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Hello again, folks. More stuff about my VMS-based Ethernet monitoring tool.

Seems a lot of you have found a "feature" in ETHERMON V2.4 that my old
version FORTRAN compiler was hiding from me. Well, thanks to a gentleman
out on the Net with a newer compiler version and enough nerve to trust
me on his system with privileges, ETHERMON has been fixed. (Thanks, Harry!)

ETHERMON V2.4-1 is now available via anonymous FTP from gw.syr.ge.com.
It fixes that <censored> control-C bug, fixes the problem with the
SET MESSAGES [msgtyp] ON command, and adds an initialization file capability.
It is in the usual format (4096 byte block BACKUP saveset, with accompanying
.FDL file; make sure to transfer the saveset in BINARY mode). Unfortunately, 
I do not know how to tell the folks with Unix or Ultrix gateways or DEC UCX 
software on their VMS gateways how to get the record structure restored after 
FTP-ing the saveset. Any UCX gurus out there who can answer this question? 
(I can't; my site uses TGV MultiNet).

Oh, yeah, there is another "feature" in the VMS V5.4-3 and up Ethernet device
drivers: if you have DECnet service enabled on a port, and then invoke ANY
promiscuous mode application on that port (ETHERMON or somebody else's
utility), you start getting every-10-seconds complaints about "bad MOP function
code" via OPCOM from the DECnet MOM process. I'm still working on a work-around;
anyone with DECnet internals knowledge who could identify the cause of this?

Thanks again for the support, everybody. I'm still accepting suggestions for
improvements; the tag list idea that someone sent in was interesting, and
I'm definitely going to have to take a look at that one.

Keep on hacking (white hat, of course).

Andrew Pavlin, TCP/IP network administrator and "white hat" hacker
General Electric Co., Aerospace Information Technology
Syracuse, NY 13221 U.S.A.
phone: 1-315-456-6212
email: pavlin@syr.ge.com
fax:   1-315-456-0956