Vince.Fuller@C.CS.CMU.EDU.UUCP (03/21/87)
Has anyone managed to decode the protocol used to talk to these things to the point of being able to write a program to query them? We are using them to tie together the various segments of our departmental network and would like to be able to query them to help locate errant hosts. We have the RBMS software for VMS but really need to develop some application code of our own. Unfortunately, the (DEC Proprietary) documentation we have is worse than useless, since our observations of the LANbridge control packets look almost nothing like what the documentation claims. The documentation claims that the "Bridge Management Protocol" is built on top of the Maintenance Operations Protocol (MOP), but no where in the DEC/DNA MOP documentation can I find an obvious place where this might be wedged in (and observations of the control packets again bear show little resemblance to any MOP packets). Has anyone else been down this path or can suggest documentation I might reference? We'd like to find out what all of these funny packet values actually mean, rather than just brute-force using the binary values in our monitoring programs. Thanks in advance, Vince Fuller, CMU-CSD -------