Is local_ip documented somewhere? (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Wed, 13 Nov 1996 21:44:00 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time Carl Oppedahl shaped the electrons to say...
>The answer (thank you to Livingston tech support!) was to use "set location
>foo local_ip x.y.z.a". The only thing about this is that "local_ip" appears
>nowhere in the documentation for the OR, nowhere on the CD-ROM that came
>with the OR, does not appear in the online help that one receives when
>connected to the OR, and nowhere (so far as I can see) on the Livingston web
>site or in the email discussion group archive.

That was an oversight. It was added at the same time local_ip was added
to the user table. Somewhere between engineering and docs it was dropped.
Gryphon, who I believe is the one who handled this, wrote an appnote on it.
It'll make its way to the web I'm sure.

I've known about that command for many months now, but when you're reviewing
documentation it is easy to miss mistakes of omission. Out of sight, out of
mind. And you're the first user I've actually seen need to use it.

>So my question is, can someone direct me to a resource, authorized or
>unauthorized, that tells me all of the undocumented commands of the router
>software? I have to assume that at some future time, at 2AM when no one is

Nothing from Livingston, if it is meant to be used by the public it will
be documented. Sometimes rarely used commands or new additions get missed.
This is the only instance of that I've seen so far though. Usually the docs
and appnotes together cover it.

-MZ

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