There are some services available on Phase V which aren't on Phase IV like DECnet-over-IP, DTSS and a few others. If you like to use those, then Phase V is your choice.Personally I use Phase V on most Alphas and on bigger VAXen. Others run Phase IV.KariSent from Samsung tablet.
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From: Steve Davidson <steve at davidson.net>
Date: 2/18/19 18:42 (GMT+02:00)
To: HECnet Distribution List <hecnet at Update.UU.SE>
Subject: [HECnet] DECnet Phase-V usage within HECnet
Anyone using DECnet Phase-V on VAX/VMS V7.3 in the HECnet community?I am rebuilding SGC::.? It is MUCH bigger and faster so I may go the Phase-V route if it has any real value.? Comments?Thanks!-Steve
Hi everyone,
I've some across a bit of a problem and was hoping that someone else here
has either experienced it or is able to have a clue as to what is going on.
I run a Cisco 1841 (a12rtr) here which is my link to the HECnet. This is
established with three GRE tunnels to area 22, 61 and 42. This router is
inside a network that is edged with a Cisco ASA (gatekeeper). The router
a12rtr also has other GRE tunnels and 6in4 tunnels.
All tunnels are established and traffic is flowing over the ipv4 and ipv6
tunnels without issue. There is also traffic flowing over the DECnet
tunnels as well. However...
Despite having adjacencies for the three DECnet routers on the other end of
the DECnet tunnels, my routing table is not filling up.
Area Cost Hops Next Hop to Node Expires Prio
*12 0 0 (Local) -> A12RTR
Node Cost Hops Next Hop to Node Expires Prio
*(Area) 0 0 (Local) -> A12RTR
*BENDER 10 1 FastEthernet0/1 -> BENDER 60
*TRON 10 1 FastEthernet0/1 -> TRON 99
*ELYSIM 10 1 FastEthernet0/1 -> ELYSIM 1525
*A12RTR 0 0 (Local) -> A12RTR
a12rtr#show decnet neighbors
Net Node Interface MAC address Flags
0 22.1023 Tunnel58 0000.0000.0000 A
0 42.1022 Tunnel51 0000.0000.0000 A
0 61.1023 Tunnel53 0000.0000.0000 A
0 12.2 FastEthernet0/1 aa00.0400.0230
0 12.3 FastEthernet0/1 aa00.0400.0330
0 12.12 FastEthernet0/1 aa00.0400.0c30
I can also see that the routers are communicating when I switch on debug:
*Feb 15 04:19:37.007: DNET-ADJ: Endnode hello from 12.3
*Feb 15 04:19:39.835: DNET-ADJ: Level 2 hello from 42.1022
*Feb 15 04:19:39.835: DNET-ADJ: Level 2 (IV+) hello from 42.1022
*Feb 15 04:19:43.207: DNET-ADJ: Endnode hello from 12.2
*Feb 15 04:19:45.211: DNET-ADJ: Level 2 hello from 61.1023
*Feb 15 04:19:45.211: DNET-ADJ: Level 2 (IV+) hello from 61.1023
*Feb 15 04:19:46.315: DNET-ADJ: Level 2 hello from 22.1023
*Feb 15 04:19:46.315: DNET-ADJ: Level 2 (IV+) hello from 22.1023
So, I am a bit confused as to why there is no routing being exchanged. Is
this just a bug and I need to give the router a reboot (it has only been up
for 6 days).?
I did notice this:
a12rtr#show decnet database
Area/Node Cost Hops Next Hop to Node Status
12 0 0 (Local) -> A12RTR Active
22 20 1 Tunnel58 -> 22.1023 Backup
42 20 1 Tunnel51 -> 42.1022 Backup
61 20 1 Tunnel53 -> 61.1023 Backup
BENDER 10 1 FastEthernet0/1 -> BENDER Active
TRON 10 1 FastEthernet0/1 -> TRON Active
ELYSIM 10 1 FastEthernet0/1 -> ELYSIM Active
A12RTR 0 0 (Local) -> A12RTR Active
The tunnels are all listed as "backup". I've tried a lot of different
things and I'm still experimenting, but I still don't have an answer.
