[Info-vax] reboot due to network failure

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <jcvqo2$a38$1 at usenet01.boi.hp.com>, Keith Parris
<keithparris_deletethis at yahoo.com> writes: 

> The code which compares SCSSYSTEMID values uses the 6-byte (48-bit) 
> DECnet Phase IV-style MAC address format of the SCS System ID, with the 
> two low-order bytes being the SCS System ID value, but with the two 
> bytes swapped because the Ethernet standard was apparently developed on 
> Big-endian hardware, and then the comparison is a character-string 
> comparison in Little-endian order, low-order byte first. So while 
> deterministic, the decision isn't easy to predict.

OK.

1074 survived.  The others were 1134 and 1094.  Make sense?

(I see now that two of them are "wrong"; all should have 2 as the second 
digit.)