HECnet December 2021

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Connecting an HP Itanium BL860c to HECNET... without ethernet

by cyb2600＠gmail.com

Hello, A little while ago I purchased an HP BL860c server blade. It has an Itanium 2 CPU and I was able to install OpenVMS 8.4 on it. However I do NOT have a HP Bladesystem chassis to put the blade in, meaning I can only connect to it via the SUV console cable which provides usb, serial, and VGA. There's no way to get ethernet out of the thing without plugging it into a rather gigantic Bladesystem chassis that I don't have. If it was an x64 based blade running windows I could just use a USB->Ethernet adapter but of course those things don't have OpenVMS drivers. Given ethernet's not an option, would there be any way to tunnel DECNET over the serial port? It seems like that was possible on VAXen and maybe even Alphas but I've no mention of doing it on an Itanium. Or if anybody else has any ideas of how I could network this thing I would appreciate it. Chris

3 years, 12 months

Connecting an HP Itanium BL860c to HECNET... without ethernet

by Mark＠infocomm.com

On Friday, December 10, 2021 at 12:19 PM, Paul Koning wrote: > > On Dec 10, 2021, at 2:32 PM, cyb 2600 <cyb2600 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > A little while ago I purchased an HP BL860c server blade. It has an Itanium 2 > CPU and I was able to install OpenVMS 8.4 on it. However I do NOT have a HP > Bladesystem chassis to put the blade in, meaning I can only connect to it via > the SUV console cable which provides usb, serial, and VGA. There's no way to > get ethernet out of the thing without plugging it into a rather gigantic > Bladesystem chassis that I don't have. If it was an x64 based blade running > windows I could just use a USB->Ethernet adapter but of course those things > don't have OpenVMS drivers. > > > > Given ethernet's not an option, would there be any way to tunnel DECNET > over the serial port? It seems like that was possible on VAXen and maybe > even Alphas but I've no mention of doing it on an Itanium. Or if anybody else > has any ideas of how I could network this thing I would appreciate it. > > I don't know that VMS ever did it, but a number of DECnet systems support > DDCMP over async lines (terminal serial ports). That's part of the standard. VAX/VMS certainly did async DDCMP. I've no idea if that functionality got migrated to Alpha and Itanium. I'd suggest you try following the VMS example. If you can get the configuration steps to work (suggesting Itanium support) then this should work with a serial line going into a simh VAX. Good Luck, - Mark

3 years, 12 months

Oldest VAX/VMS for VAX-11/730 on HECNET

by Mark＠infocomm.com

On Dec 9, 2021 1:02 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote: On 2021-12-09 23:52, Mark J. Blair wrote: > So, basically like bang paths in uucp? Maybe I will play with that sometime! Yes. But depending on application, it might be that all machines have to be up and running at the moment you're trying to use it, as opposed to UUCP which was store and forward. Where EVERY step of the uucp activity was store and forward, including the local (starting system). The uucp command just queued the file for local background/later copy to the next hop. - Mark

4 years

Updating Map Locations

by nf6x＠nf6x.net

A little while ago, I got a second hecnet link to let me get on hecnet from my office at my day job. I've moved some of my node names from my home in Riverside, CA to my office in Norco, CA. If I wanted to get a new pin at http://akdesign.dyndns.org:8080/map for my relocated nodes, do I need to pester somebody to manually update locations in a database? Or does the mapping crawler look for something on the nodes which might feed updated location information to it? I've begun putting .BEGIN-HECNET-INFO blocks in my INFO.TXT files, plagiarizing what I saw on Robert's nodes. But I get the impression that nothing automatically parses those at this time? It's kind of silly that my Riverside and Norco nodes are quite close to each other in southern California, but have two separate links up to the bay area. I can't accept incoming connections either at home or at work, so I have two separate links to Robert instead of just linking directly between my two sites. Sigh. I'm still happy that I can get on hecnet both from home and work, and my two sites can talk to each other. Interactive sessions are naturally sluggish when I do something like editing a file, but it seems to work quite well otherwise. -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net> https://www.nf6x.net/

4 years

machines up today

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

Hi folks, just FYI, some of you may notice LSSM machines (most of the machines in area 61) will be up and visible on HECnet through parts of today. Today is a volunteer work day at the museum, and a local company (Iron Mountain) is sending a group of volunteers to come and spend the day with us and help with various things. They'll be doing everything from cleaning to installing new surveillance cameras. We've been preparing for this for the past couple of weeks. Due to our perpetual short-handedness this is a really big deal for us. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

4 years

Hecnet mail still alive? --> silence

by R.Voorhorst＠swabhawat.com

Ok, thanks. I asked because I saw no Hecnet internet mails since 1-dec-2021 and such a silence is (highly?) unusual . :) Reindert From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of R. Voorhorst Sent: Sunday, 05 December, 2021 17:04 To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: [HECnet] Hecnet mail still alive?

4 years

Hecnet mail still alive?

by R.Voorhorst＠swabhawat.com

4 years

req for assistance: is snmp blocked for some / all ? does it work?

by supratim＠riseup.net

Hi, SNMP access to my Cisco works for me but does not seem to work for some others. I am wondering if it might be possible for others who have snmpwalk installed to issue the following and see if it returns the dnAreaTable part of the MIB. Thanks in advance. *snmpwalk -v2c -c foobar hecnet-us-east-gw.duckdns.org 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.3.1.26* Regards, Supratim* *

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