Despite a very long time working with this stuff I've never encountered a
situation where the routing table did not populate.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated :-)
Regards, Tim.
What is the simplest PDP-11 CPU/peripheral design that is capable of
running RSX-11, RSTS/E or BSD?
Also, what is the minimum disk space needed to install those operating
systems? I have a plan. Probably not a good one but I'll likely learn a lot
in the the process so it won't be a waste of time.
-brian
Hi HECnet,
I am wondering if people could help me out please and do a search on
your VAX systems (VMS or Unix) and see if you get a hit for any of the
following paths/names. These files will form MLkit which is an early
implementation of the ML programming language written in Pascal. It is
a tricky string to search for these days online since it collides with
MachineLearning.
Paths to search for:
/usr/bin/ml
/usr/lib/ml/mlsys
/usr/lib/ml/lib.ml
mlkit
VMS might have similar names (mlsys, ml, mlkit) but in a single level directory.
thanks,
nigel.
Time for a new release announcement of TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS.
Highlights:
This release has many performance improvements at the TCP level, support
for new languages, improvements in various tools and libraries, and some
functional improvements at protocol level.
Detailed information on things that have been done since the last release:
Documentation:
. Added information on performance issues with XEDRV ethernet driver
provided with RSX for non-DECnet systems.
. Updated documentation with new functions and language libraries.
Interfaces:
. Changed default number of receives issues by ETHACP to 6.
. Added SET IFn: RECEIVE n to change how many outstanding receives
to have on ethernet interface. This is now dynamic at runtime.
TCP:
. Added rejection counting for SYN packets to ports with
no listeners.
. Bugfix. MSS should never be larger than the buffer size in TCP.
. Correct TCP ACK repeat rate to also consider the buffer size.
With a small buffer, we cannot have a low ack rate.
. Improve TCP retransmission. If more than one packet is ACKed,
assume we are actually on track, and reverts to normal mode.
. If we have a socket with lots of full size packets, we
do not send window updates immediately if the window is
growing. We might as well keep the slower rate.
. Improved TCP performance at high throughput mode.
. Changed TCP receive ACK generation to do dynamic handling
of how often ACKs needs to be sent.
. Fixed TCP close function to not generate spurious packets.
. Changed TCP slow start window processing.
. Fix TCP retransmission logic. Under some circumstances, packet
only retransmitted with a delay, even though they should have
been retransmitted immediately.
. Improved TCP nagle implementation.
. Improved TCP retransmit recover logic.
. Changed TCP to allow combination of PU.TXT and PU.RXP.
. Changed TCP to start daemons with the installed default UIC.
FTP/FTPD:
. Changed FTP login routines to set system type in login routine
instead of in open routine.
. Added init file for FTP.
. Bugfix. If FTPD was requested to list files in Unix format,
and a file was protected, FTPD could crash.
. Added KEEPALIVE command to FTP.
. Changed FTP client to use nagle on command channel.
. Bugfix in FTP DIR command, which could crash with a stack corrupt.
. Bugfix in FTPD. If FTPD logs in to a directory without a FTP.TXT,
the mode of the command channel ended up wrong.
. Change FTP and FTPD to better utilize tcp high throughput mode.
. Bugfix in FTPD. Files sent to FTPD did not get the correct owner set.
RMD:
. Bugfix in RMD TCP network page. Byte counters had been changed
to 3 word fields.
Multinet:
. Bugfix in MULTINET. Some error messages was printed with a corrupt
line number.
. Changed multinet to always push tcp data.
MAILD:
. Bugfix in MAILD. Other changes had caused MAILD to not be able to
process mails with multiple recipients. MAILQUE.DAT file format had
to change, so the mail queue needs to be reinitialized.
. Added proper message id handling to MAILD.
. Improve dispay of mails when reading.
. Bugfix. Unprivileged users could not create their mailbox in MAIL.
. Improved MAIL11 receive address processing.
HTTPD:
. Added ability for CGI programs to return other than 200 status.
IRCBOT:
. Changed IRCBOT to be more efficient and sane with PUSHes.
Libraries:
. Change BQTLIB to not require privileges for isco() function from C.
. Change IPC library to include listen() as well as sgetc().
