Monthly Archives: July 2012

Did the work tonight to make the router become the Designated Router and send the Ethernet Router Hello message to the All End Nodes address when it is the designated router, and to stop doing so if it stops being the … Continue reading →

I have been away a bit and not had my development environment available to carry on, so I decided to do some refactoring and attempt some other small but important changes while I was away. The changes were to add … Continue reading →

I have been cleaning up the code and checking the specification for the Ethernet Router Hello message to make sure I have implemented it fully. In doing so I realised that I was not setting the router information in the … Continue reading →

I have been working on the Ethernet Router Hello message. After fixing some problems with the lengths I was putting in the message I finally worked out why my simulated VAX780 was not “seeing” my router node. It was because … Continue reading →

After thinking about it many times, I thought this time around I would enter RetroChallenge. My project is probably going to be a bit longer than the month allowed and I am not sure how much time I am going … Continue reading →