18 Nov 16 11:38, you wrote to me:

 MK> Here is something I'd appreciate your input on;

 MK> ---------- pkt type data vector generator starts

[trim]

 MK> ---------- pkt type data vector generator ends

 MK> Note that all the echo calls are one line or at least were when they left
 MK> here.  Also I used your Origin line address with the domain addition as
the
 MK> destAddr.  Also, also added ansi colours (red) the the type echo's (see
 MK> 'echo -e' calls).  All output is pure ascii

from what i can see, it looks good... how do you convert it to binary? i want
to look at it with a couple of packet inspection tools...

 MK> and the only thing I can see that could possibly benefit from utf-8
 MK> encoding would be the domain names but then due to the byte
 MK> limitations that would be even more crippling than it already is.

yeah, there is that... one has to remember, too, that these are FTN domains...
FTN domains are of similar nature to NETBIOS and NOVELL domains... they are not
internet domains... they can only be up do eight characters long and are
restricted to printable ASCII characters...

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Always Mount a Scratch Monkey
Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it
wrong...
... Back off man, We're scientists!!!
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