Pascal:
. Added support for Oregon Pascal-2.
XLisp:
. Added XLISP and some example programs to distribution.
As usual, the distribution is available from:
ftp://mim.update.uu.se/bqtcp.dsk
ftp://mim.update.uu.se/bqtcp.tap
ftp://ftp.update.uu.se/pub/pdp11/rsx/tcpip/tcpip.dsk
The documentation is also available through ftp on Mim, or also at
http://mim.update.uu.se/tcpipdoc
I hope people find this update useful. While there are no really
critical issues that have been solved, I still recommend people to
update, since this new version do contain improvements that are
beneficial and as far as I know there are no issues or problems updating
to this newest version.
Johnny
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
Johnny
Could you add node 44.46 name RODIUM to your list please.
It is a rebuilt AlphaServer 1200 5/400 dual cpu with 2GB main memory.
Hans
Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone
Hi,
Is there a kind soul out there who would grant me access to their (HECnet connected) Itanium-based VMS system so that I can play with some of their compilers (particularly a more modern version of Ada to that available on VMS 7.3 on VAX architecture)?
At some point, based on what I discover, I may even be tempted to buy one of the entry-level Itanium servers for real. I can't explain why I'm not that interested in Alpha other than that I'm perhaps a bit weird.
Hopefully someone can help... with the access, not the weirdness :)
Regards,
Keith
(HECnet) DUNE::SQKEITH
Hi folks,
My Raspberry Pi VAXcluster project?
(https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/retro-computing-vaxcluster-hat-wilm-boerhout/
) is now connected to HECnet.
Nodes are PIVAX0...PIVAX4 (29.200...29.204)
Nothing much to see except the cluster itself, but if you are
interested, I can set up some public access.
*Wilm*
*P.S. *The cluster is physically located in Zwolle, The Netherlands
(home location).
I just got my hands on an rx2660, and I realized to my astonishment
that I do not have a copy of VMS for the Itanium architecture. Can
anyone help me out?
Thanks,
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Hi,
I have just finished doing a bit of network cleanup on my ASA and 1841 and
noticed that a number of the HECnet GRE tunnels seems to be down or
possibly misconfigured.
I know that my IP address changed a while back as part of the transition to
Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) and my router can now be found
at 110.141.227.104. I am pretty sure that Brian sent out an update, but I'm
not sure how well it was applied.
Since changing IP addresses I've only been able to establish a tunnel
with 50.131.218.138 (area 42). However, when I attempt to ping the other
end I am unable to reach 42.1023.
After looking at my firewall logs I noticed that someone at 81.135.164.245
was attempting to establish a GRE tunnel. After looking at the existing
configuration I noticed that it was a similar address to what had been last
configured for area 22. I made the change and now I can establish a link
to area 22 and I can successfully ping 22.1023.
However, that is were it ends. I have tunnels configured for area 59, 23,
61, 9 and 52, but I have no connection to the other end. Worse, I have no
connection to the HECnet as a larger entity.
Is anyone else other than myself and Mark Darvill still using the tunnels?
If there is a lack of interest in the maintenance, I would be happy to take
it over and start running the bridge here too.
Thoughts? Anybody... :-)
Regards, Tim.
Hi HECnet,
I am scouring the Internet for DECnet documentation (I've looked in
the usual places), does anyone have any of the DECnet for DOS or
DECnet for Rainbow documentation?
DECnet-Rainbow Installation Guide
DECnet-DOS Getting Started
DECnet-DOS User's Guide
DECnet-Rainbow Release Notes
DECnet-DOS Installation Guide
Also particularly interested in the version 1.1 of the software too
(we have 1.0 but it was significantly improved/updated with 1.1).
thanks,
nigel.
Is there anyone in the UK/Europe that would be able to provide me with a
connection to HECNet via a multinet link? I'm connected off AS8676 -
the node IP is 217.65.167.14. It's not currently reachable via ICMP but
if you ping 217.65.160.9 you should get a reasonable idea of latency.
cheers, Douglas
A couple of months ago someone posted how to get the TME emulator to build
on Ubuntu 18.04. I just got a new computer and realized that I didn't
archive said instructions. I would like to set it up so that the tmesh
executable is in /usr/local/bin. I am not much of a programmer more of an
OS history enthusiast so figuring this out on my own is bit out of my
league. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Ray
MIM is in yo-yo mode right now. John Wilson is trying to work out why
the multiprocessor emulation have some issues.
