This appendix describes the format of a listen address when the protocol between two machines is DECnet. It also gives you the protocol- and platform-specific information to set up connection data entries.
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A listen address is a unique identifier used for interprocess communications. A Communications Server has two kinds of listen addresses. It uses one to receive messages from local processes and the other to receive messages from remote Communications Servers.
This section describes the format of the listen address used to receive messages from remote processes when the network protocol is DECnet.
Note: To view or change your instance's listen addresses, use the Configuration-By-Forms (cbf) utility or Configuration Manager (vcbf).
A DECnet listen address is a DECnet object and has the format:
II_GCC[xx]_nnnnn
where :
The installation ID, found in II_INSTALLATION.
The installation ID is only present for group level installations.
A five-digit number that you specify when you install Net. The default for this number is 0.
The default listen address is II_GCC[xx]_0.
In netutil, the network address prompt is in DECnet node name in character form. You can specify the node address and name in the format
area-number.node_number (for example: 1.234) instead of the DECnet node name. If you are running DECnet-Plus, you can specify the format namespace:.directory_path.node_object (for example, local:.mynode). DECnet-Plus users can specify node names larger than six characters.
Connection Data Entry Information:
Protocol: decnet
Network address: node_name
The node_name is the DECnet node name in character form.
Listen address: II_GCC[xx]_nnnnn