[Info-vax] Reject Cause=Invalid Message Format, Erroneous Transport PDU='386200BD00000005'H

[Supratim Sanyal]

> Any regular operations causing log entries is bad. But it's not your NCP 
> commands that are causing it. You seem to also be trying to read some 
> file from each node. And that is what you are getting denied on. Atleast 
> on my machines.
> 
> 	Johnny

Johnny,

INFO.TXT! It looks like there was once a goal of having everything on HECnet publish a FAL-accessible INFO.TXT, not sure why it fizzed out, was a great concept. Anyway this is getting too HECnet specific, I have mailed the mailing list if it is more appropriate to take this offline.

Thanks.



In article <o1frng$24p$2 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, bqt at softjar.se says...
> 
> On 2016-11-28 00:18, Supratim Sanyal wrote:
> > Hi Johnny,
> >
> >> Could you please redesign that thing. I'm getting lots of logs about
> > you
> >> trying to access machines I control, on which you do not have access.
> >
> > Sorry, did not mean to flood logs. I am done, and will only run this
> > once a week. There must a better design than brute-force like the
> > following that I am doing now, will keep looking. Let me know if once-a-
> > week flood is not acceptable either. Thanks.
> 
> Any regular operations causing log entries is bad. But it's not your NCP 
> commands that are causing it. You seem to also be trying to read some 
> file from each node. And that is what you are getting denied on. Atleast 
> on my machines.
> 
> 	Johnny
> 
> >
> > $ DECNET_PHASE=0
> > $! TRY PHASE IV NCP
> > $ NCP TELL 'DECNETADDR' SHOW NODE 'DECNETADDR' STATUS
> > $ NCPSTAT=$STATUS
> > $ IF NCPSTAT .EQ. %X10000001
> > $ THEN
> > $    DECNET_PHASE=4
> > $ ELSE
> > $!   TRY PHASE V OSI NCL
> > $    NCL SHOW NODE 'DECNETADDR'
> > $    NCPSTAT=$STATUS
> > $    IF NCPSTAT .EQ. %X10000001
> > $    THEN
> > $        DECNET_PHASE=5
> > $    ENDIF
> > $ ENDIF
> >
> > In article <o1ev0a$dd7$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, bqt at softjar.se says...
> >>
> >> On 2016-11-27 14:51, Supratim Sanyal wrote:
> >>>> You can not use NCP to get similar 'bogus' Phase IV information from
> >>>> another Phase V node.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks, that is indeed the case. I can run NCP commands from RSX-11M-PLUS (NSP version = 4.0.0, Routing version = 2.0.0, Type = Endnode IV) to both VAXen (running DECnet Plus/OSI) but cannot get NCP to work between the two VAXen.
> >>
> >> To be correct:
> >> There is a subset of NCP available on Phase V nodes, which can be used
> >> to talk, in some limited form to Phase IV nodes.
> >> If you want to talk between Phase V nodes, you need to use whatever