Sorry for any interruption of service. This might go on for a day or so.
Johnny
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
> Since there really is a need for a tool to examine various kinds of DEC
> protocol traffic, I am trying to put one together. In case anyone is
> interested:
>
> http://https://www.pdc.kth.se/~bygg/tops/anfdump.tar
There are now some updates/bug fixes. For instance it can now handle
HECnet bridge packets (hopefully).
--Johnny
Hi,
I have a TCP (via multinet) connection to IMPVAX which is hardly ever down. It is at the moment.
Anybody else willing to give me some links to other areas?
Regards,
Keith
supratim sanyal wrote:
> Johnny,
The other Johnny will now give a short answer:
> I am suddenly seeing this from IMPVAX. Not sure what to make of this
>
> $ dir mim::
> %%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 23-OCT-2018 04:15:10.77 %%%%%%%%%%%
> Message from user DECNET on IMPVAX
> DECnet event 4.18, adjacency down
> From node 1.559 (IMPVAX), 23-OCT-2018 04:15:10.77
> Circuit TCP-0-0, Unexpected packet type, Adjacent node = 1.13 (MIM)
> Packet beginning = 010D040140020200002C010000000000
The packet in question is an init packet, used to start up a link.
If tcpdump knew about this, it would look somewhat like:
Init, 1.13 info 01 size 576 ver 2/0/0 timer 300
Why MIM decided to restart the link is another question.
--Johnny
Earlier today I wrote:
> The packet in question is an init packet, used to start up a link.
>
> If tcpdump knew about this, it would look somewhat like:
Since there really is a need for a tool to examine various kinds of DEC
protocol traffic, I am trying to put one together. In case anyone is
interested:
http://https://www.pdc.kth.se/~bygg/tops/anfdump.tar
Don't let the ANF part of the name fool you! It can do the following:
* listen for ethernet frames with ANF-10, DECnet and LAT.
* listen for DDCMP (simh-style over TCP or UDP), with decoding
of payload (ANF-10 or DECnet).
* listen for Multinet over TCP, with decoding of DECnet.
* do several of the above, in parallel, if you want to see how
a box in the middle molests your data.
* read (and write) pcap-format files.
As usual this is a work-in-progress, and some things (like the manual)
are missing, but the code mostly works. Use the -h flag for help at
this time.
--Johnny
Johnny,
I am suddenly seeing this from IMPVAX. Not sure what to make of this ?
$ dir mim::
%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 23-OCT-2018 04:15:10.77 %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user DECNET on IMPVAX
DECnet event 4.18, adjacency down
>From node 1.559 (IMPVAX), 23-OCT-2018 04:15:10.77
Circuit TCP-0-0, Unexpected packet type, Adjacent node = 1.13 (MIM)
Packet beginning = 010D040140020200002C010000000000
%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 23-OCT-2018 04:15:15.20 %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user DECNET on IMPVAX
DECnet event 4.10, circuit up
>From node 1.559 (IMPVAX), 23-OCT-2018 04:15:13.16
Circuit TCP-0-0, Adjacent node = 1.13 (MIM)
%DIRECT-E-OPENIN, error opening MIM::*.*;* as input
-RMS-E-FND, ACP file or directory lookup failed
-SYSTEM-F-UNREACHABLE, remote node is not currently reachable
Sent from Mail for Windows 10
Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> writes:
> Hey folks. I'm looking for firmware for the DECserver-550, which gets
>downloaded into the terminal server by its boot host. Does anyone here
>have a copy? (It seems I have the firmware for every DECserver except
>that..)
WWENG2.SYS? Is that right for the DS-550?
--
VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG
I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.
Does anyone have the Phase II DECnet that goes with RSTS V7.0? I think it calls itself DECnet/E V1.1, rather confusingly.
For that matter, are there any Phase II DECnet releases around? I know of the TOPS-20 one; any others? Ditto for Phase III.
paul
