Econet in all its guises • Re: Econet Level 4

I noticed that RISC OS 5 does a machine type peek on the server when you login. I am not sure yet if that is just to quickly time out the login if there isn't a server at the address given or if its going to use the result to affect the protocol its going to expect. Machine type peek is not yet working in my RO/ARG's Pico stack. When it is, with a new ABC lib, L4 hopefully will run on a pi.

I think all clients do that - from 8 bit machines upwards. If you do "*I AM ..." on a BBC B with NFS 3.x it will do that too. I think it's just to make sure the server is there quickly, rather than producing a 'No Reply' error from the subsequent login operation if there isn't actually a server there at all.

Level 4 servers will send a machinepeek to the client at login too. From the reply, the behaviour (notably as to the number of available user handles it will support for the client) is altered. (v2.20 of PiFS, currently in development, also now does this.)

Unfortunately I can't tunnel out yet, I have not had any luck getting my ken low rev 1 board to work on linux, I need to have a close look at that soon.

Happy to help (assuming it's on a Pi running linux rather than anything else!) - send me a PM and I'll do what I can.

Best

Chris.

Statistics: Posted by cr12925 — Sat Jul 27, 2024 7:06 am

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