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From: jeff@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Stearns)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.os.vms
Subject: Talking to (not *through*) a LANBridge?
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Date: 10 May 88 00:38:45 GMT
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Keywords: DECnet LANBridge socket unix maintenance network

I have an Ethernet comprising several segments, all joined by DEC LANBridges.

I now need to communicate with the LANBridges to check some error statistics
that they gather.

I know that DEC offers some "Remote Bridge Management" software which would
do this, but that's a VMS-only product.  For various reasons, I must speak
to them from UNIX.

I'm leafing through a pile of DECnet manuals and I can see that there's enough
information here to let me write a UNIX program which would simulate DECnet
sufficiently to collect the few statistics that I need.

But I'd rather not start from scratch.  I'd like to get in touch with anybody
who can offer anything to help.  I'd especially appreciate a library of
functions which implement basic DECnet protocols in a UNIX process.

	Thanks!
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