multinet(8) [debian man page]

MULTINET(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       MULTINET(8)

NAME

       multinet - Connect to a Multinet* DECnet over IP server

SYNOPSIS

       multinet [options] <local-decnet-addr> <remote-host>

DESCRIPTION

       This  utility  creates a tapX device and copies all the DECnet packets from that over IP to a remote Multinet* server. It provides a way to
       connect a Linux box to a remote VMS machine over an IP-only network. Using Linux routing it should be possible to connect  DECnet  networks
       over the internet using this technique.
       local-decnet-addr DECnet node address of the tapX interface. This need not be the same as the address used on other interfaces but it might
       be less confusing if it is.
       remote-host IP address or host name of the remote Multinet server. If you send a HUP signal to the process it will lookup this name  again,
       so you don't need to restart the server if the remote node changes its IP address.

       *Multinet is a product, and probably a trademark, of Process Software.
	      http://www.process.com and is available free for hobbyist use.
	      The protocol used here was reverse engineered by Mark Berryman and Christine Caulfield.

OPTIONS

       -v     Be verbose and dump packet contents to stderr

       -1     Advertise as a level 1 router

       -2     Advertise as a level 2 router (default)

       -D     Make  the tapX device into the default DECnet device. This will force all traffic to non-local nodes down the Multinet link.  IMPOR-
	      TANT: Due to a kernel bug you should not use this option unless you are using a Linux kernel version 2.6.17 or later.

       -p priority
	      Router priority. Default is 64

       -P port
	      Port to talk to Multinet on (default is 700). Ony change this if you know the Multinet server is listening on a different port

       -m MTU Maximum size of packets. (default 576)

       -t secs
	      Timeout for IP connections. If no traffic is seen on the IP connection after this time then the daemon will attempt to restart it.

       -H hello timer
	      How often HELLO messages are sent (default 60) in seconds.

EXAMPLES

	 multinet -1 -D 3.2 zarqon.tykepenguin.com

SEE ALSO

       dnroute(8), ip(8)

DECnet utilities						   March 30 2006						       MULTINET(8)

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DNPING(1)						      General Commands Manual							 DNPING(1)

NAME

       dnping - Loopbacks diagnostic packets through a remote node

SYNOPSIS

       dnping nodename [user pass] count
       or
       dnping nodename [options] nodename
       Options:
       [qsv] [-c number] [-i interval] [-p password] [-s size] [-u username] [-w timeout]

DESCRIPTION

       This  utility  sends  to  remote  DECnet  node  nodename the number of packets specified by count to test the link between the two systems.
       Optionally a username and password may be specified for the connection as well as several other options. NOTE that if  you  dnping  another
       Linux box it must have dnetd running.
       NOTE also that dnping is not really like an IP "ping" in that it needs a registered object at the other end to connect to. So, just because
       you cannot ping a machine does not, necessarily, mean that machine is not available, just that the MIRROR object is not available. There is
       not (to my knowledge) a low-level equivalent in DECnet of the ICMP ping message.

OPTIONS

       -c number
	      Number of packets to send (default 10)

       -d     Debug mode (default off)

       -i interval
	      interval between packets in microseconds (default 0)

       -p password
	      Access control password. If this is "-" then you will be prompted.

       -q     Quiet mode (default off)

       -s size
	      size of frame to send in bytes (40 data + 68 hdr)

       -t     timestamps mode (default off)

       -u username
	      access control username

       -w timeout
	      Specifies  a  timeout  (in seconds). If not response is received after this time then dnping will abort. The default is to wait for-
	      ever.

       -v     verbose mode (default off)

EXAMPLES

       Pings 10 packets through remote node "mv3100"

	   # dnping mv3100 10
       Make it look a bit like IP ping:

	   # dnping  -vti 1000000 marsha

SEE ALSO

       dntype(1), dndir(1), dndel(1), dntask(1), sethost(1), dnetd(8)

DECnet utilities						  January 25 2000							 DNPING(1)

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