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From: brian@praxis.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,praxis.general
Subject: Obtaining Ethernet address of DEQNA device from VMS process
Message-ID: <1111@newton.praxis.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 28-Aug-87 09:35:17 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 28 09:35:17 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 1-Sep-87 05:44:34 EDT
Reply-To: brian@praxis.co.uk (Brian Holmes)
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Help ! I am trying to get the Ethernet address of a DEQNA device from a 
process - so far with out much success. 

I've tried assigning a channel to the device (XQA1) so that I can obtain the 
Ethernet address via a sense mode QIO request, but the device is already 
allocated to a process - SHOW DEVICE/FULL XQA1 indicates that the owning 
process is NETACP. Is there anyway of getting around this problem, bearing
in mind that the process in question is not privileged.

I can obtain the address from the keyboard by running NCP and giving a 
SHOW EXECUTOR STATUS command. Can I get at the routine that NCP uses to
access the controller ?

Any suggestions will be gratefully received.

Brian Holmes                                 Tel:   +44 225 444700
Praxis Systems plc                           Telex: 445848 PRAXIS G
20 Manvers Street, Bath, BA1 1PX, U.K.       Fax:   +44 225 65205
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