I have finally managed to get my machine to talk to HECnet, unfortunately I can only access remote machines by their numeric address, not by node name.
I am running DECnet-Plus on OpenVMS 8.3, with the name resolution set to local. Any idea how I can get this to resolve PhaseIV addresses?
Sampsa
A friend of mine was giving away some AlphaServer DS20E (it s a long story :-). It s hardly even an antique, being less than ten years old, but on a whim I decided to take one.
I m glad I did; it s a really nice server. Works great, has four 9.1Gb 10K SCSI drives (sadly mine doesn t have the 6 slot SCSI chassis), and 4Gb of DRAM. Yes, 4Gb of RAM; that s a lot for a 2000 vintage machine. I m tempted load OpenVMS 8.3 and use it to replace LEGATO, if I can afford the approximately 300kWh/month electric bill.
Unfortunately the machines were the rack mount configuration and are for some reason missing their faceplates, and it s kind of ugly. Does anybody have an extra DS20 faceplate that they can spare? Even better would be a set of floor pedestal skins for the DS20.
Thanks,
Bob
Johnny Billquist wrote:
Top posting, to keep it short.
I could place one of those Ciscos at Update.
I have one for you, I just forgot to send it out. It's already loaded with the DECnet area routing package.
Send me your address again, and I promise to send it out this week.
Peace... Sridhar
Bob Armstrong wrote:
My new IP address is 82.8.22.230
Ok, done.
I'll keep chrissie.homelinux.net up to date if that helps.
Unfortunately neither my router nor Multinet can use DNS to generate rules
- the IP has to be put in manually.
Yes, I know that about multinet, annoying isn't it!
Just to give advance warning, I'll be away from the 20th to the 26th July, so Zarqon will be offline then too. If the weather stays as it is, he will be back on soon after I get back though.
Chrissie
Top posting, to keep it short.
I could place one of those Ciscos at Update.
Johnny
Peter Lothberg wrote:
I have some 2501 routers, loaded with a "special" version of SW. They have
1 ethernet port, two serial and console and AUX (can do slip/ppp) ports.
I'm naove - if they have only one Ethernet port, would that be for the
local network side? What would you do then for the Internet, "upstream"
side?
You put your DECnet native spekaing nodes on the same thernet segment
that you someohow can send packets to the outside world from, where
you plug your single router ethernet.
decnet routing 59.56
decnet node-type area
!
interface Ethernet0
ip address 192.108.200.213 255.255.255.248
no ip directed-broadcast
logging event subif-link-status
decnet cost 15
!
interface Tunnel3000
no ip address
logging event subif-link-status
decnet cost 15
tunnel source 192.108.200.213
tunnel destination 199.0.131.2
!
I'll give them away to people who can be gateways to the 'Ethernet bridge"
part of HECnet....
Will these talk to anything else (for DECnet bridging purposes, that is)
other than another Cisco router?
They talk to any DECnet thing on the ethernet native, it can be a area
router and it talks DECnet in IP/GRE tunnel to another cisco box.
P.S. Are you going to be in town for DCL this Saturday?
No, I'm getting back to the valley on Tuesday. Now, I plan to do the September DCL.
-Peter
I have some 2501 routers, loaded with a "special" version of SW. They have
1 ethernet port, two serial and console and AUX (can do slip/ppp) ports.
I'm naove - if they have only one Ethernet port, would that be for the
local network side? What would you do then for the Internet, "upstream"
side?
You put your DECnet native spekaing nodes on the same thernet segment
that you someohow can send packets to the outside world from, where
you plug your single router ethernet.
decnet routing 59.56
decnet node-type area
!
interface Ethernet0
ip address 192.108.200.213 255.255.255.248
no ip directed-broadcast
logging event subif-link-status
decnet cost 15
!
interface Tunnel3000
no ip address
logging event subif-link-status
decnet cost 15
tunnel source 192.108.200.213
tunnel destination 199.0.131.2
!
I'll give them away to people who can be gateways to the 'Ethernet bridge"
part of HECnet....
Will these talk to anything else (for DECnet bridging purposes, that is)
other than another Cisco router?
They talk to any DECnet thing on the ethernet native, it can be a area
router and it talks DECnet in IP/GRE tunnel to another cisco box.
P.S. Are you going to be in town for DCL this Saturday?
No, I'm getting back to the valley on Tuesday.
Now, I plan to do the September DCL.
-Peter
My new IP address is 82.8.22.230
Ok, done.
I'll keep chrissie.homelinux.net up to date if that helps.
Unfortunately neither my router nor Multinet can use DNS to generate rules
- the IP has to be put in manually.
Bob
Sorry folks, my IP address changed again. I just powered up Zarqon (we're having a cold summer here!) and it's not talking to anything.
My new IP address is 82.8.22.230
I'll keep chrissie.homelinux.net up to date if that helps. If you're using home.tykepenguin.com then be aware that I'm going to let it expire in October. So it'll probably end up as a porn site ;-)
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Chrissie
At 9:55 AM +0100 7/5/08, Christine Caulfield wrote:
Zane H. Healy wrote:
I brought PDXVAX up just now to discover two different problems, one is that bearings are acting up on one or more of the fans for my VAXstation 4000/vlc,
Yours too eh?
This is actually the second time I've had this problem, the last time as I recall, after being down for a few months, I tried upgrading to either my Model 60 or Model 90, only to discover it wouldn't really fit, AND than the VLC had stopped howling.
I really need to figure out some kind of noise enclosure for our Dining Room that will allow proper cooling of the hardware! I'm getting sick of the noise that the two 3-drive JBOD boxes with 10,000RPM SCSI drives make, and the XP1000 they're connected to is just about as noisy. :^( The fact that she hasn't complained about the noise goes to show just how understanding of a wife I have!
Zane
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Zane H. Healy wrote:
I brought PDXVAX up just now to discover two different problems, one is that bearings are acting up on one or more of the fans for my VAXstation 4000/vlc,
Yours too eh?
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Chrissie