[Info-vax] reboot due to network failure

[Michael Moroney]

helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) writes:

>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 thought you mentioned earlier that the "middle" SCSSYSTEMID survived.
1074 is the lowest.  If you swap bytes, 1074 is also the lowest, all
three values have the same low byte (04 hex) after the swap, but differ in
the high byte.

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

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