 2002) by Gregg C Levine:
> Hello from Gregg C Levine
> Darndest thing. It turns out that Red Hat has a workable MOPD daemon.
> Anyway, I have it installed on a 6.2 system running the 2.2.14 kernel. I
> know its an older kernel, but that is what it came with, for
> installation purposes. Are any of you aware of the availability of these
> documents? "DECnet Digital Network Architecture Phase IV, Maintenance
> Operations Functional Specification V3.0.0, AA-X436A-TK", and "DECnet
> Digital Network Architecture Phase IV, Maintenance Operations Functional
> Specification V4.0.0, EK-DNA11-FS-001". 

Same place as the other Phase IV specs,
http://gatekeeper.research.compaq.com/pub/DEC/DECnet/PhaseIV/.  At
least the V3.0.0 edition is there.  I think V4.0.0 was actually the
one that came as part of Phase V (not IV as in the title you quoted).
Even though it was planned to have the Phase V specs released, it
appears not to have happened and it's not clear whether copies of
those specs still exist.  For that matter, it's not clear if copies of
DECwrite, the tool used to create them, still exist.

In any case, there wasn't any significant protocol change in MOP
between the two specs.  The biggest delta I can think of is cleanup
around the retry algorithms for clients retrying the "load me"
message.

	paul
	(former editor of the MOP spec)