Bilbo is the teststand computer. There is another one as well, but bilbo is the main one that we use.
If it can be pinged, then you should be able to use the vme program (I don’t know who wrote it) to communicate between boards on the crate.
Here is an example. A TDC board is in slot 16. Issue the following command to read from memory:
vme bilbo read 16 0
The output of this command should be deadbe00.
You can also write (and turn on a light on the front panel) with:
vme bilbo write 3c 1