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From: howard@COS.COM (Howard C. Berkowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: TCP/IP and DECnet
Message-ID: <453@cos.COM>
Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 10:05:22 EDT
Article-I.D.: cos.453
Posted: Thu Oct  1 10:05:22 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 5-Oct-87 02:24:08 EDT
References: <8709290741.AA02129@sluggo.sun.com>
Organization: Corporation for Open Systems, McLean, VA
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Summary: MOP documented with DDCMP

In article <8709290741.AA02129@sluggo.sun.com>, melohn@SUN.COM (Bill Melohn) writes:
> Not true. Downline loading, upline dumping, and the remote console
> utility are handled by MOP, the Maintenance Operations Protocol, yet
> another Digital propriatary protocol that is NOT included under the
> publically available DECnet suite.


MOP is fairly thoroughly documented in the DDCMP specification
manual, part of publicly available Digital Network Architecture
documentation.

Use of MOP by DECnet software, however, deals more with VMS
design than the protocols.  Using the DDCMP manual, however,
I was, in a previous job, able to design a dump/reload handler
using MOP (which, for other reasons, we did not use).


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