On 10 Mar 1999, Jonathan NAYLOR wrote:
> But, the protocol for DXCluster was included in the manual that came with the
> software allowing clones to be written, and anyway its an easy protocol to
> reverse engineer. A few hours watching a DXCluster backbone link will
> provide enough protocol to write a basic cluster yourself. That is why
> I included
> DXCluster in my list of public protocols.
Implementing it was a HUGE pain anyway since the original
implementation itself (and many cloned implementations) are broken in many
ways (routing issues mainly). It takes a couple years of reverse
engineering and debugging to get it about right and it still does not
work too well. The original message format documentation was outdated to
begin with... but now that you have a couple of reference implementations
and better documentation coming with them, it should be easier. (not that
i would see any sense in writing new implementations of that crap. free
the old ones and make them better)
- Hessu
