[Info-vax] Cutting down on routing nodes

[David J Dachtera]

CY wrote:
> 
> Wondering if going 0 on routing nodes will impact a flat/nonrouted
> decnet in any other way than that I cant see nonlinked nonrouting IV
> decnodes status?
> 
> And is there any way (program) to display that status anyway, just
> sniffing for AA-00-04-00-xx-yy might be enough and there is an address
> (forgot it just now) to watch for every 3 sec to see heartbeats but...
> 
> If I loose all routing IV nodes, can I still get this info (without a
> sniffer)?
> Any other thing to keep in mind?
> 
> Hope I made the Q clear.

Well, not quite sure what you're trying to do, though I doubt you really
want to turn your routing nodes loose (;-))... ("lose" and "loose" are
often confused.)

Seriously, unless you have multiple areas or multiple LAN segments, you
really should not need any DECnet routing nodes.

If, for some reason, you're not seeing adjacency between DECnet nodes on
the same LAN segment or VLAN, you can always use a sort of DECnet "ping"
to see if (at the very least) you have DECnet connectivity to the other
node. 

With an appropriate proxy set up on both ends, simply 

$ TYPE node::NLA0: 

If the $STATUS is good, the partner node may be alive and well; if not,
you've got some exploring to do.

Dunno if this helps.

D.J.D.