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by williams.dan＠gmail.com

Hi, So I bought it, as Mark had found another one. Only thing is it doesn't seem to be working. Anyone got any experience with these. I have found a few manuals online but they all refer to a Technical Manual which I can't find anywhere. It starts up with just the Power light on, the 2nd Light does not come on, which is supposed to indicate self test is OK. The network light flashes with network activity. I have a had a cursory glance inside. Everything is connected, nothing blown up or melted. There is nothing at all on the 1st serial port. I've tried resetting to defaults with the reset button and nothing. The guy I got it from said it was working when powered down. Anyone got any clues ?

12 years, 8 months

Area 7 (non) changes

by jg＠jordi.guillaumes.name

Hello, list. I've move some simulated machines to my brand new raspberry PI :). Now these systems: - BITXOO (7.61, VMS 4.7, Area router) - BITXOR (7.71, RSX11-M+) - BITXOV (7.60, VMS 7.3) reside in that little thingy :). The three are running at the same time (mostly idle otoh...). There should be no external effect, unless I am so silly to try to boot up the old "copy" of those machines. For general information and amusement, I downloaded simh from the git repository, apt-get installed the network prerreq packages (basically the vde2 and the libpcap stuff) and built 3.9 from sources. It toke a little bit of time (the raspberry is not a lightning fast machine...), but everything built OK, no trouble, no hassle... I used the VDE setup I described in my blog, with no problems either. So I've sucumbed to the raspberry virus too... :) Jordi Guillaumes i Pons jg at jordi.guillaumes.name HECnet: BITXOV::JGUILLAUMES

12 years, 8 months

SIMH IDLE (again)

by robert.jarratt＠ntlworld.com

Very keen to hear what you make of the user mode routing when you try it out. Let me know. Thanks Rob -----Original Message----- From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Brian Hechinger Sent: 16 September 2012 18:57 To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: [HECnet] SIMH IDLE (again) Ok, I got my main server rebuilt and so it's time to run some simh for testing (particularly the new user mode routing stuff). However, I'm still fighting this: wonko at zaphod$ BIN/vax VAX simulator V3.9-0 sim> set cpu idle Command not allowed sim> set cpu idle=VAX Invalid argument sim> I'd really like for IDLE to work so I can run several copies of simh without nuking my CPUs. Thoughts? wonko at zaphod$ uname -a SunOS zaphod 5.11 oi_151a5 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris -brian

12 years, 8 months

SIMH IDLE (again)

by HECNET＠beyondthepale.ie

Ok, I got my main server rebuilt and so it's time to run some simh for testing (particularly the new user mode routing stuff). However, I'm still fighting this: wonko at zaphod$ BIN/vax VAX simulator V3.9-0 sim> set cpu idle Command not allowed sim> set cpu idle=VAX Invalid argument sim> I'd really like for IDLE to work so I can run several copies of simh without nuking my CPUs. Thoughts? I'm running the same version of simh under Alpha VMS 8.2 on an Alphaserver 800 and Alpha VMS 7.3-1 on an Alphaserver 1000A. set cpu idle works fine for me (however, set cpu idle=VAX is not correct - it should be set cpu idle=VMS). $ run [-.bin]VAX-AXP-NOASYNCH VAX simulator V3.9-0 sim> show cpu CPU, idle disabled, 16MB, HALT to SIMH sim> set cpu idle sim> show cpu CPU, idle=VMS, idle enabled, stability wait = 20s, 16MB, HALT to SIMH sim> set cpu idle=vms sim> show cpu CPU, idle=VMS, idle enabled, stability wait = 20s, 16MB, HALT to SIMH sim> Perhaps there is a host platform specific problem with set cpu idle? I would also like to run multible instances of simh. This works fine for me as long as only one of them tries to do networking. Once I attempt to start networking on a second instance, the networking on the first instance stops working. This makes it difficult to run a vaxcluster on my alpha :-( Regards, Peter Coghlan.

