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From: AWalker@RED.RUTGERS.EDU (*Hobbit*)
Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax
Subject: Another interesting one
Message-ID: <12178807774.2.AWALKER@RED.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Tue, 28-Jan-86 06:09:11 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 28 06:09:11 1986
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I have a vax on an ethernet cable with a few other DECNET vaxen on it
also.  In particular, I'm host 13, the others are 2 [NB] and 10 [CHEMA].
NB routes to a bunch of other hosts via a DMC or something.  In farting
around with tasks and things, I've run across entries in netserver.log
of the type '' connect request received from 1026::"0=USER" which turns
out to be host 2.  I.e. if I do SET HOST 1026 from my host, I get to host 2.
My host is nonrouting, has no knowledge of host 2, 1026, or anything like
that in its own tables, so it doesn't know what to call the incoming host.
Do host numbers wrap around at 1024, is 2 translating to 1026, and why
would my host be adding extra bits to the incoming host number?  In other
words, what's going on?

_H*
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