[Info-vax] DECserver/LAT across DECnet areas?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-07-23 01:53, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
> On 7/22/2023 7:07 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> Andy Green  <agreen0868 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Is there a way to get the DECserver 200 to recognize the VAX on 2.2 
>>> so I can log into it using the DECserver?  Is that supposed to happen 
>>> automagically since the routers are there, or do I have to do 
>>> something special?  Or is it not possible?
>>
>> LAT is not decnet.  Vaxcluster isn't decnet either.  LAT is its own 
>> protocol,
>> and it's one that doesn't route.  You might be able to write some sort of
>> LAT bridge but I have never seen one in place before because really the L
>> in LAT is for Local.
> 
> In the olden days, a terminal server needed a DECnet address in order to 
> be MOP downline-loaded.

Umm. In VMS maybe. Not in RSX.

You can boot anything unknown via MOP from RSX, as long as you have the 
required image on the system in the right directory.

   Johnny