12 years, 8 months

SIMH IDLE (again)

by wonko＠4amlunch.net

12 years, 8 months

LEGATO down today

by bob＠jfcl.com

LEGATO will be down for a few hours today while I move some stuff around. It ll be back this afternoon (California time, that is). Bob

12 years, 8 months

Understanding Default Accounts

by jg＠jordi.guillaumes.name

IIRC object-specific default accounts (for FAL, PHONE and so on) appeared in version 5.0. In previous versions the setup command procedure just asked for the DECNET account. Jordi Guillaumes i Pons Barcelona - Catalunya - Europa El 15/09/2012, a les 21:00, Peter Coghlan <HECNET at beyondthepale.ie> va escriure: I don't have a good understanding of default accounts when using NETCONFIG. I would like to allow people to list files in a specific directory (DIR NODE::), PHONE me and MAIL me. Does this mean I need to specify default accounts for FAL, MAIL and PHONE? If so, what is the purpose of the "Default DECnet account", which is the first of the questions in the sequence below: My understanding of it (which might not be correct) is that the default FAL account is used if someone remote does not specify a username and password when doing a file access on your machine, the default PHONE account is used when someone remote PHONEs your machine without specifying a username and password and the default MAIL account is used when someone remotely sends MAIL-11 mail to your machine without specifying a username and password (Is it even possible to specify a username and password with PHONE and MAIL?) So for example, files which FAL$SERVER has rights to access will be made available to anyone who remotely tries to access them without their having to specify a valid username and password on your machine. If no username and password is specified by someone attempting to access anything remotely on your machine and no suitable default account is available for the activity in question, the default DECnet account will then be used if available. Therefore (I think) the default DECnet account is a catchall and if you have one, you are granting anyone remote from your machine, some level of access to all DECnet services on your machine. I can't see any real use for it except for people who are too lazy to set up the other few default accounts that they really want which offer finer control over what services are made available remotely. I seem to remember default DECnet accounts going out of favour and being regarded as a security risk. (In addition to default accounts, default proxies also come into play here but I thought it better not to further complicate things by mentioning them...) Regards, Peter Coghlan.

12 years, 8 months

Understanding Default Accounts

by HECNET＠beyondthepale.ie

I don't have a good understanding of default accounts when using NETCONFIG. I would like to allow people to list files in a specific directory (DIR NODE::), PHONE me and MAIL me. Does this mean I need to specify default accounts for FAL, MAIL and PHONE? If so, what is the purpose of the "Default DECnet account", which is the first of the questions in the sequence below: My understanding of it (which might not be correct) is that the default FAL account is used if someone remote does not specify a username and password when doing a file access on your machine, the default PHONE account is used when someone remote PHONEs your machine without specifying a username and password and the default MAIL account is used when someone remotely sends MAIL-11 mail to your machine without specifying a username and password (Is it even possible to specify a username and password with PHONE and MAIL?) So for example, files which FAL$SERVER has rights to access will be made available to anyone who remotely tries to access them without their having to specify a valid username and password on your machine. If no username and password is specified by someone attempting to access anything remotely on your machine and no suitable default account is available for the activity in question, the default DECnet account will then be used if available. Therefore (I think) the default DECnet account is a catchall and if you have one, you are granting anyone remote from your machine, some level of access to all DECnet services on your machine. I can't see any real use for it except for people who are too lazy to set up the other few default accounts that they really want which offer finer control over what services are made available remotely. I seem to remember default DECnet accounts going out of favour and being regarded as a security risk. (In addition to default accounts, default proxies also come into play here but I thought it better not to further complicate things by mentioning them...) Regards, Peter Coghlan.

12 years, 8 months

Understanding Default Accounts

by robert.jarratt＠ntlworld.com

I don t have a good understanding of default accounts when using NETCONFIG. I would like to allow people to list files in a specific directory (DIR NODE::), PHONE me and MAIL me. Does this mean I need to specify default accounts for FAL, MAIL and PHONE? If so, what is the purpose of the Default DECnet account , which is the first of the questions in the sequence below: Do you want a default DECnet account? [NO]: yes Do you want default access to the TASK object disabled? [YES]: Do you want a default account for the MAIL object? [YES]: Do you want a default account for the FAL object? [NO]: yes Do you want a default account for the PHONE object? [YES]: Do you want a default account for the NML object? [YES]: Regards Rob

12 years, 8 months

Second Alpha Release of User Mode DECnet Router

by robert.jarratt＠ntlworld.com

And the link is https://route20.codeplex.com/ From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Rob Jarratt Sent: 15 September 2012 08:11 To: hecnet at update.uu.se Subject: [HECnet] Second Alpha Release of User Mode DECnet Router This second alpha release fixes some bugs and limitations. It has been tested in two DECnet areas and seems to be stable enough for more extensive testing. Interested in any and all feedback. Regards Rob

12 years, 8 months

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