[tech] on freshmeat today ....

[Mark Tearle]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Simon Fryer wrote:

> > First step, however, is to get a MOPd running somewhere. I'd expect
> > there to be one available on morwong, but I can't find any reference
> > to it. Dunc - could you perhaps ask Toivo? or are there copies of the
> > "Network Administration" and "System Administration" manuals for DU at
> > UCS, as referenced by "man lat_intro" ?
> 
> I have not managed to find anything useful about mop on my DU box. But it
> runs lat perfectly. 
> 
> I think that moray was running a mopd at one stage. I have no idea if it
> was transfered to mooneye. Another side effect of the linux/BSD/IP 
> world is that the router may not route the decnet protocols happily. This 
> is going to be a complete bugger for mop booting decservers on different 
> segments. 
> 
Yeah, we need a real router, UCS throwing out any of AGS+ yet?

We could run it on the router, I'm going to have a quick poke at it
when I get to UCC this afternoon, hopefully, I'll have some luck.
But I agree we need to sort out things somewhat.

> Additionally, the mopd is pretty trivial to compile. Even I can do it. 
> 
> See Ya
> Simon

Yours
Mark
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