Re: DECnet phase IV node drops itself. Why? How?

From: AEF (spamsink2001_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/29/05 

Date: 29 Sep 2005 13:01:40 -0700

AEF wrote:
> Hoff Hoffman wrote:
> > In article <1128004369.768012.272660@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, "AEF" <spamsink2001@yahoo.com> writes:
> > :Hoff Hoffman wrote:
> > :> In article <1127938795.354636.197410@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, "AEF" <spamsink2001@yahoo.com> writes:
[...]
> > :> What versions of DECnet and OpenVMS (and ECOs) are involved here?
> > :
> > :NODE_F: VMS 6.1
> > :NODE_X: VMS 6.2
> > :NODE_Y: VMS 6.1
> >
> > Old, obviously. No hope of upgrades or ECOs, I assume.
>
> Well, yes and no. I am planning to upgrade the 6.1 systems to 6.2, but
> I want to assemble a fully patched system disk and test our app on it.
> The existing 6.2 systems are running with zero or very few patches.
> When they were set up I was told to not put patches on them. The
> problem with upgrades is that I have 34 systems on line. That's a lot
> of work! And most of them are overseas.

Sorry to reply to myself, but I must clear this up:

The current VMS 6.2 nodes (no or few ECO's!) are all running the
applications "update node" software, which is very small compared to
the "market node" software. (These update nodes are "satellite nodes"
as far as the app is concerned. The front end software connects to
these update nodes.) We tested it and it works fine. But to upgrade the
market nodes (all of which are currently running VMS 6.1) I want to
create a fully-patched system disk. I have not yet finished this task.
Once I finish it, I will try to run the app on it and see if anything
breaks. I think it will be fine, actually, but I know the app doesn't
run on VMS 5.5-2, for example. So there could be some
yet-to-be-discovered dependencies, but I think the app uses something
that VMS 5.5-2 doesn't have. Anyway, I want to test it first.

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