I'm not sure if my IP address changes or not, but if you're willing we
can try setting it up and see if things work :)
Your IP address is between you and your ISP (and whatever other routers and networking hardware you have at your site). Multinet has to be configured to play correctly with all of that, but that's all up to you.
Have you tested your Multinet installation to be sure it's working ? I.e. can you ping google.com?
And have you configured your DECnet already? What did you use for a node name and address?
Bob
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Bob Armstrong <bob at jfcl.com> wrote:
John Floren [slawmaster at gmail.com] wrote:
I'd be interested in connecting my Alphastation with Multinet, if
possible. I've got cable internet and all my machines are behind a
router... pointers and directions would be appreciated!
We don't have a guide to doing this; perhaps if I talk you thru it you'll write one for us.
The first step is to download and install Multinet -
http://www.process.com/openvms/hobbyist.html
Bob
Multinet downloaded and installed, Captain!
I'm not sure if my IP address changes or not, but if you're willing we
can try setting it up and see if things work :)
John
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http://www.avanthar.com:8080/nodes/
seems to not be working to list currently active HECnet nodes.
Assuming you have a VMS, RSX or RSTS system AND your node is a routing
node (and your local node database is up to date), you can do
NCP SHOW ACTIVE NODES
to see the nodes that are adjacent to you. You can also do
NCP SHOW KNOWN NODES
to see the up/down (reachable or unreachable) status of every node.
Unfortunately if your node is NOT a routing node then this won't tell you
anything useful. BUT, don't despair - in that case you can ask your
favorite routing node to tell you. On your machine you can say -
NCP TELL LEGATO SHOW KNOWN NODES
and this will actually send the command from your node to NML ("Network
Management Listener") on LEGATO to be executed. You'll see the nodes that
LEGATO thinks are currently up. This will work on any target node where the
owner has been kind enough to enable the default DECnet account, e.g. MIM,
and probably most others too.
Bob
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Bob Armstrong wrote:
Your safest bet would be to either re-do the VMS install, this time w/o
UCX, or try uninstalling UCX first.
I'm going to try uninstalling UCX. I've done too much configuring and customizing on this puppy to reinstall OpenVMS. :)
Fred
pardon this question but will installing Multinet "upgrade" me
from HP TCP/IP or will it work in conjunction
I've never tried installing both at the same time, but I doubt that
they'll be happy together.
Usually, I just never install UCX (aka HP TCP/IP services for VMS) when
I'm planning to use Multinet.
Your safest bet would be to either re-do the VMS install, this time w/o
UCX, or try uninstalling UCX first.
Bob
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Bob Armstrong wrote:
The first step is to download and install Multinet -
http://www.process.com/openvms/hobbyist.html
Speaking of Multinet, I've got my Hobbyist License and /register'ed it and /load'ed it. Got the savesets in a directory ready to install, but I thought of something - probably should do this from the console, and in addition - pardon this question but will installing Multinet "upgrade" me from HP TCP/IP or will it work in conjunction? I've never been on this side of OpenVMS before, normally I just run the system that's already been prepared for me on the application side ... :-/
Cheers,
Fred
John Floren [slawmaster at gmail.com] wrote:
I'd be interested in connecting my Alphastation with Multinet, if
possible. I've got cable internet and all my machines are behind a
router... pointers and directions would be appreciated!
We don't have a guide to doing this; perhaps if I talk you thru it you'll write one for us.
The first step is to download and install Multinet -
http://www.process.com/openvms/hobbyist.html
Bob
http://www.avanthar.com:8080/nodes/
seems to not be working to list currently active HECnet nodes.
My area router is down, and as I am getting ready to move, I think it will
be a minimum of 2-4 weeks before I get it back online. It went down due to
"screaming bearings". It is a VAXstation 4000/vlc, and I'll likely look
into ways to quiet it down and set things up so I can swap in either a
VAXstation 4000/60 or /90.
Though I should see if it has sat long enough to quiet down... As crazy as
it might sound, it fixed itself the last time.
Zane
On Wed, 2008-08-20 08:16:57 Johnny Billquist wrote:
Hmm. Is this the same machine as is running the bridge?
Johnny
Yes, is that a problem?
Could very well be. The problem is that the bridge program cannot
exactly feed the ethernet input on the same machine as it is running,
nor hear data sent out on the ethernet port of the same machine. That
is, unless the hardware will do this for you. Some hardware do, but most
don't. So you don't see your own data, which makes it impossible for my
bridge program to handle the machine it itself is running on.
Johnny
I think I separated the bridge and linuxDECnet dnetd
onto separate NICs so they can see each other...
dnetinfo shows:
The next hop to the nearest area router is node 0.0
Node Cost Hops Next hop to node
1.10 4 1 if0 -> 1.266
1.500 kahea 0 0 lo -> 1.500 kahea
but I don't seem to see any neighbors, so maybe still not right.
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On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Bob Armstrong <bob at jfcl.com> wrote:
Fred wrote:
that is runinng DECNet over IP
that could allow me onto the network.
There are several ways to do DECnet over IP, including Multinet, Johnny's
bridge program, certain models of Cisco routers, and Linux DECnet, plus
maybe more that I don't know about. Unfortunately none of them are really
compatible, so you'll have to say which one you want to use before we can
help.
If you're using Multinet, then I'll be glad to connect you.
BTW, I notice your "dyndns" address - most of these aren't really usable
unless you have a static IP. All these connection methods are based on
actual IPs and not DNS entries, so anytime your dynamic IP changed the guy
at the other end of your tunnel would have to reconfigure your connection.
That gets old pretty fast.
Bob
I'd be interested in connecting my Alphastation with Multinet, if
possible. I've got cable internet and all my machines are behind a
router... pointers and directions would be appreciated!
John
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