Sorry for the delay in replying, I have been away. My friend was going to
announce it, but I can't remember if he did so. I will check with him. Note
that I have only tested it with versions 4 and 5 of VMS, so I cannot say if
it will work with RSTS/E.
Regards
Rob
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE]
On Behalf Of Mark Abene
Sent: 01 January 2012 23:06
To: hecnet at update.uu.se
Subject: Re: [HECnet] Hecnet and DDCMP
Jarratt, did you make this publicly available on the SIMH list? It would
be great
to have a DMC11 device emulated, since I insist on running RSTS/E v8 (for
historical reasons... it was the last real RSTS before "the pollution").
RSTS/E v8
doesn't have ethernet support, so the only way I could have DECnet is via
a
(previously unemulated)
DMC11 interface. Does yours work well?
-Mark
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 3:23 AM, Jarratt RMA <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com>
wrote:
Working with a friend, I have written a SIMH emulation of the DMC11
device, so you can do this with SIMH. It tunnels the bytes sent
to/from the device over a socket. We have used the SIMH emulation to
connect my friend to HECnet over a (simulated) DMC11.
The bit I am not entirely sure about is to what extent this is using
DDCMP as I don't have a full understanding of DDCMP.
Regards
Rob
On 31 December 2011 18:46, The Presence <tpresence at hotmail.com>
wrote:
Hey guys,
Has anyone worked out a mechanism to connect a node to hecnet using
DDCMP?
Perhaps some tunneling technology over IP, or virtualized serial?
Kevin
On 03/01/12 22:41, Mark Benson wrote:
Area 6 should now be operational again.
Can someone (preferably Chrissie and someone else) test it out?
it seems to be working fine for me :)
Chrissie
Jarrat mentioned his simulated DMC11 for SIMH allowed him to connect a
friend to HECnet. This is all I'm after for my SIMH RSTS/E v8 setup,
since it currently has no other connectivity options. With a
simulated DMC11 I would be able to connect it to HECnet and give a lot
more people access to it.
-Mark
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 4:18 PM, <Paul_Koning at dell.com> wrote:
DMC-11 speaks DDCMP V3.1 (give or take some bugs in the "high speed" version). But that's sync only. Depending on what you want to talk to, a DMC (or its relatives DMR-11, DMP-11, or DMV-11) may not help; if the other end speaks DDCMP over an async link (UART) then it won't work because the character framing doesn't match.
That said, I wonder what it means to emulate a DMC-11. You could have it speak DDCMP over a UART, or something else entirely. If the former it would talk to another DDCMP node; if the latter it would not but it would still work for tying one emulated DMC-11 to another.
If you want DDCMP, one approach is to get a copy of the spec, and implement what it says. That works; it is how I implemented DDCMP support for RSTS V10 (based on an earlier version based on V9.6). The protocol is quite simple and the spec is well enough written that, if you do what it says, the result WILL interoperate with hardware such as the DMR-11. The only tricky one is the DMC-11 because it has some undocumented bugs; the main one I remember is that the high speed version can't handle back to back packets. I wish I could contribute the code I wrote but I can't, for various reasons one of them is that it's a RSTS device driver and written in 100% assembly language.
It would not be hard to do a version for other platforms; I once looked at a Linux terminal protocol handler (forgot what that is called) that could hook into DECnet/Linux. Didn't get far enough on that, though.
paul
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Mark Abene
Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2012 6:06 PM
To: hecnet at update.uu.se
Subject: Re: [HECnet] Hecnet and DDCMP
Jarratt, did you make this publicly available on the SIMH list? It would be great to have a DMC11 device emulated, since I insist on running RSTS/E v8 (for historical reasons... it was the last real RSTS before "the pollution"). RSTS/E v8 doesn't have ethernet support, so the only way I could have DECnet is via a (previously unemulated)
DMC11 interface. Does yours work well?
-Mark
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 3:23 AM, Jarratt RMA <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com> wrote:
Working with a friend, I have written a SIMH emulation of the DMC11
device, so you can do this with SIMH. It tunnels the bytes sent
to/from the device over a socket. We have used the SIMH emulation to
connect my friend to HECnet over a (simulated) DMC11.
The bit I am not entirely sure about is to what extent this is using
DDCMP as I don't have a full understanding of DDCMP.
Regards
Rob
On 31 December 2011 18:46, The Presence <tpresence at hotmail.com> wrote:
Hey guys,
Has anyone worked out a mechanism to connect a node to hecnet using DDCMP?
Perhaps some tunneling technology over IP, or virtualized serial?
Kevin
On 3 Jan 2012, at 22:59, Steve Davidson wrote:
Check your email on STAR69::MARK
You should have a reply. Suffice to say yeah I think it's working :)
--
Mark Benson
http://DECtec.info
Twitter: @DECtecInfo
HECnet: STAR69::MARK
Online Resource & Mailing List for DEC Enthusiasts.
