mark@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Anderson) (03/11/91)
I hope that these are appropriate groups and apologize in advance if I have missed a FAQ somewhere with this one in it. I need everything I can find on the DEC LAT protocol. DECNET stuff would also be nice, but not as important. I realize that it is a licensed product of Digital Equipment Company, but was hoping to find some sort of primer for the protocol available without having to license the right to use from DEC. The reason I need this is that am trying to write a program to measure among other things the load on an ethernet caused by terminal servers, and the data flow rate that is sent. For this I would like to be able to examine ethernet packets and measure the character rate (data flow) for several different protocols. Telnet and rlogin are easy to find information on, but we also are running DEC LAT servers on our network. I would like to be able to look at ( and partially decode ) these packets as well, so I can get a measurement of the comparative throughput (per login) that we are actually getting. I know that this is a tricky thing to do, and I'm probably doing to much work for too little use, but it's worth a shot. Any pointers, references or anything would be welcome. Thank you. Mark A. Anderson mark@jarthur.claremont.edu Computer Science Department uunet!jarthur!mark Harvey Mudd College Claremont, CA 91711