Mechanics/Network/Computer Nerds

[Stryxic]

For the good of the order, it might be worth having a consolidated list of all of the different devices that have sniff-able packets (PDAs, airlocks, etc) as well as what frequencies they're on. Having to try and determine what sends packets by trying every single object with every single frequency just seems like an exercise in frustration.

Yes. A thousand times yes!

I wonder if it might be possible to hook something up with a DWAINE terminal, and write a script which automatically pings all frequencies by incrementing it by 2 each time, and appends the result of the ping to a record, but I'm not sure if that kind of things is possible on DWAINE, as I've not actually tried it. I'm not even sure if it were possible on DWAINE - I think the best shot would be a ThinkDOS computer in net_free mode, and a script which changes the frequency that way, but I've never read anything that suggests you can script on ThinkDOS.