Check your email on STAR69::MARK
-Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On
Behalf Of Mark Benson
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 5:42 PM
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: [HECnet] Re: Area 6 works
Area 6 should now be operational again.
Can someone (preferably Chrissie and someone else) test it out?
--
Mark Benson
http://DECtec.info
Twitter: @DECtecInfo
HECnet: STAR69::MARK
Online Resource & Mailing List for DEC Enthusiasts.
I can do mc ncp set exec node star69
And that works
Set host: no account that wworks
Dir star69:: login information ibalid at remote node.
All this from ozon (44.43)
Hans
------Origineel bericht------
Van: Mark Benson
Afzender: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Aan: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Beantwoorden: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Onderwerp: [HECnet] Re: Area 6 works
Verzonden: 3 januari 2012 23:41
Area 6 should now be operational again.
Can someone (preferably Chrissie and someone else) test it out?
--
Mark Benson
http://DECtec.info
Twitter: @DECtecInfo
HECnet: STAR69::MARK
Online Resource & Mailing List for DEC Enthusiasts.
What node in particular?
------Origineel bericht------
Van: Mark Benson
Afzender: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Aan: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Beantwoorden: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Onderwerp: [HECnet] Re: Area 6 works
Verzonden: 3 januari 2012 23:41
Area 6 should now be operational again.
Can someone (preferably Chrissie and someone else) test it out?
--
Mark Benson
http://DECtec.info
Twitter: @DECtecInfo
HECnet: STAR69::MARK
Online Resource & Mailing List for DEC Enthusiasts.
Area 6 should now be operational again.
Can someone (preferably Chrissie and someone else) test it out?
--
Mark Benson
http://DECtec.info
Twitter: @DECtecInfo
HECnet: STAR69::MARK
Online Resource & Mailing List for DEC Enthusiasts.
DMC-11 speaks DDCMP V3.1 (give or take some bugs in the "high speed" version). But that's sync only. Depending on what you want to talk to, a DMC (or its relatives DMR-11, DMP-11, or DMV-11) may not help; if the other end speaks DDCMP over an async link (UART) then it won't work because the character framing doesn't match.
That said, I wonder what it means to emulate a DMC-11. You could have it speak DDCMP over a UART, or something else entirely. If the former it would talk to another DDCMP node; if the latter it would not but it would still work for tying one emulated DMC-11 to another.
If you want DDCMP, one approach is to get a copy of the spec, and implement what it says. That works; it is how I implemented DDCMP support for RSTS V10 (based on an earlier version based on V9.6). The protocol is quite simple and the spec is well enough written that, if you do what it says, the result WILL interoperate with hardware such as the DMR-11. The only tricky one is the DMC-11 because it has some undocumented bugs; the main one I remember is that the high speed version can't handle back to back packets. I wish I could contribute the code I wrote but I can't, for various reasons one of them is that it's a RSTS device driver and written in 100% assembly language.
It would not be hard to do a version for other platforms; I once looked at a Linux terminal protocol handler (forgot what that is called) that could hook into DECnet/Linux. Didn't get far enough on that, though.
paul
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Mark Abene
Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2012 6:06 PM
To: hecnet at update.uu.se
Subject: Re: [HECnet] Hecnet and DDCMP
Jarratt, did you make this publicly available on the SIMH list? It would be great to have a DMC11 device emulated, since I insist on running RSTS/E v8 (for historical reasons... it was the last real RSTS before "the pollution"). RSTS/E v8 doesn't have ethernet support, so the only way I could have DECnet is via a (previously unemulated)
DMC11 interface. Does yours work well?
-Mark
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 3:23 AM, Jarratt RMA <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com> wrote:
Working with a friend, I have written a SIMH emulation of the DMC11
device, so you can do this with SIMH. It tunnels the bytes sent
to/from the device over a socket. We have used the SIMH emulation to
connect my friend to HECnet over a (simulated) DMC11.
The bit I am not entirely sure about is to what extent this is using
DDCMP as I don't have a full understanding of DDCMP.
Regards
Rob
On 31 December 2011 18:46, The Presence <tpresence at hotmail.com> wrote:
Hey guys,
Has anyone worked out a mechanism to connect a node to hecnet using DDCMP?
Perhaps some tunneling technology over IP, or virtualized serial?
Kevin
FWIW, those of us working on DECnet were familiar with Malamud's work and would, when feeling very charitable, describe it as "mediocre".
Part of it are probably reasonably accurate. On the other hand, if you can find the books DEC published on the subject, you'd get material that's far more accurate and far better written.
paul
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Pinocchio
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 4:05 PM
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: [HECnet] Found free good DECnet books
Hi all!
Recently, while searching for good DNA and DECnet source (besides ODL) I found two wonderful books freely and completely available to anyone via Google Books:
1) McGraw-Hill 1989, Malamud, DEC networks and architectures
http://books.google.com/books?id=0CciAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=uk
2) VNR 1991, Malamud, Analyzing DECnet OSI phase V
http://books.google.com/books?id=fPJSAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=uk
